First Performance Plans

With all of these return dates being announced, I'm curious what everyone is prioritizing and excited to see first as their return to a Broadway/Off-Broadway theater.  I definitely wanted to see something on the first night, so I'll be at Wicked on 9/14.  Also booked a couple other first shows back in the following weeks.  So glad we're seeing these reopening announcements and moving toward the return of live performance.

Waitin' it out. Definitely not going on night one for anything after such a tough time.

hearthemsing22 said: "Also seeing Phantom (that moment when the chandelier rises....)"

Center orchestra, row F, October 22!

 

Indirectly related...but without skipping a beat, resales are already happening and of course it's highway robbery. Good to know, nothing has changed in that respect in a year and a half. 

When we can make our first trip back to Broadway, a lot of shows we will be seeing will be ones we would have seen on our March trip before the shutdown (Moulin Rouge, Hadestown, Company). My friend and I will also be paying a return visit to Come From Away. I will be getting myself a ticket to Phantom - Phantom was my first true Broadway show (I never count Cats, lol), and because I've since seen it half a dozen times, I always end up putting off seeing it again on Broadway in favor of newer productions. After the shutdown hit, I vowed I'd get a ticket whenever Broadway reopened. Looking forward to it. 

Can't be at any of the "first" performances, but grabbed tickets for WICKED and LITTLE SHOP in October. I could almost cry I'm so excited!

Jordan Catalano said: "For the first night, I got “Wicked” tickets. I want to be in the room to hear G(a)linda say “It’s good to see me, isn’t it?” that first time back."

Make sure you say hi, Jordan!! I’ll be there as well and will likely sob through the entire thing. 
 

I also have Little Shop tickets for 9/21 and Company for 12/20. I’m so, so, so excited.

Hamilton on 9/14
Wicked on 9/15

Definitely looking forward to getting back to the theater a few times a week this fall. I've missed it so much.

Still, it does feel very strange to be buying tickets for a large indoor gathering after having avoided all people for the last year. Hopefully by September it will be completely safe to be in close quarters with others, even masked up. I'm fully vaccinated, thankfully, and I hope the vast majority of others at the theater will be too.

Been refreshing Ticket Master all morning for Aladdin's first show back. All other dates are on sale now but not 28th. Seems like it's being held for now.

Just seeing this thread built around the term "first performance" reminds me of WhizzerMarvin, the best reviewer in all the land. Wonder where he is?

Jordan Levinson said: "Just seeing this thread built around the term "first performance" reminds me of WhizzerMarvin, the best reviewer in all the land. Wonder where he is?"

Whizzer stopped doing reviews fall of 2019 I believe. I think the last show he did a review for was The Inheritance, and nothing since. I miss him greatly.