#51
Posted: 9/16/14 at 2:54pm
The Civil War in 1999, I don't really remember much about it but from posts I've read on here that is probably a good thing lol
First show seen on broadway? — Page 3
#52
Posted: 9/16/14 at 3:19pm
on BROADWAY...COMPANY...Summer of 1970 right after it won it's Tony awards...i would end up 2nd acting COMPANY 9 times...:)
on tour...I DO! I DO!... with Mary Martin and Robert Preston, sometime in the late 60's in Los Angeles at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion...i honestly cannot remember the year..lol
on tour...I DO! I DO!... with Mary Martin and Robert Preston, sometime in the late 60's in Los Angeles at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion...i honestly cannot remember the year..lol
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#54
Posted: 9/16/14 at 3:53pm
Broadway: Hairspray (Surprise!)
Tour: Peter Pan
Tour: Peter Pan
#55
Posted: 9/16/14 at 3:57pm
First Tour: They're Playing Our Song (San Francisco)
Broadway: A Chorus Line and/or Sophisticated Ladies. (I was 7 at the time and that was my frist time to NYC and I cannot recall which order I saw them in)
Broadway: A Chorus Line and/or Sophisticated Ladies. (I was 7 at the time and that was my frist time to NYC and I cannot recall which order I saw them in)
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#56
Posted: 9/16/14 at 4:50pm
First show on Broadway - Two Gentlemen of Verona (April 1972)
First musical production - West Side Story, Summer 1968, North Shore Music Theater
First Broadway tour - Fiddler on the Roof (1969? - Paul Lipson as Tevye?)
First musical production - West Side Story, Summer 1968, North Shore Music Theater
First Broadway tour - Fiddler on the Roof (1969? - Paul Lipson as Tevye?)
Perhaps it was not a dream.
#57
Posted: 9/16/14 at 6:19pm
I'd seen a lot of touring productions coming through Los Angeles, but my first "On Broadway" double-whammy was in December of 1971: First night in NYC, "Follies" -- Second night: "Company". Got to go backstage for both and meet some of the performers, then work with some of them on a project soon afterwards. Pretty heady for a young fellow.
#58
Posted: 9/16/14 at 7:51pm
Annie in 1977 on a family trip to New York. I was seven. Pretty much all I remember from the New York part of the trip was seeing Annie, being amazed by the inside of the Guggenheim, and my brother trying to close a murphy bed with me inside.
#59
Posted: 9/16/14 at 8:20pm
Oh all right, all right, fine. I'll be *that* guy. Why are people mentioning the first show they saw on tour? That's not Broadway. This thread is about the first Broadway show you ever saw, not the first non-Equity show that came to Bufu, Iowa and license a cardboard version of the sets used in the Broadway production.
Rant over.
First Broadway show: The Phantom of the Opera on Wednesday, December 16, 1998 at 8:00 pm.
First tour: Nobody cares. : )
First non Equity: Same.
First high school production: you get the idea?
First community theater: overkill?
First middle school: Uh-huh.
Rant over.
First Broadway show: The Phantom of the Opera on Wednesday, December 16, 1998 at 8:00 pm.
First tour: Nobody cares. : )
First non Equity: Same.
First high school production: you get the idea?
First community theater: overkill?
First middle school: Uh-huh.
#62
Posted: 9/16/14 at 10:17pm
Growing up just outside of NYC, there were school field trips four times a year for Broadway shows, and my family would go as a group to the same number. The school stuff would tend to be mid to late runs on Wednesday matinee twofers.
So, you'd see the last cast at the end of the run of Man of La Mancha after having lunch at Casa Del Sol (was that what it was called?) This repeated itself with school trips to Fiddler, The Me Nobody Knows, etc. with appropriate ethnic lunches to complete the learning experience. It was a sweet but naïve way to teach.
In any case, the funniest thing I remember was seeing Company on a school trip in the 8th grade. The parents who were chaperones freaked out at the sex and grass scenes. There was a whole to do back at school about who chose the shows for impressionable young things to see.
My first family theater experience was Follies. Smart parents
So, you'd see the last cast at the end of the run of Man of La Mancha after having lunch at Casa Del Sol (was that what it was called?) This repeated itself with school trips to Fiddler, The Me Nobody Knows, etc. with appropriate ethnic lunches to complete the learning experience. It was a sweet but naïve way to teach.
In any case, the funniest thing I remember was seeing Company on a school trip in the 8th grade. The parents who were chaperones freaked out at the sex and grass scenes. There was a whole to do back at school about who chose the shows for impressionable young things to see.
My first family theater experience was Follies. Smart parents
#63
Posted: 9/16/14 at 10:32pm
Hello Dolly with Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway in 1967
#64
Posted: 9/16/14 at 10:40pm
Falsettos, John Golden Theatre (1992), followed a day later by Miss Saigon, Broadway Theatre.
Coach Bob knew it all along: you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows. (John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire)
#65
Posted: 9/16/14 at 10:44pm
Um, the first national tour I saw was Ethel Merman and Russell Nype reprising their original roles in CALL ME, MADAM. It was 1966 or 7, and, no, it wasn't non-Equity. It was actually a major event and not just for me.
First Broadway show: COMPANY. (I saw FOLLIES the following afternoon.)
First Broadway show: COMPANY. (I saw FOLLIES the following afternoon.)
#67
Posted: 9/16/14 at 10:54pm
Billy Elliot with Trent Kowalik as Billy. I will never forget that performance.
#69
Posted: 9/16/14 at 11:30pm
The first Broadway show I saw was The Who's Tommy in Toronto.
The first show I saw on Broadway was Thoroughly Modern Millie.
The first show I saw on Broadway was Thoroughly Modern Millie.
#70
Posted: 9/17/14 at 12:15am
>on tour...I DO! I DO!... with Mary Martin and Robert Preston, sometime in the late 60's in Los Angeles at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion...i honestly cannot remember the year..lol<
Broadwaybabywannabe2 - i found the year! (But, that production may not have been a tour as some production were staged for LA CLO)
1968
Broadwaybabywannabe2 - i found the year! (But, that production may not have been a tour as some production were staged for LA CLO)
1968
#71
Posted: 9/17/14 at 12:41am
Hairspray in May of 2004 with Wicked(OBC) and Little Shop of Horrors the following day
#72
Posted: 9/17/14 at 1:38am
It's a Bird......It's a Plane...It's Superman 1966
#73
Posted: 9/17/14 at 1:56am
Phantom Of The Opera was lucking enough to see the final Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford performance
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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#75
Posted: 9/17/14 at 3:15am
HAIR with the original revival cast at the Al Hirschfield. Utter magic.
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