First show seen on broadway?- Page 3

[Broadway Joe]

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

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

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
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[KnewItWhenIWasInFron]

Posted: 9/16/14 at 3:39pm

"The House of Blue Leaves," in 1986

[hairspraydude1962]

Posted: 9/16/14 at 3:53pm

Broadway: Hairspray (Surprise!)
Tour: Peter Pan

[JRybka]

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)

[holdmetouchme]

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?)

[peerrjb]

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.

[jwsel]

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.

[Phantom4ever]

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.

[maxkko]

Posted: 9/16/14 at 8:55pm

Cabaret

[Broadwaydreaming]

Posted: 9/16/14 at 9:57pm

Lion King 2008. I was mesmerized!

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

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

[theatregeek6]

Posted: 9/16/14 at 10:32pm

Hello Dolly with Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway in 1967

[canmark]

Posted: 9/16/14 at 10:40pm

Falsettos, John Golden Theatre (1992), followed a day later by Miss Saigon, Broadway Theatre.

[GavestonPS]

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.)

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

Posted: 9/16/14 at 10:44pm

great pair.

[KC91WFU]

Posted: 9/16/14 at 10:54pm

Billy Elliot with Trent Kowalik as Billy. I will never forget that performance.

[broadwayghost1]

Posted: 9/16/14 at 11:20pm

Annie - 1977

[rob_hanson1979]

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.

[ggersten]

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

[TheaterBoy7777]

Posted: 9/17/14 at 12:41am

Hairspray in May of 2004 with Wicked(OBC) and Little Shop of Horrors the following day

[delongpre]

Posted: 9/17/14 at 1:38am

It's a Bird......It's a Plane...It's Superman 1966

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 9/17/14 at 1:56am

Phantom Of The Opera was lucking enough to see the final Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford performance

[Ranger Tom]

Posted: 9/17/14 at 2:11am

Oliver - original cast

[ajh]

Posted: 9/17/14 at 3:15am

HAIR with the original revival cast at the Al Hirschfield. Utter magic.