First show seen on broadway? — Page 5
#102
Posted: 5/17/15 at 11:38am
Broadway: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, in 1996 when it was still at the Palace.
On Tour: Aida, the first tour version.
#103
Posted: 5/17/15 at 11:40am
Mary poppins with the original cast
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
#104
Posted: 5/17/15 at 11:43am
The King and I ('96 revival with Donna Murphy) was my first Broadway show and my first tour was Grease, also sometime that year, in Providence, RI.
#105
Posted: 5/17/15 at 11:47am
South Pacific revival at Lincoln Center.
"Mr Sondheim, look: I made a hat, where there never was a hat, it's a Latin hat at that!"
#106
Posted: 5/17/15 at 12:14pm
Les Miserables in 1997...and I have seen it 16 more times (the most of any show!) in various venues since!
#107
Posted: 5/17/15 at 12:15pm
"Zorba," Imperial Theater (last row, mezz); June 1969.
First tour: First National, "My Fair Lady," Washington DC, National Theater, circa 1958
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
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#108
Posted: 5/17/15 at 12:16pm
Aspects of Love at the Broadhurst in April of 1990.
#109
Posted: 5/17/15 at 12:19pm
Broadway: Who's Life Is It Anyway (with Tom Conti)
#110
Posted: 5/17/15 at 12:56pm
I live and breath Broadway everyday. Sadly I live on the other side of the states.
L.A. tour-
Musical: Peter Pan (Cathy Rigby)
Play: End of the Rainbow (Tracie Bennett)
#111
Posted: 5/17/15 at 1:26pm
Tour [1978]:
Chicago (Verdon/Rivera)
Broadway [1979]:
(two-show day)
Evita (LuPone/Patinkin)
Sweeney Todd (Lansbury/Cariou)
I was too young to fully understand any of these shows, but their impact was nonetheless life-altering.
"Tracy... Hold Mama's waffles."
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#112
Posted: 5/17/15 at 1:35pm
The first show I ever saw was the original production of RAGTIME, and on the same trip I also saw a few other shows including the OBC of Lion King, the Cumming/Richardson Cabaret, Phantom, Rent, and Beauty & The Beast.
#113
Posted: 5/17/15 at 1:50pm
How to succeed in business
1996 with matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker as final month replacement for Megan mulally
it was absolutely wonderful and I'll never forget it...
first professional musical was first tour of a chorus line in 1976-absolutely spectacular and I was hooked for life......
#114
Posted: 5/17/15 at 2:01pm
"42nd Street" (the revival with Christine Ebersole).
#115
Posted: 5/17/15 at 2:11pm
I suppose I will be dating myself but I saw the original Chicago with Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera and Jerry Orbach. Needless to say, I was hooked from that point on.
The only review of a show that matters is your own.
#117
Posted: 5/17/15 at 3:01pm
Evita matinee, 1981. Nancy Opel as Eva. I was seven and it was all I wanted for my birthday.
#118
Posted: 5/17/15 at 3:05pm
Fiddler on the Roof….in '70, I believe. I was pretty young. Our parents took us in to visit the city from my grandparents in Connecticut.
#121
Posted: 5/17/15 at 4:43pm
Oh my gosh, this is a delightful thread!
My first Broadway show was May or June of 1998. The commercial transfer of Roundabout's 1776 revival. Gershwin Theatre. I was in 5th grade, I remember sitting separate from my classmates, with my mother, down at the front of the house. I, sadly, can't remember much of the show itself -- but, that curtain call? Oh, my. My mother turned to me and said, "Michael, look." and I made eye contact with Michael McCormack (John Adams), smiling down at me. I'll never forget that moment.
(My first straight play was TALK RAD!O. Wednesday, March 7, 2007. Front row center for the matinee at the Longacre. It was absolutely, positively thrilling!)
#122
Posted: 5/17/15 at 5:02pm
Not sure but either Runaways or On the Twentieth Century. I was a bit jet-lagged at the time.
#123
Posted: 5/17/15 at 5:21pm
On Tour: COMPANY (1970) with George Chakaris and Julie Wilson
On Broadway: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (July 1974, twice including the closing performance) the original cast was still performing with the exception of Len Cariou who had been replaced by William Daniels.
#124
Posted: 5/17/15 at 5:37pm
Beauty and the Beast in the very early 2000s. However I left early cuz I was so scared. I was maybe four of five and I hated loud noises and it was just so scary. When Belle's father's invention broke in the beginning and it explodes, I LOST IT! Cried the whole time. So the first full show I've seen was Matilda in 2013. It took me a while to get over my fear of loud noises lol
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