First show seen on broadway?- Page 5

[WSStory]

Posted: 9/20/14 at 9:27am

Grand Hotel at the Martin Beck

[Musical Master]

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.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 5/17/15 at 11:40am

Mary poppins with the original cast

[allyk]

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.

[valeposh]

Posted: 5/17/15 at 11:47am

South Pacific revival at Lincoln Center. 

[ebontoyan]

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!

[Auggie27]

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 

Updated On: 5/17/15 at 12:15 PM

[kdogg36]

Posted: 5/17/15 at 12:16pm

Aspects of Love at the Broadhurst in April of 1990.

[pc1145N2]

Posted: 5/17/15 at 12:19pm

Broadway: Who's Life Is It Anyway (with Tom Conti)

 

 

[JoseLee_]

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)

[followspot]

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.

 

Updated On: 5/17/15 at 01:26 PM

[aj88]

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.

[broadwaysfguy]

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......

[Andrew777]

Posted: 5/17/15 at 2:01pm

"42nd Street" (the revival with Christine Ebersole).

[mc1227]

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.

[jkl011]

Posted: 5/17/15 at 2:55pm

West Side Story 2009 revival

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

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.  

[theatreguy12]

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.  

[BroadwayFan12]

Posted: 5/17/15 at 3:50pm

Wicked in 2003 for my 14th birthday.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 5/17/15 at 4:40pm

Promises, Promises (original, 1970)

[LimelightMike]

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!)

[Buddy's blues]

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.

[Jose]

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.  

[Anthony12]

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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[Julie Yard]

Posted: 5/17/15 at 5:55pm

Pippin with Ben Vereen.