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First show seen on broadway?
#125First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/17/15 at 6:09pm
Visiting from Melbourne, Australia in 1990 First Play on Broadway The Heidi Chronicles & First Musical Jerome Robbins' Broadway
Updated On: 5/18/15 at 06:09 PM
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#126First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/17/15 at 6:11pm
Grease. 1979. My older sister took me.
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erinleigh1012
Swing Joined: 1/23/13
BWAY Baby2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/10/14
#128First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/17/15 at 6:44pm
It's been a few decades- but it was either the last performance- at the Winter Garden- of Carnival with Anna Maria Alberghetti- or Fiorello.
#129First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/17/15 at 6:45pm
Guys and Dolls revival with Nathan Lane and Faith Prince. Perfection.
Far From Home
Understudy Joined: 4/8/12
#130First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/17/15 at 6:47pm
Brigadoon - 1980. I was 12. I thought it was the most wonderful this I had ever seen. 
#131First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 1:23am
CATS 1983 I was 18 and flew to NYC for the first time to see it! Have been coming to see shows ever since.
LauraGrace2418
Swing Joined: 5/11/14
#132First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 3:42am
My first musical was Fun Home & my first play was Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
#133First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 3:56am
Beauty and the Beast, Palace Theatre, 1997. Starring Kerry Butler as Belle, Chuck Wagner as the Beast, and Marc Kudisch as Gaston. I was hooked.
toofunktastic2
Stand-by Joined: 4/9/15
#134First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 4:08am
Wicked in 2010 with Mandy Gonzalez and Katie Rose Clarke. It was my sixteenth birthday present.
RingOfKeys2
Understudy Joined: 5/18/15
#135First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 4:48am
Grease (the Laura Osnes revival). Next night was The Color Purple (saw Fantasia's understudy but she was brilliant). Night after that was A Chorus Line. It was a pretty great week.
mtcond
Chorus Member Joined: 5/20/14
#136First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 5:29am
On tour: "No, No, Nanette" (the revised version directed by Busby Berkeley and Burt Shevelove) with Loni Ackerman, Evelyn Keyes and Benny Baker in 1973. I was 11, and I remember it vividly.
On Broadway: "A Chorus Line" in 1977. Paul's monologue changed my life. I knew that there was a world where I could be accepted and loved, and it gave my messed up 15-year-old self such hope. And oh my lord, the brilliance of everything about it.
#138First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 8:22am
Mame with Angela Lansbury, August 1983 Gershwin Theatre. Life-changing. And also my first experience with the shock/disappointment of a show I loved being a flop.
elderchistery
Swing Joined: 2/13/15
#140First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 9:39am
Wicked in 2011 with Teal Wicks
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mpd4165
Leading Actor Joined: 8/6/09
#141First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 9:42am
Catch Me If You Can, where I finally got to see Norbert Leo Butz live and watched Aaron Tveit almost wipeout on the stairs during his exit at the end of Act I.
#142First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 9:45am
Wicked in 2010, but the first professional production in Germany was Phantom of the Opera in 1998 (?)
#143First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 10:16am
THE MUSIC MAN with Preston and Cook. Though I can't remember anything else that happened that year, I can still remember that experience like it was yesterday. My mother told me I got quite upset when the show ended.
The first year I got to choose the shows myself was on my twelfth birthday. A matinee of GOLDEN BOY with Sammy Davis Jr. and that evening FUNNY GIRL with Barbra Streisand. What a day that was for a young theatre goer. And with orchestra seats costing only $9.90 back then it became a cherished yearly ritual for me.
Huey's Pop
Featured Actor Joined: 4/19/05
#144First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 10:26am
Baker Street, starring Fritz Weaver and Inga Swensen, back in 1966 as I recall (the second year of the NY Worlds Fair).
#145First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 11:09amAvenue Q, in 2006 when I was 16. The armrest fell off my seat.
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dev101
Featured Actor Joined: 8/31/14
#146First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 11:19am
Phantom of the Opera when I was maybe 10. I played the soundtrack (on cassette) so much that it broke.
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#147First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 1:11pm
Beauty and the Beast, in 1994 just a few weeks after the Tony Awards, followed the next night by the revival of Damn Yankees.
#148First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 1:20pm
Jelly's Last Jam in 1993 was my first on Broadway. Then the following year, i saw Guys and Dolls and Miss Saigon and then nothing else on Broadway until 2011 (moved away, no money for flying back). The tour of Next to Normal coming to my town followed by listening to the OBCR over and over again and realizing that i had just missed the OBC by a couple of months is what started me coming on fairly regular long weekend trips a few years ago to try to catch the OBCs performing in as many musicals as i can catch.
TheFoozle
Swing Joined: 10/22/12
#149First show seen on broadway?
Posted: 5/18/15 at 11:58pm
I just found the Playbill and ticket while cleaning out some old things...
Beauty and the Beast in July 1997, two days after my seventh birthday. Kerry Butler and Chuck Wagner as the titular twosome.
$70 for rear orchestra in the Palace. Was just looking at prices for An American in Paris and 18 years later, the same seat is just over double the cost.
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