Have you seen a show in every Broadway house?- Page 3

[JMPlayer6]

Posted: 4/4/11 at 2:33pm

I don't recall ever seeing anything in the Ethel Barrymore. But, apart from that venue, I have seen a show in every still-existing Broadway theater. As for the Ethel Barrymore, that will change shortly when I see "Arcadia".

[Gothampc]

Posted: 4/4/11 at 2:35pm

The only ones I have not been in are:

The New Amsterdam
The Palace

I saw a show in the Mark Hellinger before it converted.

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 4/4/11 at 3:21pm

Every time we have one of these threads, I feel reassured in the fact that I'm not the only dork who tracks this stuff in a spreadsheet!

A couple years ago, a friend and I actually had a little competitionto see who could see shows in all the Broadway theaters first. I won when I saw THE LITTLE MERMAID and checked off the Lunt-Fontanne. Then the Henry Miller re-opened and I saw BIRDIE.

The fact that she refuses to see PHANTOM helped me win. :)

I have not seen anything in theaters that do not exist anymore, however.

[Sauja]

Posted: 4/4/11 at 3:31pm

I've been in all of them but the Ambassador. I've seen Chicago three times but it was once at the Richard Rodgers and twice at the Shubert. I feel like I should bite the bullet and just go once more for completism, but...I just haven't made it yet. Okay, and I'm cheating on the Sondheim since I saw Cabaret in that space when it was the Kit Kat Klub way back when. But I'm seeing Anything Goes in a few weeks and will check it off anew.

[Huss417]

Posted: 4/4/11 at 3:37pm

Years ago I got a great book in London called "The Great Theatres of London" It had a write up on each theatre, pictures inside of the theatres and pictures from some shows that have played in each one.

Is there a Broadway equivalent that I am not aware of?

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 4/4/11 at 4:26pm

At This Theatre. I believe it was published by Playbill.

I'm only at about 65%, but I've tripled and quadrupled at some houses.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/4/11 at 5:28pm

It was published by Applause, but one of the writers is a Playbill columnist.

http://www.amazon.com/At-This-Theatre-Applause-Books/dp/1557835667

It's really lovely. I have the first printing so it's a little outdated, but I still adore it.

And yes, I have seen shows in each of the current Broadway houses, as well as at least one (possibly more that I'm forgetting?) that are no longer.

[littlepaperstars]

Posted: 4/4/11 at 7:41pm

I haven't been to the:

Ambassador
Samuel J. Friedman
Minskoff


I have no interest in seeing Chicago nor the Lion King again (saw them both on tour) and as of yet there hasn't been an MTC show I've wanted to see (except Times Stands Still, which I saw at the Cort.)

[Huss417]

Posted: 4/4/11 at 8:34pm

Thanks for the info orange and luv. Just ordered it. :)

[viola13]

Posted: 4/4/11 at 10:45pm

Wasn't sure if I'd seen anything at the Cort or the Music Box, but just looked up shows and realized I did see revivals of The Homecoming and Lend Me a Tenor, so yes, I've seen a show in all of the currently running theatres!

Now I kinda want to make a spreadsheet of my own and see how many shows I've seen in each. lol.

[Theatrical Gems]

Posted: 4/5/11 at 12:28am

. Updated On: 4/5/11 at 12:28 AM

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 4/5/11 at 12:33am

Because I'm home now with my spreadsheet and bored:

Helen Hayes: BRIDGE & TUNNEL, XANADU(x5)
Circle in the Square: SPELLING BEE(x3), THE NORMAN CONQUESTS (all three parts), THE MIRACLE WORKER, LOMBARDI
American Airlines: PRELUDE TO A KISS, PYGMALION, THE 39 STEPS, AFTER MISS JULIE, PRESENT LAUGHTER, EVERYDAY RAPTURE, MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Booth: THURGOOD, NEXT TO NORMAL
Golden: AVENUE Q (x2), OLEANNA, RED
Studio 54: THE THREEPENNY OPERA, THE APPLE TREE, 110 IN THE SHADE, THE RITZ, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE(x2), WAITING FOR GODOT, WISHFUL DRINKING, SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM(x2), BRIEF ENCOUNTER, THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE
Lyceum: IS HE DEAD?, MACBETH, [TITLE OF SHOW](x3), REASONS TO BE PRETTY, IN THE NEXT ROOM, LOOPED
Walter Kerr: GREY GARDENS, A BRONX TALE, A CATERED AFFAIR, IRENA'S VOW, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC(x3)
Belasco: AMERICAN BUFFALO
Music Box: DEUCE, THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, SUPERIOR DONUTS, LEND ME A TENOR, LA BÊTE
Brooks Atkinson: MARK TWAIN TONIGHT!, ROCK OF AGES
Sondheim: BYE BYE BIRDIE, ALL ABOUT ME, ANYTHING GOES
Jacobs: FROST/NIXON, THE COUNTRY GIRL, GOD OF CARNAGE, BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON
Schoenfeld: A CHORUS LINE, IMPRESSIONISM, A STEADY RAIN, A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, A LIFE IN THE THEATRE, THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT
Vivian Beaumont: CYMBELINE
Cort: BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, THE HOMECOMING(x2), BORN YESTERDAY
Longacre: TALK RADIO, BOEING-BOEING, BURN THE FLOOR(x3)
Barrymore: THE GLASS MENAGERIE, COMPANY(x3), NOVEMBER, SPEED-THE-PLOW(x2), EXIT THE KING, RACE, ELLING
O'Neill: SPRING AWAKENING(x2), 33 VARIATIONS, FELA!
Ambassador: CHICAGO(x2)
Broadhurst: LENNON, THE HISTORY BOYS, LES MISÉRABLES, EQUUS, HAMLET, ENRON, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Nederlander: RENT(x9), GUYS AND DOLLS, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
August Wilson: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, JERSEY BOYS
Hirschfeld: SWEET CHARITY, THE WEDDING SINGER(x2), CURTAINS, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, HAIR(x4), HOW TO SUCCEED
Neil Simon: HAIRSPRAY(x3), RAGTIME, RAIN
Rodgers: CYRANO DE BERGERAC, IN THE HEIGHTS
Imperial: DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, BILLY ELLIOT
Lunt-Fontanne: THE LITTLE MERMAID
Winter Garden: MAMMA MIA!
Shubert: SPAMALOT(x3), BLITHE SPIRIT
Marquis: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE(x2), SOUL OF SHAOLIN, 9 TO 5
St. James: THE PRODUCERS(x4), GYPSY, DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS, FINIAN'S RAINBOW, AMERICAN IDIOT(x2)
Majestic: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Minskoff: THE LION KING
Friedman: MAURITIUS, TOP GIRLS, THE ROYAL FAMILY, TIME STANDS STILL, COLLECTED STORIES
New Amsterdam: MARY POPPINS
Broadway: BOMBAY DREAMS, SHREK
Palace: AIDA(x2), LESTAT, LEGALLY BLONDE(x2), LIZA'S AT THE PALACE
Foxwoods: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Gerswhin: WICKED(x2)

[allofmylife]

Posted: 4/5/11 at 3:57am

I have missed four or five but the amazing thing is the idea of some of you never having been inside The Majestic. My God, that theater IS Broadway. It's the most famous, most storied house in the business. I have seen it at it's absolute peak in the early 60s and wow, what a palace.

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 4/5/11 at 4:03am

Only two...

American Airlines Theatre and Samuel J. Friedman. I'm actually a little surprised that I have been to almost every one.

[gschuber]

Posted: 4/5/11 at 7:18pm

I still need:

Ambassador
New Amsterdam
August Wilson

[jbroadway4]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 12:05pm

BUMP!

American Airlines
.The Big Knife
.The Winslow Boy
.Violet

Brooks Atkinson
.Peter and the Starcatcher
.After Midnight

Ethel Barrymore
.Arcadia
.Chaplin
.Macbeth

Vivian Beaumont
.South Pacific
.War Horse
.Ann
.Macbeth
.Act One

Booth
.Next to Normal
.Other Desert Cities
.I'll Eat You Last
.The Glass Menagerie

Broadhurst
.Enron
.Baby It's You (x2)
.A Streetcar Named Desire
.Mamma Mia!

Broadway
.Shrek
.Sister Act
.Cinderella

Circle in the Square
.The Miracle Worker
.Godspell
.Soul Doctor

Cort
.Born Yesterday
.Breakfast at Tiffany's

Foxwoods Theatre
.Spiderman (x3)

Samuel J. Friedman
.The Assembled Parties
.The Snow Geese
.Outside Mullingar

Gershwin
.Wicked

John Golden
.The Normal Heart

Al Hirschfeld
.How to Succeed
.Elf (2010 and 2012)
.Kinky Boots

Imperial
.Billy Elliot
.Nice Work If You Can Get It
.Les Miserables

Bernard B. Jacobs
.13

Walter Kerr
.A Little Night Music
.Lysistrata Jones
.The Testament of Mary
.A Gentleman's Guide To Love & Murder

Longacre
.First Date

Lunt-Fontanne
.Beauty & The Beast
.The Addams Family (x2)
.Ghost
.Motown

Lyceum
.The Nance

Marquis
.Come Fly Away
.Wonderland
.Il Divo

Minskoff
.The Lion King

Music Box
.Pippin

Nederlander
.Newsies (x2)

New Amsterdam
.Mary Poppins

Eugene O'Neill
.Fela!

Palace
.Priscille Queen of the Desert
.Annie (x2)

Richard Rodgers
.Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo
.Romeo & Juliet
.If/Then

St. James
.American Idiot
.On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
.Leap of Faith
.Bring It On
.Bullets Over Broadway

Gerald Schoenfeld
.Bonnie & Clyde
.Orphans
.Bridges of Madison County

Shubert
.Memphis
.Matilda (x3)

Neil Simon
.Catch Me If You Can
.Jesus Christ Superstar
.Big Fish

Stephen Sondheim Theatre
.Anything Goes
.The Trip to Bountiful
.Beautiful

Winter Garden
.Mamma Mia!
.Rocky (x2)


Updated On: 4/14/14 at 12:05 PM

[Steve721]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 1:11pm

I started going to NY to see shows in 1979, and I've seen more than 350 shows. So yes, I've been in every Broadway House, most of them many times. The complete list would probably crash the server or something, LOL.

Posted: 4/14/14 at 1:21pm

Coincidental with this thread popping up again, my daughter just saw VIOLET, making the AA Theater the 40th Broadway house she's been to. Last year she saw FIRST DATE at the Longacre, her 39th Broadway theater. Me -- I'm up to only 38 so far.

[Broadway Bob*]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 3:49pm

I just completed this yesterday. Only the Sam Freidman escaped me for a long time. Saw CASA VALENTINA and can now say I've seen a show (usually more than 1) in every currently operating Broadway Theater. And saw 2 shows in the old Henry Miller.

[haterobics]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 4:09pm

I'm only missing two: The Ambassador and the August Wilson, mainly because I saw both Chicago and Jersey Boys as touring productions in San Francisco, and nothing new has ever played in them since then. Can't search my e-mail database to see if I attended shows before then...

[brdway411]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 4:53pm

Yup, all of them.

[HooferFrom42ndSt]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 5:54pm

by now I think I have seen at least two different shows in every Broadway theater, even those with long running shows - the Majestic included. I saw a revival of The Most Happy Fella, Ballroom, and 42nd Street there before Phantom settled in.

[gstrus2]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 6:01pm

Have 2 left: The Friedman and the Lincoln Center. Seeing Casa Valentina in April, so Friedman is done, and waiting for King and I for Lincoln Center theater.

[jkstheatrescene]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 7:12pm

As of this coming Saturday, when I see VIOLET at the American Airlines, I will have been to at least one show in every current Broadway theater, plus I've seen shows at the old Henry Miller's and Criterion Center.

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 7:48pm

Since posting in this thread three years ago, I've been to five out of the six theaters that I was missing. Only the Minskoff now escapes me; I saw THE LION KING twice back when it was at the New Amsterdam, and have little desire to go back.