How many professional shows have you seen throughout your life?

Example: Off broadway, broadway, tours, etc. Not school productions.

And how old are you? If you don't want to give your exact age, just an approximate estimate of your age group.


Don't count multiple times seeing one show, just the shows themselves.

Updated On: 6/3/13 at 07:40 AM

Funny that you should ask since I just catalogued everything I have seen. This includes Broadway, Off-Broadeay, concerts, stand-up, and special performsnces like Cirque du Soleil. I have seen 503 and am 39 years old. My first concert was Phil Collins during his The Serious Tour in 1990. Excluding concerts it would be about 300 shows, not double-counting.

At 57, I have now seen my 365th equity production.

I actually had my list published with special notes...dinner with Penn and Teller or meeting Bernadette Peters or blocking Barbra Streisands view at Tommy, the musical.

Please tell me that I'm not the only one that would have no earthly idea what this number would be!

I started seeing b'wy shows when I was 16. I suppose I average maybe 10 a year(many more now than when I was young) -- that would put me near 350. But that is only a guess.

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Greengirl, what are you collecting this data for? By that I mean why do you want to know? Or is it just a point of discussion?

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I'm sure, dramamama, that those of us keeping tally are the freaks. Worry not.

I've kept track ever since I took a Theatre Management class in college that touched on the responsibilities of Artistic Directors and Literary Managers, those for whom a wide and expansive knowledge of plays and musicals would be valuable to have to call upon. So I started a tally out of curiosity and, for fun, have been keeping it ever since.

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seriously?

too many to think... my first broadway show was in 1986.

i average about 10-15 broadway a year
10-20 off broadway
and i can't count regional and state theaters and tours....


a lot.

I honestly couldn't even wager a guess. It's well into the hundreds because I would say I average about 90-100 per year.

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No idea why anyone would care, but it turns out I've only recorded attending 105 Broadway plays, compared to 191 Broadway (etc.) musicals. 296 sounds like a respectable total at the age of 56.

(Are those who aren't tallying their shows also not sharing their ages because they're coy?)

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A while ago, there was a thread about how many Broadway musicals you saw. I listed over 200 (just Broadway musicals and that didn't include repeats) and was both a little surprised and pleased to list the most of any poster.

That was just Broadway musicals... I am an avid attender of other professional productions including Broadway plays, and Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions. I also love dance and attend dance concerts often.

This doesn't include the shows I attended because of a direct involvement in their production. There are many years of those, too.

I just turned 56 and I suspect that if I was to tally all the professional shows I've seen it would have long ago surpassed the 4 digits.

Am I bragging? Perhaps. But, like so many people here, I am passionate about the theater and cherish my many many many experiences spent in a darkened room.

And, I'm just beginning...

Updated On: 6/3/13 at 08:35 PM

Five Broadway productions, fifteen tours, twenty-six regional productions, and one very professional outdoor drama (not counting a few of the semi-pro others) make forty-seven professional shows. I may be forgetting a few. And I'm seventeen.

17 professional in total (not counting multiples)- 8 Broadway, 5 tour, 2 off Broadway, and 2 regional. I'm 14 and I live in Florida so. :P