How many professional shows have you seen throughout your life?- Page 2

[hak5]

Posted: 6/4/13 at 1:15pm

i am mid/late 40s and have lost count....

[ethan231h]

Posted: 5/3/14 at 8:54am

Broadway:
Pippin (10 times)
Matilda
In The Heights (4 times)
Act One
Peter and the Star catcher
Mamma Mia (2 times)
Hot Feet
Cabaret (2 times)
Hair (2 times)
Catch Me If You Can
Hairspray
The Lion King
Wicked
Billy Elliot (2 times)
Cinderella
Newsies
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Bye Bye BIrdie
The Addams Family
How to Succeed...
Mary Poppins
Finian's Rainbow
13
How the Grinch Stole X-mass
Slava's Snow Show

Off Broadway:
Avenue Q
Blue Man Group
Slava's Snow Show

Paper Mill Playhouse:
A Chorus Line
Hairspray

West End:
Billy Elliot
The Wizard of oz

planning on seeing:
If/Then
Beautiful: The Carol King Musical

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 5/3/14 at 10:40am

I started keeping a spreadsheet in 2008, but the only way for me to count before that is to count up my Playbills, though I know there are some I don't still have.

My total would be 481, most of those within the last 9 years.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 5/3/14 at 10:48am

I'm at 320 Broadway, 116 for Off-Broadway (and regional theater like Steppenwolf and the 5th Avenue), and probably around 35 operas at the Met. This is in just under 10 years of theater going.

[JMPlayer6]

Posted: 5/3/14 at 11:08am

To the original poster: Why would you expect people to answer this without first answering the questions yourself?

[darquegk]

Posted: 5/3/14 at 11:16am

I work in a small regional hybrid-equity pro theatre, and I'm twenty-four, about to turn twenty-five. I estimate that I've seen maybe a hundred professional shows overall, but that I've been in about 125, not counting school or community theatre.

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 5/3/14 at 11:35am

Funny that you should ask this, because I actually catalog all of this information. I have seen 317 professional plays or musicals (also including Cirque du Soleil, Blue Man Group, Fuerza Bruta, and Stomp) for the past 16 years.

[Len Gersten]

Posted: 5/3/14 at 11:37am

My wife and I live in the suburbs of New York City and travel into the city to see a show (mostly Broadway, but also some off and off-off Broadway) an average of once a month. We've been together almost 26 years, so that would put the total number of shows I've seen with my wife at approximately 312. Then including other shows I've attended with just friends or myself, the number would climb to approximately 320. I am 57 years old, but did not attend any professional theater until my wife introduced me to it.

I do have an extensive collection of playbills from shows I've seen, but taking the time to go through these computations was pretty interesting and somewhat enlightening.

[hundredsofhats]

Posted: 5/3/14 at 11:42am

^

That's intense. All of these numbers in the 100s are mind-boggling. OO

Musicals: 22
Operas: 5
Plays: 4
Ballets: 1
Concerts: 1

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/3/14 at 11:54am

Too many to count.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/3/14 at 12:31pm

they said to keep a journal

but I didn't listen

[Everlast85]

Posted: 5/3/14 at 2:57pm

Broadway, Off Broadway, Toronto, West End, and Chicago?

95



Updated On: 5/3/14 at 02:57 PM

[wexy]

Posted: 5/3/14 at 4:44pm

58. I'd say over 600. Didn't see my first one until I was 28.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 5/3/14 at 7:30pm

Not to worry, dramamama, you are but a slip of a girl to some of us.

I saw my first professional production in 1966 and we didn't have personal computers on which to keep easy spreadsheets. (Yes, namo, I suppose I could have kept a journal; we had that technology.)

But, then, I never intended to see 60. I'm at that annoying point where my husband and I disagree as to which shows we actually saw (and when and where and with whom); we try not to bicker in front of others.