How many shows....- Page 2

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 1/1/16 at 3:19pm

dramamama611 said: "Geez....can't believe that many of you keep track!

 

I could easily keep track because I save every playbill and every ticket stub and have since "forever"...I could go back 30 years and see what shows I saw and when (and how much they cost!!).

However, for this thread, I didn't have the motivation to write down each one..LOLOL so I guesstimated.

 

"

 

[xxdrewboy85xx]

Posted: 1/1/16 at 5:03pm

New York Theater:

An American In Paris

On The Town

Curious Incident

Fun Home

Hand To God

Spring Awakening

The Flick

John

The Odyssey

Cymbeline

Barbecue 

The Color Purple

Hamilton

 

 National Tours:

Once

Kinky Boots

Book Of Mormom

Newsies

Beautiful

 

Chicago Theater:

Carousel- Lyric Opera Chicago

Lunacy- Jackalope

Four- Jackalope 

Billy Elliot- Drury Lane Oakbrook 

All Our Tragic- The Hypocrites 

Moby Dick- Lookingglass 

Disgraced- Goodman

Domesticated- Steppenwolf 

Plus a few others...

 

Other Regional:

I lost count at 17. 

 

I try try and average one show per week in a given year. I don't think I've ever successfully done so..... Unless I would add in productions I directed or worked on. 

 

All in in all I'd say 2015 was a great year of theater!

 

 

 

 

 

[ebontoyan]

Posted: 1/1/16 at 7:35pm

Broadway - 17

The Elephant Man

The River

The Last Ship

On the Town (bored of the dancing, left at intermission)

Alladin

It's only a Play

Matilda

On the Twentieth Century (saw 3x)

If/Then

Wicked

Mamma Mia

Sonething Rotten

Beautiful

The King and I

Hamilton

Amazing Grace

Les Miz

 

Chicago - 7

Newsies

First Wives Club

On your feet

Beaches

Peter and the Starcatcher

Gotta Dance

Beautiful

 

 

 

 

 

 

Updated On: 1/1/16 at 07:35 PM

[allyk]

Posted: 1/1/16 at 8:19pm

Not too many this year, unfortunately. 

Broadway
The King and I
Finding Neverland
Matilda
Something Rotten
Dames at Sea

National Tour
Beautiful
Newsies

Regional
Sister Act (Ogunquit Playhouse)
Waitress (American Repertory Theatre - saw this one twice)

Theatre-related concerts
Audra McDonald (Symphony Hall, Boston)
Idina Menzel (Mohegan Sun, Connecticut)
Josh Groban (Providence Performing Arts Center)

Community Theatre
The Story of My Life 
Guys and Dolls
Heroes
Fiddler on the Roof
Nunsense A-Men 
And at the same theater that produced four of the five above shows, I worked backstage for The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 and performed in Legally Blonde. I also worked backstage for a different production of Fiddler. 

[Cupid Boy2]

Posted: 1/1/16 at 8:38pm

It wasn't my best year in terms of the number of Broadway shows I caught, but I did get in 10. Thankfully, I saw a lot of great regional theatre as well.

 

[juice23]

Posted: 1/1/16 at 10:05pm

30 Broadway: 23 musicals, 7 plays.

2 Professional, but not Bway (Cymbeline in Central Park, Grey Gardens at Bay Street)

3 Ballets at ABT

2 Operas at the Met

1 Cirque show in Vegas

[nightnic001]

Posted: 1/1/16 at 10:56pm

Broadway:
Fun Home x2
Hamilton
Something Rotten 
Spring Awakening 
School of Rock x2
Finding Neverland
Sylvia  
On Your Feet
Dames at Sea

 

 

Tours:
The Illusionists 
Jersey Boys
Joseph
Dirty Dancing 
Rock of Ages x2
Cats x2
Annie

 

 

Concerts:
Idina Menzel

 

 

Regional/Community:
Spelling Bee x2
Mary Poppins x4
Into the Woods
Legally Blonde

Ordinary Days
Hairspray
Story of my Life
Spamalot

 

[Dancingthrulife2]

Posted: 1/1/16 at 11:44pm

Hamilton (x2)

An American in Paris

Something Rotten

Allegiance (x2)

Wicked (x2)

Finding Neverland

Phantom of the Opera

Fun Home

Mamma Mia 

Beautiful (x2)

Les Miz (x2)

Spring Awakening

The Book of Mormon

Jersey Boys

Kinky Boots

Barbecue

Amazing Grace

The King and I

The Curious Incident

The Lion King

Tabac Rouge

TOTAL: 26

That's a lot for a college freshman.. But worth it nonetheless.

[serene_embers]

Posted: 1/1/16 at 11:50pm

In NY:

Hamilton and Spring Awakening.

 

In CA:

If/Then

Elf The Musical

Hair

West Side Story

Peter Pan

Bye Bye Birdie

Big River

My Fair Lady

Cinderella

Once

Amelie

[funhamilton_rent]

Posted: 1/1/16 at 11:58pm

I rarely get out to NYC, so everybody, please don't make fun of me.

(in chronological order)

Aladdin

The Lion King

Gigi (Kennedy Center)

Finding Neverland

On the Twentieth Century

Seth Rudetsky & Mandy Gonzalez (Concert)

Something Rotten!

Finding Neverland

Once (Kennedy Center)

Fun Home

Hamilton

Bright Star (Kennedy Center)

 

Also, I go to a huge & very serious performing arts camp, so I'm going to list the shows I saw there.

Next to Normal

Rumors

Little Shop of Horrors

Urinetown

Bonnie and Clyde

Billy Elliot

Legally Blonde

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/2/16 at 12:07am

dramamama611 said: "Geez....can't believe that many of you keep track!"

 

A couple years ago, an aunt gave me this for Christmas. It's been great for keeping track (at least of the tickets I physically have, and that fit, which are most)! 
http://www.uncommongoods.com/product/ticket-stub-diary

[Crazy NooNooHead]

Posted: 1/2/16 at 12:09am

I need to preface this by stating that I needed three Playbill binders just to hold all of my programs from this year. Okay, here goes:

1. Going Once! Laughing Twice!!
2. Les Mis
3. The Elephant Man
4. The Last Ship
5. You Can't Take It With You
6. Into The Woods
7. Curious Incident
8. Lady, Be Good
9. On The 20th Century
10. The Heidi Chronicles
11. Fish In The Dark
12. Brooklynite
13. Hand To God
14. Honeymoon In Vegas
15. It Shoulda Been You
16. Dirty Dancing (national tour in Philadelphia)
17. Living On Love
18. Something Rotten!
19. Stomp
20. Mamma Mia!
21. On The Town
22. Airline Highway
23. Disenchanted!
24. Finding Neverland
25. An American In Paris
26. Zorba!
27. What I Did Last Summer
28. Doctor Zhivago
29. Gigi
30. Skylight
31. Fun Home
32. Permission
33. The Visit
34. An Act Of God
35. It's Only A Play
36. Preludes
37. Significant Other
38. The Book Of Mormon
39. The Spoils
40. Wolf Hall Part 1
41. The Way We Get By
42. The King And I
43. Wolf Hall Part 2
44. The Tempest
45. The Audience
46. A New Brain
47. The Qualms
48. Little Shop
49. Amazing Grace
50. Penn & Teller
51. The Wild Party
52. Shows For Days
53. Sayonara
54. Preludes
55. The 39 Steps
56. Cymbeline
57. Jersey Boys
58. John
59. Fun Home
60. The Book Of Mormon
61. Whorl Inside A Loop
62. Kinky Boots
63. Avenue Q
64. The Gin Game
65. Spring Awakening
66. Something Rotten!
67. Old Times
68. Empanada Loca
69. Barbecue
70. A View From The Bridge
71. Misery
72. Hamilton*
73. The Humans
74. Fool For Love
75. Sylvia
76. Hamilton*
77. Allegiance
78. Night Is A Room
79. King Charles III
80. Thérèse Raquin
81. Lord Of The Dance
82. Dames At Sea
83. Tappin' Thru Life

83 including repeat viewings, 78 not including repeat viewings. This is a record for me.

*Rannellton. Because I have fan problems. :-P

[RemlapLBC]

Posted: 1/2/16 at 12:37am

2015 Calendar Year Professional Shows

Los Angeles Ahmanson:

Blythe Spirit w Angela Landsbury
Cinderella
Dame Edna: The First Final Farewell Tour (or something like that)
Sound of Music (first stop of new National Tour)

Hollywood Pantages:

If/Then w Idena Menzel (want that 2.5 hours of my life back)
Kinky Boots
Newies
Phantom ("new tour"
Pippin

New York 4th of July Broadway and Fireworks Long weekend.

Aladdin
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hedwig w/ Darren Chris
On The Town
On the Twentieth Century w Kristin Chenoweth
Phantom of the Opera (cleansing the "new tour" from my system)
Something Rotten!

Someone above mentioned Hunchbank.  Unsure if that was very end of 2014 or very early 2015 in San Diego.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 1/2/16 at 1:48am

34 total, including repeat visits to Hand to God, Wolf Hall, Hir, and Fun Home. 

[LittleEdieFan]

Posted: 1/2/16 at 4:06am

Updated On: 1/2/16 at 04:06 AM

[iabwayfan]

Posted: 1/2/16 at 6:08am

My NYC experiences are limited compared to many, but I make the most of them!

 

2015 On/Off Broadway:

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hand to God

Fun Home

Clinton: The Musical

An American in Paris

Something Rotten

 

2015 National Tour:

Lion King

Book of Mormon

Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella

Pippin

Kinky Boots

Dirty Dancing

The Bridges of Madison County

The Wizard of Oz

[rebeccmam31]

Posted: 1/2/16 at 7:22am

If we're talking New York City only, I saw 8.  But as I live outside of Pittsburgh, that's not too bad. :)

Hand to God

Curious Incident x2

Fun Home

Hamilton x2

Spring Awakening

Sisters Follies: Between Two Worlds

 

If you add in touring companies and the Pittsburgh Public Theater, then I saw 13 more.

Motown

Pippin

The Phantom of the Opera

Dirty Dancing (unfortunately...)

Beautiful

A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder

Mary Poppins

Gypsy

Kinky Boots

Cinderella

My Fair Lady

The Diary of Anne Frank

Servant to Two Masters

(Oh! And if you count our summer stock theater, I saw 6 more.  So a total of 27. Not too shabby for a small town stay-at-home-mom. )

 

Updated On: 1/2/16 at 07:22 AM

[dramamama611]

Posted: 1/2/16 at 8:11am

Lizzie Curry & Kathy (and anyone else)  I certainly meant no criticism with my comments about keeping track.  Maybe I'll try to do so this year, maybe right in my notes app.  Probably won't last long. But I'll try!  

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 1/2/16 at 9:25am

dramamama611 said: "Lizzie Curry & Kathy (and anyone else)  I certainly meant no criticism with my comments about keeping track.  Maybe I'll try to do so this year, maybe right in my notes app.  Probably won't last long. But I'll try!  

 

"

I for one didn't think your comment was critical in tone at all....and sometimes even I laugh at myself for saving every playbill and ticket for most everything I have seen (especially because I don't have unlimited storage space).

 

But over the years, I have misplaced a few and it's ALWAYS the one I am looking for...like I still have no idea which "Billy" I saw in Billy Elliot when I saw it later on in the run and that annoys the heck out of me. (Actually the only thing I specifically remember about that show was this amazing little dancer as one of the ballet girls who really stood out to me as so talented _ Ava De Mary who I saw in Matilda and Christmas story later on).

[ebontoyan]

Posted: 1/2/16 at 9:45am

Lizzie Curry, thanks for the link! What a wonderful idea!!  My 14 year old niece will be seeing her first Broadway show (Hamilton) in May 2016 and I'd like to give her some place to store playbills/tix

[smidge]

Posted: 1/2/16 at 2:35pm

From January on

THE LAST SHIP

HEDWIG (MCH)

YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU

CONSTELLATIONS

ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

RADIO CITY SPRING SPECTACULAR

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOU

FINDING NEVERLAND

BROOKLYNITE

HEDWIG (JCM)

THE KING AND I

FUN HOME 

HAMILTON (PUBLIC)

THE VISIT

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

FISH IN THE DARK

SOMETHING ROTTEN

A NEW BRAIN

SHOWS FOR DAYS

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

THE WILD PARTY

ON THE TOWN

HAND TO GOD

BOOK OF MORMON (TOUR)

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

SPRING AWAKENING

SCHOOL OF ROCK

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

NOISES OFF

WHITE CHRISTMAS (TOUR)

LAZARUS

NUTCRACKER ROUGE

ALLEGIANCE

And concerts with Linda Eder, Jeremy Jordan, Megan Hilty, Bernadette Peters and Josh Groban

 

 

[Born in a Ditch]

Posted: 1/2/16 at 3:09pm

1. Into the Woods (Off-Broadway)
2. Jersey Boys
3. Book of Mormon
4. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (x4)
5. The Colored Museum (Boston, Huntington Theatre Company)
6. The Visit
7. Fun Home (x2)
8. Something Rotten
9. It Shoulda Been You
10. Sleep No More
11. Hand to God (x2)
12. Shows for Day (Off-Broadway)
13. Curious Incident
14. Spring Awakening
15. A Little Night Music (Boston, Huntington Theatre Company)
16. Kansas City Choir Boy (Boston, A.R.T. at Oberon) 
17. Sylvia
18. Fool for Love
19. Fiddler on the Roof
20. Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Boston, A.R.T.)
21. King Charles III
22. Noises Off
23. On Your Feet
24. Misery
25. The Color Purple 

 

 

Updated On: 1/2/16 at 03:09 PM