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.
"
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!
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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:
83 including repeat viewings, 78 not including repeat viewings. This is a record for me.
*Rannellton. Because I have fan problems. :-P
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.
Posted: 1/2/16 at 1:48am
34 total, including repeat visits to Hand to God, Wolf Hall, Hir, and Fun Home.
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
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
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!
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).
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
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
Posted: 1/2/16 at 3:09pm
Updated On: 1/2/16 at 03:09 PM
