"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
My complete list (including repeats, which are not numbered):
1. Regrets Only (1/10, 2PM) 2. Translations (1/10, 8PM) 3. An Evening with Kathy Griffin (1/19, 8PM) 4. The Fever (1/20, 2PM) 5. The Vertical Hour (1/20, 8PM) 6. Frank's Home (1/21, 2:30PM) 7. A Spanish Play (1/27, 2PM) 8. Adrift in Macao (1/28, 3PM) 9. Dutchman (1/30, 7PM) 10. The Apple Tree (1/31, 8PM) 11. Anon (2/1, 7:30PM) 12. The Coast of Utopia: Salvage (2/2, 8PM) 13. Howard Katz (2/3, 2PM) 14. The Jew of Malta (2/3, 8PM) 15. Summer and Smoke (2/4, 2PM) 16. I Puritani (2/5, 7:30PM) 17. Mary Rose (2/6, 8PM) 18. A Very Common Procedure (2/7, 7PM) 19. Mr. Fabulous (2/8, 3PM) Left at intermission 20. Follies (2/10, 2PM) 21. Betty Buckley: Quintessence (2/10, 10:30PM) 22. Journey's End (2/11, 3PM) Follies (2/12, 7PM) 23. Eugene Onegin (2/13, 8PM) 24. Jenufa (2/14, 8PM) 25. King Lear (2/16, 8PM) 26, Talk Radio (2/17, 2PM) 27. The Little Dog Laughed (2/17, 8PM) 28. Kiki and Herb (2/18, 11:30PM) 29. Working (2/19, 8PM) 30. Prelude to a Kiss (2/20, 8PM) 31. Dying City (2/21, 8PM) 32. Simon Boccanegra (2/27, 8PM) 33. Jack Goes Boating (2/28, 8PM) 34. Curtains (3/1, 8PM) Prelude to a Kiss (3/2, 8PM) 35. The Pirates of Penzance (3/3, 8PM) 36. Some Men (3/4, 2PM) 37. The Sisters Rosensweig (3/5, 7PM) 38. Tall Grass (3/6, 8PM) 39. The Year of Magical Thinking (3/7, 8PM) Prelude to a Kiss (3/9, 8PM) Journey's End (3/10, 2PM) 40. The Pirate Queen (3/10, 8PM) 41. Our Leading Lady (3/11, 2:30PM) 42. BFF (3/12, 8PM) 43. Prometheus Bound (3/13, 8PM) 44. Les Miserables (3/14, 2PM) Left at intermission Howard Katz (3/14, 7:30PM) 45. Inherit the Wind (3/22, 8PM) 46. Blackbird (3/25, 2PM) 47. Essential Self-Defense (3/25, 7PM) 48. The Broadway Musicals of 1938 (3/26, 8PM) 49. Die Agyptische Helena (3/27, 8PM) 50. La Donna Del Lago (3/28, 7:30PM) 51. Andrea Chenier (3/29, 7:30PM) 52. Exits and Entrances (3/30, 8PM) 53. Face the Music (3/31, 2PM) 54. Di Yam Gazlonim (3/31, 8PM) Left at intermission 55. Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell (4/1, 3PM) 56. King Hedley II (4/1, 7PM) 57. The Accomplices (4/2, 8PM) 58. Frost/Nixon (4/3, 8PM) 59. Grey Gardens (4/4, 8PM) 60. A Moon for the Misbegotten (4/5, 7PM) 61. Chicago (4/10, 7PM) 62. Deuce (4/11, 8PM) 63. transFigures (4/12, 8PM) 64. 110 in the Shade (4/14, 2PM) 65. Lovemusik (4/15, 2PM) 66. Turandot (4/16, 8PM) 67. Giulio Cesare (4/17, 7:30PM) 110 in the Shade (4/18, 8PM) 68. Coram Boy (4/20, 8PM) 69. American Fiesta (4/21, 3PM) 70. Flavio (4/21, 8PM) 71. Radio Golf (4/23, 8PM) 72. The Sea (4/25, 7:30PM) 73. Happy End (4/29, 3PM) 74. The Broadway Musicals of 1959 (4/30, 8PM) 75. Il Trittico (5/1, 7:30PM) Lovemusik (5/4, 8PM) 76. Orfeo ed Euridice (5/5, 1:30PM) 77. Il Barbiere di Siviglia (5/5, 8PM) 78. Apostasy (5/6, 2PM) 79. Training Wisteria (5/8, 7PM) Left at intermission Journey's End (5/9, 8PM) 80. Dixie's Tupperware Party (5/10, 8PM) 81. 10 Million Miles (5/12, 2PM) 82. Stairway to Paradise (5/12, 8PM) 83. The Cherry Orchard (5/13, 3PM) Left at intermission 84. Crazy Mary (5/13, 7:30PM) 85. Gaslight (5/16, 3PM) 86. In a Dark Dark House (5/16, 7PM) 87. Eurydice (6/6, 2PM) 88. Romeo and Juliet (6/6, 8PM) 89. Gypsy (7/9, 7PM) 90. Old Acquaintance (7/10, 8PM) 91. Xanadu (7/11, 2PM) 92. Iphigenia 2.0 (8/7, 7PM) Curtains (8/12, 3PM) 93. Scarcity (9/1, 8PM) 94. A Midsummer Night's Dream (9/2, 8PM) 95. 100 Saints You Should Know (9/5, 8PM) 96. Opera For All Gala Concert (9/6, 7:30PM) 97. Edge (9/8, 2PM) 98. Walmartopia (9/8, 8PM) A Midsummer Night's Dream (9/9, 8PM) 99. Margaret Garner (9/11, 7:30PM) 100. The Ritz (9/16, 2PM) 101. The Misanthrope (9/20, 8PM) 102. Mauritius (9/21, 8PM) 103. Hair (9/22, 7PM) 104. La Boheme (9/23, 1:30PM) 105. Romeo et Juliette (9/25, 8PM) 106. Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (9/28, 8PM) 107. Pygmalion (9/29, 2PM) 108. The Overwhelming (9/29, 7:30PM) 109. Lucia di Lammermoor (10/1, 8PM) 110. Sympathy Jones (10/4, 4:30PM) 111. Madama Butterfly (10/8, 8PM) 112. A Feminine Ending (10/9, 7:30PM) 113. Speech and Debate (10/12, 8PM) 114. Carmen (10/13, 8PM) 115. The Receptionist (10/14, 2PM) 116. The Farnsworth Invention (10/15, 8PM) 117. The Glorious Ones (10/16, 8PM) The Glorious Ones (10/19, 8PM) 118. Die Mommie Die! (10/20, 2PM) 119. An Evening with Betty Buckley (10/20, 8PM) 120. Spain (10/21, 3PM) Madama Butterfly (10/23, 8PM) 121. The Baker's Wife (10/27, 2:30PM) 122. Peter and Jerry (10/28, 3PM) 123. Things We Want (10/29, 8PM) 124. Macbeth (10/31, 8PM) 125. The Seafarer (11/4, 3PM) 126. Duran Duran's Red Carpet Massacre (11/5, 8PM) 127. Rock 'N' Roll (11/7, 2PM) 128. La Traviata (11/7, 8PM) 129. Is He Dead? (11/9, 8PM) 130. Cymbeline (11/10, 2PM) 131. Richard III (11/10, 8PM) 132. Norma (11/12, 8PM) 133. The Wooster Group's Hamlet (11/16, 8PM) 134. Vanessa (11/17, 1:30PM) 135. Pumpgirl (11/17, 7:30PM) 136. Doris to Darlene: A Cautionary Valentine (11/18, 7:30PM) 137. Die Zauberflote (11/20, 8PM) 138. Iphigenie en Tauride (11/27, 8:30PM) 139. Le Nozze di Figaro (11/28, 8PM) 140. Yellow Face (12/2, 3PM) 141. Raised in Captivity (12/3, 7PM) 142. The Homecoming (12/4, 7PM) Norma (12/7, 8PM) 143. Amahl and the Night Visitors (12/8, 11AM) 144. Queens Blvd. (12/8, 2PM) 145. A Bronx Tale (12/9, 7PM) 146. August: Osage County (12/11, 7:30PM) 147. Edward II (12/13, 8PM) Rock 'N' Roll (12/16, 3PM) 148. The Drowsy Chaperone (12/16, 7PM) 149. Trumpery (12/18, 8PM) Left at intermission
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Lion King Beauty and the Beast (x2) Mamma Mia (x2) Curtains A Chorus Line (x2) Wicked Young Frankenstein White Christmas Hairspray Sweeney Todd Man of La Mancha Les Miserables The Producers Doubt Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life Mary Poppins Spring Awakening (x2) Legally Blonde The Wild Party Xanadu (x2) 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Other shows:
Boston Pops (x2) Boston Ballet's The Nutcracker
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
1/24-Tarzan 2/17-Finding Nemo (In WDW) 3/17-Little Shop of Horrors (High School) 4/3-Legally Blonde First Preview 4/14-High School Musical (Youth Theatre) 4/28-Beauty & the Beast 5/9-Mary Poppins 200th Performance 5/30-Blue Man Group (Boston) 7/8-Beauty & the Beast (Final Performance on a Sunday at 2:00) 7/8-Legally Blonde 7/14-Drowsy Chaperone 8/7-Curtains 8/17 & 8/19-1776 (Community Theatre in LBI) 9/29-Xanadu 10/10-Hair (High School) 10/15-Young Frankenstein (First Monday Performance) 11/3-Little Mermaid First Preview 11/25-Grinch 12/2-Drowsy Chaperone 12/30-Drowsy Chaperone Closing Night
Not to mention Hairspray and Sweeney Todd at the movies.
So, counting the movies, 23. Not much for you, amybe, but ALOT for me. also, I'm pretty sure I bought almost half of them with my own money, rather then my parents, another record.
Updated On: 12/31/07 at 06:12 PM
The Producers (twice including closing night) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (PaperMill) Young Frankenstein November The Receptionist Jersey Boys The Drowsy Chaperone
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27- Broadway (Little Dog Laughed, The Producers (2x), Talk Radio, Curtains, Voyage, Spring Awakening, Shipwreck, Frost/Nixon, Salvage, Journey's End, LoveMusik, Phantom, Company, Rent, Mauritius (3x), Young Frankenstein, Drowsy, August: Osage County, Cymbeline, The Homecoming, Rock 'n' Roll, The Seafarer, November and Is He Dead?) 3- Off-Broadway (Dutchman, Lear at the Public, All That I Will Ever Be at NYTW) 5- Other (Gypsy at City Center, Lear at BAM, Sweeney Todd tour in Boston, Turandot at Met Opera, and the Wooster Group's Hamlet
Wow some of you have very impressive listings! Mine however, aren't as grand, but here goes...
Aida (tour) Spring Awakening Drowsy Chaperone Journey's End Company Curtains Pirate Queen Lovemusik 110 in the Shade Grey Gardens Xanadu Iphigenia 2.0 The Ritz Mauritius Pygmalion Legally Blonde Farnsworth Invention Young Frankenstein Is He Dead The Homecoming
There should've been a few more on there but due to the strike they were cancelled (and I didn't reschedule them).
Broadway/Off-Broadway: The Pirate Queen Spring Awakening Company Legally Blonde Les Mis 110 in the Shade Curtains Avenue Q Year of Magical Thinking The Fantasticks Frankenstein
Regional/Tour/Kennedy Center (DC): Into the Woods Vigils Crave This is How it Goes Carnival The Women of Brewster Place Macbeth Jitney (4) Saving Aimee Bat Boy Doubt Pillowman The Heidi Chronicles Nest Songs for A New World Meet John Doe (4) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Summer of 42 (4) The Witches of Eastwick (2) Dead Man's Cell Phone Ricky, Joe, and Michael John Mrs. Packard Camelot Pangs of the Messiah Reefer Madness The Unmentionables A Lesson Before Dying Merrily we Roll Along The Word Begins My Trip to Al Qaeda Well My Children, My Africa Current Nobody 33 Variations West Side Story at 50 Shining City The Studio Treasure Island A Christmas Carol Christmas Carol 1941 Ella Redshirts Star Wars
Regional (Chicago): August: Osage County
"Why do you care what people might say? Why try to fit into their design?" (Side Show)
Spring Awakening (x5 (on 1/5)) Company (x10 including the final performance) 110 in the Shade (x2) Jersey Boys Avenue Q Journey's End Grey Gardens Rock N Roll Seafarer Hairspray The Homecoming August :Osage County A Chorus Line Wicked Xanadu Talk Radio Frost/Nixon Forbidden Broadway In the Heights Peter and Jerry Little Mermaid Legally Blonde Cyrano Billy Elliott in Sydney probably missing some but that's my list
(Sorry to threadjack..) but the highest point of my Broadway experience this year was to meet fellow filipino Ms. Lea Salonga (of Miss Saigon) if it wasn't for her ... I would not get hooked on Broadway...and she opened the door for fellow Filipinos actors.......on Broadway ... Kudos to Lea ! 2007 was her return year on Broadway
My pictures with Ms. Lea Salonga from Les Miserables Revival
I've seen: Chicago Drowsy Chaperone (X3 including closing night) Curtains (X2 including opening night) Grey Gardens Coast of Utopia (Marathon) Hairspray Les Miserables Xanadu (X3) Mamma Mia! Forbidden Broadway Rude Awakening Spring Awakening Legally Blonde Wicked Mary Poppins The Little Mermaid Young Frankenstein Cyrano de Bergerac Is He Dead? Spamalot tour Spamalot The Farnsworth Invention Happy Days (regional)
So 23 shows not including repeats/tours. I'll probably cut back next year.
I'm trying to remember these from memory so I know I will forget something.
1. Company (Jan) 2. Jacques Brel is Alive & Well & Living In Paris 3. That Time of Year 4. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 5. The Drowsy Chaperone (January) 6. Grey Gardens 7. The Little Dog Laughed 8. Les Miserables (February) 9. Company (Feb) 10. The Pirate Queen 11. Tarzan 12. Mary Poppins 13. Phantom of the Opera 14. Broadway for Medicine concert at City Center 15. Broadway Musicals of 1938 at Town Hall 16. Euan Morton in concert at The Zipper 17. Forbidden Broadway: The Roast of Utopia 18. The Leading Men II concert at Birdland 19. Legally Blonde (April) 20. A Moon For the Misbegotten 21. Spamalot 22. Journey's End 23. Spring Awakening 24. A Chorus Line 25. Coram Boy 26. Hairspray 27. Broadway Bares 17 28. 21st Easter Bonnet Competition 29. Legally Blonde (MTV taping) 30. Les Miserables (Aug 20) 31. Frost/Nixon 32. Les Miserables (Aug 24) 33. Make Me A Song 34. Gypsy (City Center) 35. Walmartopia 36. Frankenstein: The Musical 37. Wicked 38. Jersey Boys 39. Chicago 40. The Drowsy Chaperone (December) 41. The Lion King 42. Xanadu 43. Pygmalion 44. Is He Dead? 45. The Homecoming 46. The Seafarer 47. Gypsy of the Year
I'll probably forget some since I'm doing this off the top of my head, but here are the ones I could think of - in no particular order:
A CHORUS LINE SPRING AWAKENING GASLIGHT 110 IN THE SHADE CURTAINS (6x) FROST/NIXON DEUCE INHERIT THE WIND OLD ACQUAINTANCE THE RECEPTIONIST MAURITIUS XANADU THE RUNNER STUMBLES ESSENTIAL SELF-DEFENSE AN OCTOPUS LOVE STORY VINEGAR TOM 100 SAINTS YOU SHOULD KNOW All Singin' All Dancin' (at Town Hall) MY FAIR LADY concert at Carnegie Hall 2007 BCEFA Easter Bonnet 2007 BCEFA Gypsy of the Year
edited to add (forgot): FRANK'S HOME CRAZY MARY OUR LEADING LADY THE RUNNER STUMBLES (different production from the one I listed earlier) VILLAGE WOOING/HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND (Project Shaw) THE MILLIONARESS (Project Shaw) PASSION, POISON AND PETRAFACTION/PREsS CUTTINGS (Project Shaw) MAN AND SUPERMAN (Project Shaw) PYGMALION (Project Shaw) Updated On: 12/31/07 at 07:31 PM
NYC: Avenue Q Spring Awakening Grey Gardens Company A Chorus Line Curtains
Chicago: Wicked The Color Purple
Tours: Spelling Bee Twelve Angry Men The Wedding Singer A Tuna Christmas
Actors Theatre of Louisville: Sherlock Holmes Mary's Wedding Nine Parts of Desire Strike Slip When Something Wonderful Ends dark plays or stories for boys Fire on the Mountain Hedwig and the Angry Inch The Underpants Spunk The Santaland Diaries
Summer theatre: Stephen Foster the Musical Big River Greater Tuna
Dinner theatre: Peter Pan White Christmas
Community theatre: The Gingerbread Lady Updated On: 12/31/07 at 07:46 PM
Billy Elliot (West End) Curtains Rent (Anthony/Adam) Rent (Adam, no Anthony ) Legally Blonde Chuckleball Spring Awakening (JGJ's 3rd to last performance)
On the list for '08: Spelling Bee, Spamalot, Avenue Q, Wicked (again), Spring Awakening (again), Rent (as always), Chorus Line, Billy Elliot in NYC?, Forbidden Broadway, Jersey Boys
I had a big old list until my darling iMac Nadia had a problem and we had to reinstall everything. I'll see what I can remember. They're in no particular order.
The Vertical Hour (10 times between November 11 and March 11) The Year of Magical Thinking (9 times...including the last 4 performances) 110 In The Shade (7 times I think) The Drowsy Chaperone (I saw it 8 times...but not all in 2007) Xanadu (4 or 5 times) Pygmalion (3 times) Gypsy (2 times) Coram Boy (2 times) Mary Poppins (2 times) Beauty and the Beast (2 times) LoveMusik (2 times) The Pirate Queen (2 times) A Moon for the Misbegotten (2 times) The Homecoming (2 times) Les Miserables (1/2 a time) Facing East No Child... 100 Saints You Should Know Iphegenia 2.0 A Midsummer Night's Dream Frankenstein Curtains Avenue Q Tarzan Legally Blonde Spring Awakening Frost/Nixon August: Osage County Rock 'n Roll The Farnsworth Invention A Chorus Line In Darfur Tynan The Color Purple Talk Radio The Seafarer Hairspray (times 2) Sessions
I think that's it... I might be wrong though. Definitely storing the list on google docs in 2008.
Experience live theater. Experience paintings. Experience books. Live, look and listen like artists! ~ imaginethis
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 : Avenue Q Wednesday, May 30, 2007: Drowsy Chaperone (2 p.m.) Wednesday, May 30, 2007: A Chorus Line ( 8 p.m.) Thursday, May 31, 2007: Deuce
I definitely plan on seeing "Gypsy" , "Xanadu" (hopefully it's still open by then), "Spamalot" and one off-Broadway play when I go to NYC from June 10 - 13th. I've got my hotel (EconoLodge-Midtown) and flight (JetBlue). All I need is to purchase tickets.
Shalom y'all... from RC in Austin, Texas
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)