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How many shows did you see in 2007?
#50re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 12/31/07 at 8:00pm
Hello all. Here is my modest list:
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
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#51re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 12/31/07 at 8:23pm
West End:
1. We Will Rock You
2. Dirty Dancing
3. Fame
4. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (x2)
5. Phantom of the Opera
6. Grease
7. Rent Remixed (x2)
8. Les Miserables (x2)
9. Hairspray
10. Avenue Q
Other:
Dancing on Ice
Disney on Ice
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#52re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 12/31/07 at 9:46pm
I envy everyone who was lucky enough to see Frost/Nixon and The Coast of Utopia. I think it's a crime that the Broadway production was not preserved on DVD (I wanna get the CD though) and I can hardly wait for the movie version of Frost/Nixon.
So this is my year as best as I can remember it:
Avenue Q
Spring Awakening
Late Night Catechism (Company Theatre)
The Full Monty (Company Theatre)
Parade (SpeakEasy)
Curtains
110 in the Shade
Sorry Wrong Number/Clue (Company Theatre)
South Pacific (Orpheum Theatre out in Foxborough)
The Secret Garden (Silver Lake High School. An old friend of mine was playing Mary)
A Christmas Carol (The Company Theatre)
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#53re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 12/31/07 at 10:01pm
Broadway
*Spring Awakening (x2)
*Jersey Boys
*Spelling Bee
*The Drowsy Chaperone
*Legally Blonde
*Xanadu
*Rent
*Curtains
Off-Broadway
*Eurydice
Melbourne
*The History Boys (MTC)
*Miss Saigon
*The Pillowman (MTC)
*King Lear (RSC)
*The Seagull (RSC)
Festival of Perth
*Korean production of 'Midsummer'
*Propeller Theatre's production of 'The Taming of the Shrew'
*Propeller Theatre's production of 'Twelfth Night' (x2)
Local
*The Laramie Project
*Reprehensible (parts 1-4)
*The Crucible
*The Good Thief
*This is Your Life... Sort of
*Dirty Pretty Nails
Touring
*Danny Bhoy
*Akmal Live
*Tim Minchin
*Abridged Shakespeare
*Macbeth
University Productions
*The Country Wife
*The Cherry Orchard
*Once on this Island
*Inner Voices
*WAAPA Music Theatre 'Best Bits'
*Animal Farm
*The Seagull
*West Side Story
*Unidentified Human Remains
*The Popular Mechanicals
*The Good Fight
*Hello Again
*UnAustralia
*WAAPA 2007 Showcase
(Not including the weekly free lunchtime shows)
13 Musicals
23 Plays
4 Comedians
2 Showcases
...and a partridge in a pear tree.
myManCape
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/26/05
#54re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 12/31/07 at 10:25pm
About 45 On/Off Broadway inc. return trips.
Add in concerts and special events... a lot more.
"Have they come yet?"
#55re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 12/31/07 at 10:32pm
Scrooge
Joseph
Guys and Dolls
Blood Brothers
Blood Brothers
Blood Brothers
Starlight Express
Footloose
42nd Street
Beauty and the Beast
The Producers
The Producers
The Sound of Music
Avenue Q
The Lion King
Little shop of Horrors
High Society
Spamalot
The Drowsy Chaperone
Fame
Godspell
South Pacific
Dr Dolittle
Hairspray
Lord of the Rings
Avenue Q
Wicked
musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#56re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 12/31/07 at 10:58pm
My list with short reviews:
1. The Wiz, La Jolla Playhouse - Great set design...lots of potential.
2. Most Wanted, La Jolla Playhouse - Quite impressive...thanks Linda H.!
3. Camelot (tour) - not bad at all. Matt Bogart stole the show.
4. Les Miserables, the Broadhurst Theater - I was surprised with the review. The music was thin but the revival was not bad all. Daphne was a good actor but her vocal styles were unique.
5. Company, Ethel Barrymore Theatre - The entire company was amazing. This was an excellent revival.
6. Les Miserables, the Broadhurst Theater - with Lea Salonga (opening week) as Fantine....amazing!
7. Les Miserables, the Broadhurst Theater - Lea Salonga's farewell performance. It was luminous!
8. The Ritz, Studio 54 Theater - Rosie Perez's club scene was hilarious!
9. Xanadu, Helen Hayes Theater - Hilarious, entertaining!
10. Young Frankenstein, The Hilton Theater - huge production, entertaining but was just ok.
11. Hairspray (Tour) - Fun show.
Thanks to the strike, we missed The Little Mermaid and Legally Blonde.
Happy New Year to all!
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
Updated On: 12/31/07 at 10:58 PM
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
#57re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 12/31/07 at 10:59pm
oh my god... I re-update mine again.. I was about to go to bed.. then I realized I saw
Doubt, DRS & Kiki & Herb in Boston....then I looked at my playbill box.. yup- its all 2007 and I think Light in the Piazza at the Colonial and another show at the Wimberly Theater- cant remember the title?
and my 10/10 Report on Kiki & Herb: Alive from Broadway (earliest 10/10 Report I did with no format yet )
https://boston.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=939079&dt=0
Total = 65 shows (with 3 shows that I did not show up for some reasons)
J*
Updated On: 1/8/08 at 10:59 PM
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#58re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 12/31/07 at 11:00pm
I'd taken a little break from Broadway until this year, so my list is very short:
Company - 6
Rent - 5
110 in the Shade
Gypsy at City Center
The Homecoming - BCEFA reading
The Little Mermaid
Concerts/Other:
Neil Young
Patrick Street - 2
Adam Pascal
Kathy Griffin - 2
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
#59re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 12/31/07 at 11:45pm
Shows I paid to see (If not Broadway, it's indicated):
Grey Gardens
Honor and the River-Montclair, NJ.
21st Annual Easter Bonnet Competition
Spring Awakening
Boys in the Band (benefit reading)
Missing Celia Rose (Summer Play Festival)
Xanadu
The Ritz
The Yellow Wood (New York Musical Festival)
19th Annual Gypsy of the Year Competition
What I saw because of work (bartending for the Shuberts):
Frost/Nixon
A Chorus Line
The Little Dog Laughed
Phantom of the Opera
Inherit the Wind
Les Miserables
Spamalot
The Year of Magical Thinking
Chicago
The Color Purple
Avenue Q
Mamma Mia
Is He Dead?
On MTV:
Legally Blonde
In 2008 I'm looking forward to working and seeing:
August: Osage County
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
But most especially:
Billy Elliot
I killed the boss, you don't think they're gonna fire me over a thing like that!!!!
#60re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 12:51am
Hairspray on Tour
Hairspray on Tour
Anything Goes
Mamma Mia
The Producers
Mary Poppins
Curtains
Hairspray
Spring Awakening
Xanadu
Rent
Drowsy Chaperone
Boston Pops- forgot that one!
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Updated On: 1/1/08 at 12:51 AM
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Featured Actor Joined: 11/8/06
#61re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 12:55am
rent twice
a chorus line
drowsy chaperone
chicago
spring awakening
that's all=/
#62re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 1:01amI'm jealous of all you people who have good jobs and can afford to see all these shows! lol
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#63re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 1:11am
Tryouts
Legally Blonde 8x
Sit-downs
Wicked – Los Angeles 2x
Special Engagements
Spelling Bee – Los Angeles
Porgy & Bess – Concert with James Inglehart
National Tours
Jersey Boys – San Francisco (Chicago Company)
The Color Purple
Sweeney Todd
Light in the Piazza
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Camelot 2x
All Shook Up
Altar Boyz 2x
Avenue Q 2x
Regional
Les Miserablres – Sacramento Music Circus 2x
Jekyll & Hyde – Music Circus
Community Theatre
Secret Garden
Guys And Dolls
Lend Me A Tenor
Miracle on 34th St
Yeah I didn’t see nearly the amount of regional/community theatre that I saw in 2006. I should rectify that in 2008.
Edited to add stuff I forgot.
Updated On: 1/1/08 at 01:11 AM
#64re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 1:11am
Everyone's lists are soo amazing...Here is mine! :)
-The Apple Tree
-Hairspray
-Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (Paper Mill Playhouse)
-PIRATES! (Paper Mill Playhouse)
-PIRATES! (Paper Mill Playhouse)
-Legally Blonde
-Wicked
-RENT
-RENT
-The Drowsy Chaperone
-Hairspray
-Legally Blonde
-RENT
-Happy Days: The Musical (Paper Mill Playhouse)
-RENT
-Meet Me In St. Louis (Paper Mill Playhouse)
-The Drowsy Chaperone
-Wicked
Rotel1026
Broadway Star Joined: 8/12/06
#65re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 1:33am
NYC:
Xanadu (x2)
Rent
Curtains
110 in the Shade
Spelling Bee
Spring Awakening
Jersey Boys
Frost/Nixon
Beauty and the Beast
Avenue Q
Glorious Ones
Pygmalion
Grinch
Seafarer
Ritz
Is He Dead
Young Frankenstein
Radio City Christmas Spectacular
Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening
Little Mermaid
August: Osage County
Wicked
Tour:
Lion King
Spamalot
Local:
Take Me Out
Dreamgirls (TUTS)
This year surpassed my greatest total since I made it to New York twice and stayed a week each time. Probably will make it back to NYC again in April and will probably see more local productions here in town, not sure I will make it to NYC more than once though.
#66re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 2:07amI saw 7 shows. 5 were local productions; the other 2 were Broadway shows and those were Jersey Boys and Legally Blonde.
<--Sometimes it's easier to get out of a jam than into one
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#67re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 2:14am
1. Wicked
2. Phantom of the Opera
3. Les Miserables
4. Annie Get Your Gun (Tampa)
5. Les Miserables
6. Les Miserables
7. Spamalot
8. Linda Eder / Michael Feinstein @ the DuPont (DE)
9. Les Miserables
Not all too interesting...Hope to improve next year with a more "diverse" group (well, no more Les Mis!).
BlueWindSadness
Stand-by Joined: 12/28/07
#68re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 2:20am
im including all repeats-
1.) The Apple Tree
2.) Kristen Chenoweth at the Met Opera House
3.) The Apple Tree
4.) RENT
5.) Wicked
6.) Spring Awakening
7.) Drowsy Chaperone (London)
8.) Wicked (London)
9.) Avenue Q
9.5) Spring Awakening (edit: i forgot this one.... )
10.) Chicago
11.) Mary Poppins
12.) RENT
13.) Spring Awakening
14.) Spring Awakening (on stage!!!)
15.) Mary Poppins
16.) Spring Awakening
17.) Young Frankenstein (im going tomorrow....but close enough :)
hope everyone has a wonderful new years eve/day! :)
"that's what my date said."
Updated On: 1/1/08 at 02:20 AM
#69re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 3:11am
The Light in the Piazza- January 13 (Tour in Des Moines)
Hairspray- April 22 (Tour in Iowa City)
Wicked- April 25 (Chicago sitdown)
The Light in the Piazza- July 22 (Tour in Chicago)
Hairspray- October 31 (Tour in Cedar Rapids)
Wicked- December 15 (Tour in St. Louis)
#70re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 4:38am
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Opening and Closing Nights, Los Angeles
Wicked, Pantages Theater
Avenue Q, Ahmanson Theater
La Boheme, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
"You mean what was the best picture of the year or what did they pick as the best picture of the year?" - California Suite
#71re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 8:09am
2007 we saw:
Broadway:
The Apple Tree
CHICAGO
Hairspray
Beauty and the Beast
Mary Poppins
Mamma Mia
The Lion King
Drowsy Chaperone
Curtains
A Chorus Line
Legally Blonde
Wicked in Chicago
Mamma Mia on tour
Others: (Community Theatre)
You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Nunsense A-Men!
Nuncrackers
Gypsy
yankee_fan907
Leading Actor Joined: 10/14/06
#72re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 11:27amJust one unfortunately - Mary Poppins.
broadwayfan3
Stand-by Joined: 1/18/07
#73re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 12:02pm
1. Alter Boyz
2. A Chorus Line
3. A Chorus Line
4. Curtains
5. Gypsy (Encores)
6. Jersey Boys
7. Legally Blonde
8. Legally Blonde
9. Mary Poppins
10. Mary Poppins
11. Rent
12. The Little Mermaid
13. Young Frankenstein
14. Xanadu
15. Forbidden Broadway-Rude Awakening
16. Tarzan
17. The Drowsy Chaperone
Plus watching Legally Blonde a lot on MTV.....
"Bitch I don't know your life"-Andre Ward, Xanadu
#74re: How many shows did you see in 2007?
Posted: 1/1/08 at 12:07pm
Hey, Happy New Year !
1) Les Mis
2) The Sound of Music
3) Billy Elliot
4) Porgy and Bess
5) Spamalot
6) Cabaret
7) Chicago 
Wicked
9) Evita
10) Daddy Cool
11) We Will Rock You
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"Have you got stage fright, dear?"
"No," the young lady aswered astonished.
"Don't worry, it will come along with talent!"
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