How many shows have you seen on Broadway?

[PlayItAgain]

Posted: 6/7/13 at 9:51pm

So i decided to sit down and figure out how many shows I have seen on broadway since my first show (HAIR at the Al Hirschfeld on November 1st 2009)

Curious if anyone can beat me

(I maybe missing one here and there but here it goes)

All the shows I've seen on broadway:

Ambassador (1): Chicago

American Airlines(9):Everyday Rapture-Mrs. Warrens Profession-The Importance of Being Earnest-Man & Boy-The Road to Mecca-Don't Dress for Dinner-Cyrano de Bergerac-Picnic-The Big Knife

Brooks Atkinson(4): Rock of Ages-Relatively Speaking-Peter and the Starcatcher-Hands on a Hardbody (2x)

Barrymore(7): Race-Elling (2x including opening night)-Arcadia-Patti and Mandy-Death of a Salesman-Chaplin-Macbeth

Beaumont(3): A Free Man of Color-War Horse-Ann

Belasco(4): Women on The Verge-Kathy Griffin-End of The Rainbow-Golden Boy

Booth(5): Next to Normal-High-Other Desert Cities-Virginia Woolf?-I'll Eat You Last

Broadhurst(5): Merchant of Venice-Baby It's You!-Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway-A Streetcar Named Desire-Lucky Guy

Broadway(3): Promises, Promises-Sister Act-Cinderella

Circle in the Square(2): Lombardi-Godspell (3x including opening & NYE 2011)

Cort(7): Fences-Time Stand Still-Born Yesterday-Stick Fly-The Lyons-Grace
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Foxwoods(1): Spiderman

Samuel J. Friedman(9): The Pitman Painters-Good People-Master Class-Venus in Fur-Wit-The Columnist-An Enemy of the People-The Other Place-The Assembled Parties

Golden(6): Red-Driving Miss Daisy-Normal Heart-Seminar-The Anarchist
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Helen Hayes(2): Next Fall-Colin Quinn Long Story Short

Al Hirschfeld(4): Hair (1st show)-Elf The Musical-How To Succeed In Business (2x)-Kinky Boots

Imperial(1): Nice Work If You Can Get It

Jacobs(7): Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (3x including opening & closing)-That Championship Season-The Mountaintop-Once

Walter Kerr (6): A Little Night Music-House of Blue Leaves-Lysistrata Jones-Clybourne Park-The Heiress-Testament of Mary

Longacre(5): La Cage aux Folles-Chinglish-Magic/Bird-Mike Tyson Undisputed Truth-The Performers

Lunt-Fontanne(4): The Addams Family-Ghost-A Christmas Story-Motown

Lyceum(3): The Scottsboro Boys-Ghetto Klown-The Nance

Majestic(1): Phantom of the Opera (25th anniversary performance)

Marquis(5): Donny & Marie A Broadway Christmas-Wonderland-Follies
Evita-Jekyll & Hyde (closing night)

Music Box(: Superior Donuts-La Bete-Jerusalem (2x)-Private Lives- Shatner's World: We Just Live In It- One Man, Two Guvnors-Dead Accounts-Pippin

Nederlander(1): Newsies

New Amsterdam(1): Mary Poppins

O'Neill(2): Fela!-The Book of Mormon

Palace(3):West Side Story-Priscilla-Annie (with Jane Lynch)

Rodgers(4): In The Heights-Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo-Porgy and Bess-
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

St James(7): Finian's Rainbow-American Idiot- Hair (Summer engagement 3x's)-On a Clear Day-Leap of Faith, Bring It On, Manilow on Broadway

Schoenfeld(7): A Behanding in Spokane-A Life in the Theatre-Mother****er With The Hat-Bonnie & Clyde (closing)- The Best Man-Glenngary Glen Ross-Orphans

Shubert(1):Matilda

Neil Simon(4): RAIN-Catch Me If You Can-Jesus Christ Superstar-Scandalous

Sondheim(3): Pee-Wee Herman Show-Anything Goes-The Trip To Bountiful

Studio 54(5): Wishful Drinking-Brief Encounter-People In The Picture-Harvey-Edwin Drood

August Wilson(1): Jersey Boys

149 shows in 3 and a half years

[ljay889]

Posted: 6/7/13 at 10:01pm

We've been through this. And many people can beat you. Why is it a competition? Updated On: 6/7/13 at 10:01 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/7/13 at 10:02pm

You think someone can beat him, really? How may people really went to the theatre before 2009?

[PlayItAgain]

Posted: 6/7/13 at 10:03pm

^ well the negativity sure came quick and it was obviously a joke i know tons can beat me :P

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 6/7/13 at 10:11pm

My tally currently stands at 298 total performances. It would take too long to type it out, but the biggest repeat viewings have been AMERICAN IDIOT (25X) and JERUSALEM (7X).

[gchris11]

Posted: 6/7/13 at 10:20pm

I can beat it. I have to wait until I get home and tally the playbills.

[wicked4l]

Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:12pm

I just hit my 173rd show yesterday! 98 different shows total, the rest are repeats. Moved here in 2010 so I'm not doing bad!

[ljay889]

Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:20pm

I just think bragging threads like this are a little silly. Somebody is always going to beat somebody with show tallies. I know one person who has seen WICKED over 200x.

[jackieoh]

Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:37pm

Threads like this remind me why I deleted my account back in 2011. There is an unrelenting elitism that goes along with theatre-going these days. Who cares how many shows you've seen on Broadway? Why are you trying to one-up others who may not have the same access to the city or the same excess funds to dedicate to theatre-going that you have? Instead of posting in this forum trying to impress? conquer? one-up? the other members here, why don't you take some time think about how LUCKY you are to have had all of those incredible experiences in the audiences of Broadway companies.

I am grateful to have seen many, many shows on Broadway at such a young age, but tallying the numbers and the playbills seems fruitless and silly. There are tremendous memories and sentiments attached to the theatre and it makes me sad that a curtain call is just another tally for some.

[PlayItAgain]

Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:41pm

^ oh shut up you old queen and let me have my fun :P im not trying to one up anyone and was trying to encourage others to take a look back at what they've seen.

[ljay889]

Posted: 6/8/13 at 1:12am

Why are you resulting to name calling? You come across as very immature.

why don't you take some time think about how LUCKY you are to have had all of those incredible experiences in the audiences of Broadway companies.

This is such an amazing point. Sometimes it's just nice to reflect on all of the wonderful experiences and memories you have had seeing Broadway shows. Bragging about totals means nothing.

[amoni2]

Posted: 6/8/13 at 12:12pm

I think the technical term is... a ****load.