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#51

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 6:30am

WRQ- I don't have to list them all. Just figure every musical on broadway, most off-broadway, ranging from once per show to 26 times per show. You get the idea.

#52

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 6:36am

I saw 4 last year:

Wicked
Rent
BKLYN
DRS

This Year:
Sweeney
SWIWS

#53

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 6:41am

With the exception of Jersey Boys, which I will see eventually, I've seen every musical to open on Broadway at least once. I've seen most (if not all) that opened off-Broadway too.

#54

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 6:44am

since AUgust 6th

Bway
In My Life (x2)
Sweeney Todd
Fiddler on the Roof

Off Bway
Trailer Park (x2)
Altar Boyz (x2)

Off Off Bway
Merrily We Roll Along

Fringe Fest
The Day the WOrld Went Queer (x2)
You Again
Silence
Swimming Upstream

NYMF
But I'm a Cheerleader
A Bangers Floppera
Feeling Electric
Monica The Musical

Special Events
Sounds of Silence

Community
Aida

Pre-june
Altar Boyz
Rent
Wicked (x3)
Hairspray
Copacobana (community)
Les Mis School Edition (x3 community)
Assassins (student production)
Brooklyn

I think thats all.

so in total 10 broadway (including multiples)
5 Off Bway
9 Festival
1 off off
1 special event
5 community

this has been a busy year for me. i only have weekends since school eats my life, and only a fw weekends cause train tickets eat my money.

when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.

#55

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 7:19am

This year:
RENT
Lion King
Wicked
Spelling Bee
Fiddler (High school production)

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#56

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 9:07am

42nd Street (closing day, and 8 times before that)
The Producers (x 5)
La Cage Aux Folles
700 Sundays (I know, probably doesn't count, but its NY Theater)
Hairspray (12 times)

"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys

#57

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 9:30am

Wicked 3 or 4
Producers 2
Spelling Bee 4
Fiddler
DRS
Piazza
Hairspray
Lion King
Little Women
Woman in White
Rent
Glass Menagerie
Virginia Woolf

Off B-way:
SWIWS
Drumstruck- if that counts

National Tour:
Les Mis.

Regional/Community:
Jekyll and Hyde

High School:
Footloose
West Side Story
Man of La Mancha
Les Mis. School Edition
Jekyll and Hyde
Kimberly Akimbo

Will try to see by the end of the year:
Sweeney Todd and Ave Q

#58

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:29am

This school year, from September 1st until now, I have seen:

Lennon
Movin' Out
The Light in the Piazza
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Miracle Brothers
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Fiddler on the Roof
All Shook Up
Merrily We Roll Along
In My Life
A Woman of Will
Jersey Boys
See What I Wanna See
Five Course Love
Sweet Charity
The Ark
Slut
The Color Purple
The Apple Tree
Is There Life After High School?
Sweeney Todd
Good News
The '60s Project
Bingo
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The Lion King (ugh)
The Goddess Wheel
Almost Heaven
Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life
Junie B. Jones

and probably more that I can't remember...

[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

#59

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:47am

so far in 2005, i have seen 65 professional shows in NYC...that includes doubles, triples and the five times i saw both Charity and Piazza.

#60

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:53am

I'm lagging slightly behind that on 42 professional productions this year - 6 on Broadway, 29 in London and 7 UK tours (including doubles etc)

#61

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:57am

Liotte..hmm...how's 150 as an approximation?

"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

#62

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:57am

I won't type them all out -- it would take too much time and effort -- but I've seen just under 100 professional shows in the New York area so far this year (Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, City Center, BAM, Papermill, The Delacorte etc....). I only saw four shows more than once (twice each; two were shows that transferred from off to On Broadway that I wanted to see again to determine how well they held up in their new venues).

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

#63

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 12:01pm

Which simply means, "Margo is our master."

Which is fine with me.

I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.

#64

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 12:08pm

WRQ- I think it may be more than that...

#65

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 12:12pm

Liotte, I put you at 200 shows, 100 Broadway related gatherings and 50 sporting events. The other 15 days you rested.

I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.

#66

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 12:15pm

Now that sounds more accurate!

#67

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 1:24pm

I see about two shows a week.

#68

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 3:35pm

Can I ask how you guys manage to afford and make time to see all these shows? Do you always use TKTS or get lottery tickets? Do you usually go alone? I'm absolutely astounded by some of these posts.

#69

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 5:01pm

tdf, discount codes, student rush, ask for theater tickets for birthdays and holidays

#70

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 5:05pm

Avenue Q (4X)
Little Women (2X)
Laugh Whore
Dessa Rose (3X)
La Cage aux Folles (2X)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Light in the Piazza (2X)
Sweet Charity
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(2X)
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
West End- Mary Poppins (2X)
West End- The Woman in White
West End- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Papermill- Ragtime (2X)
Summer of ’42 Benefit Concert
Chicago
Sweeney Tood (2X)
Hurricane Benefit Concert
On the 20th Century BCEFA Concert
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
A Dancer’s Life
Bea Arthur: Back on Broadway
Rent

I will be seeing Sweeney Todd and Avenue Q agian and the Color Purple in the near future.

Happy...Everything! Kaye Thompson

Updated On: 12/5/05 at 05:05 PM

#71

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 5:14pm

I average one or two shows a month. Mostly musicals. I would say at least 10 to 12 musicals a year.

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by moments that take our breath away." "Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain."

#72

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 5:57pm

Broadway:
LITP (2)
Wicked (2)
Fiddler
Spelling Bee
Spamalot
La Cage
Phantom
Producers
Little Women
Doubt

Off Broadway:
Musical of Musicals

I feel like I am forgetting something - but it looks like about once a month I see a show.

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#73

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 6:30pm

I've seen more musicals in the past year and a half/two years than I've ever seen in my life...

3 in NY:
Rent, Spelling Bee, Pillowman(not a musical, but whatever)

8 professional ones in LA *most paid for by my amazing friend Jessica

*:
Hairspray, Lil Shop, Les Mis, Oklahoma, Chicago, Wicked, Annie, Drowsy Chaperone

1 community theatre type show:
The Possession of Mrs. Jones

1 performing arts HS production in LA:
Fame

And at this kids theatre place I go 2/kinda work at in LA, I've seen each of these shows countless times:
School House Rock, Oliver, Oklahoma, Bye Bye Birdie, YAGMCB, A Chorus Line, Footloose, Bugsy Malone, Seussical, and Aladdin

Updated On: 12/5/05 at 06:30 PM

#74

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 7:31pm

My friends and I try to see one show a month. So far I've seen 9 but I have tickets for 1 more before this year is up.

#75

re: How often do you see musicals in a year?

Posted: 12/5/05 at 8:27pm

I try to get to New York at least twice a year for long weekends. I pack as many shows as possible into four days. This past weekend, I saw five, my personal record.

I also have season tickets for Broadway Across America, which includes six shows. Then, I see pretty much anything and everything that comes to South Florida.

So far this year, I've seen 12 Broadway shows, 3 tours, 2 reviews and 1 Off-Broadway show.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson

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