How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Penny4Eyes
Stand-by Joined: 9/11/05
#0How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 10:47am7 haha i was so young but i saw beauty and the beast and then i knew i wanted to be up there. so i got my mom to take me to auditions.
Penny4Eyes
Stand-by Joined: 9/11/05
#1re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 10:50amanyone?
Penny4Eyes
Stand-by Joined: 9/11/05
#2re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 10:53amok there is no one???? goshy goshy goshy!
popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#3re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 10:59am
People will respond to your post! Just give them time.
My first Broadway show was Beauty and the Beast, and I saw a bunch of shows after that, but they really didn't make me fall in love with Broadway. I think the first show that really did it for me was Hairspray. It was just really amazing.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 11:01amI'd saw I fell in love with FIDDLER in 7th grade when I played Mordcha for the first time. And then fell for like WICKED, ASU and all them just recently thru the discovery of shows outside of school.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 11:02am
My first show- Beauty and The Beast
Show that made me fall in love w/ Broadway- Wicked
First role I fell in love with acting with- Mordcha, Fiddler On The Roof.
#6re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 11:04am
I got Rent for my 16th birthday...love at first sight of Adam and Anthony.
Since then, I'm been working like hell to catch up.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
#7re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 11:06amI'm showing my age here, but I was 8 years old when my parents took me to see the first national tour of "1776." Not that it's great for kids (but it's not a bad show for them either). They both had a friend who was in it, so we went to see him perform. They were worried I might be bored, but I was mesmerized through the whole thing. I loved the music, the costumes, the big unit set, the story, and everything about it. I remember my mother crying through "Mama, Look Sharp." Looking at her, I understood how powerful live theatre could be. I got completely scared when Edward Rutledge sang "Molasses to Rum" and the set turned an eerie blood-red from the lights that were seeping through the windows. Very disturbing and sinister. That memory stayed with me until I was in college. Our University did "1776," and I was lucky enough to play Rutledge in that production. It meant so much to be in the show that "started it all" for me!
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Penny4Eyes
Stand-by Joined: 9/11/05
#8re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 11:11amcool. then my mom signed me up for voice lessons twice a week, acting twice, and tap , jazz , and ballet once a week and thats still how it is
#9re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 11:24amfirst show i saw was grease when i was 4, first show feel in love with was hairspray when i was 11.
#10re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 11:38am
I saw my first show at six; I loved the experience, and went to the theatre a lot as a kid.
I fell in love with a show for the first time at thirteen, though; Aida.
#11re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 11:40amFirst shows I saw were Joseph...Dreamcoat, Annie, and Music Man. I was around 5 or 6. Loved singing along to them. Went to tons of shows throughout the years, but the show that got me addicted to Broadway? Rent, way back in 95 when I was 16.
Penny4Eyes
Stand-by Joined: 9/11/05
#12re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 11:43ami saw les miz when i was 8 and its still my fave show
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#13re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 11:48amI saw Beauty and the Beast on Broadway when I was 12 years old. I got the cast recording and fell in love with it. Then the OBCRs grew and grew. Now I love tons more!
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#14re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 11:49amIt was the night before my birthday and my mom and I were deciding which show to see in NYC for it (which never happened). Then I saw the 42nd Street tour in January the following year and was hooked.
#15re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 11:52am
I was about 15. Sooooo many years ago.
Updated On: 9/17/05 at 11:52 AM
#16re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 12:09pmLes Mis at 8 made me fall in love with theater
#17re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 12:09pmI didn't see it on Broadway, but the first musical I fell in love with was "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" when I was about 6 years old.
broadwaybaby654
Featured Actor Joined: 6/21/04
#18re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 12:50pmWhen I was 6, I saw the tour of caurosel...AMAZING!!!!
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#19re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 12:52pm
7 years old - ALW's POTO.
I only had the recording, I didn't see it live until I was in middle school but I became obsessed with the show acting it out with friends and choreographing dances for the music.
Jeez...my geekiness started showing at a pretty young age.
One Song Glory
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/12/05
#20re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 12:58pm4 or 5. When I saw the Cats video.
#21re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 12:59pm6 years old with The Phantom of the Opera. I saw the show in Australia at that age and loved it. ^__^ I became obsessed with it after that.
#22re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 1:02pmI was 8, when i fell in love with Hairspray.
theatrebabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/22/05
#23re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 1:07pmHmmmm, the first time I fell in love with musical that was still on Broadway was probably RENT when I was like 11. But I was into musicals way before then. Just none that were on Broadway at that time I guess.
-cheezedoodle
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#24re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 1:13pm
Wow. Let's see if I can think back...
Even though it's one of my least favorite musicals, I'd have to say that it started with Annie when I was around seven. But my real passion for it came from the Les Miserables concert tape. I was ten.
I <3 musical theatre!
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