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How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Penny4Eyes
Stand-by Joined: 9/11/05
#50re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/17/05 at 8:43pmcoolioroni...wow im strange!
BroadwayDoc
Stand-by Joined: 9/17/05
#51re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/18/05 at 9:54amMy parents took me to my first Broadway show when I was 5, been hooked ever since.
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#52re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/18/05 at 10:04am
When I was four, I used to stand in front of the Hi-Fi (a pre-stereo for you youngsters 
) and yell out, "D*mn, d*mn, d*mn, d*mn, d*mn, DAMN!" - and then furiously conduct the full recording of MY FAIR LADY. It was probably a sign of a great many things.
#53re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/18/05 at 10:05am
Initial first show that made me fall in love with Broadway was Les Mis as the age of 4. I'd run around singing master of the house
My first Broadway show was actually Rocky Horror Show
Show that sparked my true Broadway fanhood was Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, now I can't stop listening to my OCR's and my collection keeps growing and I keep goin' back to the city for more!
Penny4Eyes
Stand-by Joined: 9/11/05
#54re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/18/05 at 10:52ami have been young cosette/ young eponine u/s gavroche in a community theater version that looked EXACTLY like the bway version
#55re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/18/05 at 11:00amaccording to my mother, while watching The King and I with Yul Brynner and Gertrude Lawrence, I was tapping out the rhythm in the womb.......so I'd have to say a VERY long time.......
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#56re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/18/05 at 11:43am7th grade was when it TRULY started for me... with the musical Cats (wow, how far I've come.) But even before that I was obsessed with the tapes of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella and Annie, though I was really little at that time (like 6 or 7) and didn't understand that they were musicals... I didn't understand the concept. I just thought they were movies where people sang. Live-action Disney movies, if you will. But Cats was the first show I really fell in love with.
mikewood
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/05
#57re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/18/05 at 3:19pm
I didn't see my first Broadway show until I was in my very early thirties.
Several moments stand out that illicited amazing reactions...."falling in love as it were.
... the amazing Cheno singing "My New Philosophy" in "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown"
.... Eponine dies in Marius arms....
.... sitting in the first row behind the pit in the orchestra and being the last to turn and see the opening processional in "Lion King".
... "Without You" in Rent
....Brian Stokes Mitchell and the "Impossible Dream."
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mikewood
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/05
#58re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/18/05 at 3:25pm
I'm so jealous now that I've read all the ages of you all when you saw your first Broadway show.
I only have myself to blame. My parents invited me but I always said "no."
I also used to insist on hot dogs when they invited me to have lobster.
Ah, to be young and inexperienced again.
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#59re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/18/05 at 4:42pmmy first show was peter pan when i was five. i still have the playbill. however the first one i really remember being in awe of was joseph with michael damian. oh the memories!
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
bwayballerina
Broadway Star Joined: 11/14/04
#60re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/18/05 at 4:46pm
When I was in first grade, my dance recital number was to "Over the Rainbow" from the Wizard of Oz. I loved the song (and the dance), and when I found out that my friend's older sister was in a community theatre production of the Wizard of Oz, I begged my mom to take me, and she did. :) And a couple of years later, I saw the touring production and got Jessica Grove to sign my playbill (she was Dorothy). Which is kind of cool to me now, since she was in Millie and other Broadway shows. So even though I've never been to New York, I've technically met a Broadway actor.
And of course, since The Wizard of Oz, I've just fallen completely in love with musical theatre :)
#61re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/18/05 at 8:14pmOMG, I forgot about dance recital songs!! When I was 5 I was obsessed with the song 'Send in the Clowns.' What foreshadowing!
#62re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/18/05 at 11:48pmWhen I was 12 and the first nat'l tour of B&TB came to town. It was the first professional show I ever saw and I was in love from the first note of the prologue.
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tmz814
Broadway Star Joined: 8/21/03
#63re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/19/05 at 12:09am
I was in 7th grade when I begged my mom to take me to see Les Mis and the rest is history...
I actually think my love of broadway really began in the womb. It's all my mother's fault. My mom (who really doesn't like the city and doesn't go to see shows that often... usless I darg) spent the entire summer when she was pregnant with me going to see Broadway shows. She would go into the city every Wednesday with a friend and they would see a new show.... So I guess it's really all her fault.. haha
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#64re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/19/05 at 12:36am
Hmm I think the first one I watched was "The King and I", and although I loved it the first one I fell in love with was "The Music Man". Everyone in my family knew the movie and the songs by heart. At first I wanted to be Marion (still do), but now I also want to be Mrs. Shinn (Hermione Gingold is so funny <3).
Mmm the first pro stage show I saw was "Phantom of the Opera", which I loooooved. My mom had been playing the casettes (yes casettes, darlings) since I was real little.
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NightLaughs
Leading Actor Joined: 6/26/04
#65re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/19/05 at 8:14am
15.
Just downloaded the entire Rent Original Broadway Cast Recording. I listened to it on a loop for weeks, was obsessed, couldn't get the songs out of my head. I begged my dad to take me to see it on Broadway, he easily agreed, and I've been hooked on Broadway ever since.
And Rent will always be my first love. :)
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rmposey
Stand-by Joined: 5/13/04
#66re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/19/05 at 9:35amIt seems so long ago...My parents purchased the cassettes of Phantom when I was around 8. I loved it immeasurably and forced my childhood friends to act it out with me. After Phantom, Les Miserables, Cats and Aspects of Love followed closely. I fear my Broadway knowledge was rather limited in my youth. =)
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Fiyero2
Stand-by Joined: 9/1/05
#67re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/19/05 at 9:04pm8 or 9 when i saw the music man revival w/ craig bierko
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#68re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/19/05 at 9:07pmWhen I was 12. Les Mis. Ah Love.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#69re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/19/05 at 10:05pmI watched movie musicals growing up as if they were sesame street, they were something that was always on in my house. The first musical I remember falling in love with was The Sound of Music. I knew all the words to "I am 16 going on 17" before I could count to 16 or 17. I love all the classics like Music Man and Singing in the Rain cause those were the first shows that I saw on both stage and screen.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#70re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/19/05 at 10:15pmI was in high school, sometime around the Stone Age
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#71re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/19/05 at 10:50pmI have to admit that I didn't really enjoy my very few experiences when I was really young in comparison to what I appreciate and see on stage as someone slightly older, now. Not too long ago...middle school was when I finally appreciated MT for what I think it's worth. I use to like straight plays sooo much more than MT, but don't tell anyone I said that.
#72re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/19/05 at 11:46pm
I fell in love when I saw Annie when I was 11.
And I had no training for my voice at this point so I remember basically yelling, "MAYBE FAR AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY"
haha
oh boy.
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miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#73re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/20/05 at 12:38am
When I was 3, my parents took me see Mary Martin in The Sound of Music. I knew every word to every song because I listened to the album at home all the time. I fell in love with Mary Martin and saw TSOM twice more.
Then my parents took me to see Ethel Merman in the revival of "Annie Get Your Gun" and I thought it was sensational. Irving Berlin was a genius. Ethel Merman was the original Tracey Turnblad, I swear. I saw that twice more as well.
The revival of "Oklahoma" with Margaret Hamilton as Aunt Eller along with Lee Roy Reems as Will Parker is unforgettable for me. We saw EVERYTHING when we were kids. My parents were at the theatre 4-5 times a week! It is one of their greatest gifts to me and the thing I do that brings me closest to them now that they are gone.
Big in our house while I was growing up:
1776
The Happy Time
Company
Follies
Hello Dolly
I Love My Wife
Pippin
Mame
Bravo Giovanni
The Most Happy Fella
Guys and Dolls
No, No, Nanette
Sweet Charity
I love musicals.
I've been hooked since 3.
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Swing Joined: 9/14/05
#74re: How old were you when you fell in love with a broadway musical?
Posted: 9/20/05 at 2:10am
When I was 7 my parents took me to see the tour of Hello Dolly with Carol Channing, this was the most recent one, and I'd seen the movie so much that I sat in my seat(propped up by 2 pillows) and sang every word along with the cast. I was hooked then and there!
But my first broadway show was Gypsy with Bernadette Peters which was pretty amazing.
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