I was 7 years old. It's been hell ever since.
15, Wicked.
6, Beauty and the Beast.
21...I just went to NY this past spring for the first time and saw Drowsy, Tarzan, Grey Gardens, Hairspray, Spring Awakening...and Spring Awakening in 5 days.
Akiva
7 years old, Christmas of 1987 - We saw Les Miserables and Into the Woods in a row. Les Mis was technically my first show but I wish my parents had done it the other way around, it would be about 800 times cooler to be able to say Into the Woods.
Ok... maybe just in my dorky world it would be.
13. Thoroughly Modern Millie. January 17th, 2004. My Birthday.
16 - Rent, January 25,2005 and it was a gift for my birhtday, which was two weeks earlier.
15. I got to see CATS at the Winter Garden just before it closed.
I saw Annie Get Your Gun with Bernadette Peters on Sept 25, 1999.
I was 7.
I saw BATB in London when I was 5 or 6, though.
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/06
11. Thoroughly Modern Millie.
13...I'm gonna count Phantom of the Opera in toronto. A truly life-changing experience.
I was 15. 1990. Jerome Robbins Broadway(and then 4 other shows after that).
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
6, Beauty and the Beast
Featured Actor Joined: 5/21/07
I was 13 when I saw Irving Berlin's MISS LIBERTY at the Imperial Theatre on the day after Thanksgiving in 1949.
Updated On: 7/31/07 at 10:42 PM
14...Phantom of the Opera with a school trip, Changed my life forever... (not to sound overly dramatic)
18, Beauty and the Beast. it unfortunately took me that long....
I know I was 7 when I saw Beauty and the Beast. But I saw a production of Peter Pan before that and nobody in my family can remember if it was on Broadway or on a tour of some kind. So I just say Beauty in the Beast is my first Broadway show.
I was 14. The show was SEESAW with Michele Lee, John Gavin and a very youthful Tommy Tune! At the Uris (now the Gershwin) Theatre. I made my parents take me from the Boston Area to NYC just to see a Broadway show! They were great--they took me!!
I was 12. It was August of 1968 and my first trip to New York. We saw Fiddler On The Roof with Harry Goz at the Majestic Theatre.
Lost my virginity at 17 at THE LION KING.
Theater snobs should note that my theater obsession was cemented by seeing, soon afterwards, the film adaptation of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
That's right: I want to be a part of theater because of both Disney, the corporate whore of the theater world, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Puccini-stealing hack... of the theater world.
HA!
I was 2, Beauty and the Beast.
December 14, 1994.
8 or 9. The Music Man.
First Broadway play 5 years old-1987 Les Liaisons Dangereuses
First Broadway musical 6 years old-1988 Phantom of the Opera
That's a really weird way of putting it, but when I was five my parents took me to see Beauty and the Beast and I cried through the whole thing because I was so scared. So I'm not gonna count that. But, on March 4, 2005, I went to see Little Women, and, not to sound dramatic, I walked out of that theatre a completely different person. And Sutton Foster just dazzled me-still my favorite Broadway actress!
I was 10, Lion King, 2000. Luckily, I didn't give up after that was so dissapointing...
Updated On: 8/1/07 at 12:50 AM
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