Posted: 7/12/26 at 12:33pm
I know this is probably the most basic theatre related question out there but let’s face it these broadway world message boards can be a little bit too much for one person to take. So I think it’s about time to bring some simple light hearted discussion back to these boards once and for all with this question: if you could go back in time and see one broadway show in person, what would it be?
Posted: 7/12/26 at 12:53pm
A tie. "Merrily We Roll Along" and "Into The Woods". Original productions.
Updated On: 7/12/26 at 12:53 PM
Posted: 7/12/26 at 1:01pm
The one R&H I have yet to see, ME AND JULIET. It pretty much doesn't get done.
Posted: 7/12/26 at 1:01pm
Streisand's "Funny Girl"
Posted: 7/12/26 at 1:22pm
Godspell, original Toronto cast. I can't WAIT for the documentary.
Posted: 7/12/26 at 1:35pm
Tenor8674 said: "The one R&H I have yet to see, ME AND JULIET. It pretty much doesn't get done."
You would then get to see Shirley MacLaine’s Broadway debut in the dance ensemble. On this show is where she met Joan McCracken and took her in-between matinee performances acting classes. Shirley also met at this time, Joan’s husband, future choreographer/director, dancer Bob Fosse. 2 years later, Shirley’s life and career would change overnight while understudying one of THE PAJAMA GAME’s leads, Carol Haney. Shirley would later go on to kickstart Bob Fosse’s career as a legendary film director by demanding he direct her in the 1969 film adaptation of his SWEET CHARITY, not just choreograph it, which Universal Pictures had initially only intended to hire him for.
Posted: 7/12/26 at 1:51pm
I’d definitely see Ethel Merman in Gypsy. I think she is so perfect in the bootlegs I’ve heard, I don’t really think any of these other women ever came close to being nearly as good as she was in the role.
Posted: 7/12/26 at 1:59pm
May 1966 -- great broadway musical shows on the boards: Mame, Sweet Charity, Man of La Rancha, Funny Girl, Hello, Dolly!, Golden Boy, A Time for Singing, Skyscraper, Merman in Annie Get Your Gun revival, off-off- Broadway Cafe Cino Bernadette Peters in 1 hour version of Dames at Sea, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever with Harris and Cullum. New York City Center revival of Wonderful town with Elaine Stritch, final weeks of Hal Prince's Superman.
Posted: 7/12/26 at 2:03pm
OBC cast of A Chorus Line.
Posted: 7/12/26 at 2:08pm
Carrie -- and I'm not trying to be funny.
Updated On: 7/12/26 at 02:08 PM
Posted: 7/12/26 at 2:27pm
TheatreMonkey said: "Carrie-- and I'm not trying to be funny."
Who said it wasn’t funny? Besides, this might be a hot take but I would love to see a Carrie revival on broadway, but only if they get a great director with a true vision and a book writer who deeply understands this material (Michael Mayer/Danny Strong you stay away from this)
Posted: 7/12/26 at 2:42pm
Liza Minnelli in Flora The Red Menace.
Updated On: 7/12/26 at 02:42 PM
Posted: 7/12/26 at 2:44pm
Fred Mason said: "I’d definitely see Ethel Merman in Gypsy. I think she is so perfect in the bootlegs I’ve heard, I don’t really think any of these other women ever came close to being nearly as good as she was in the role."
She’d run your irritating ass out of the theatre so damn quick 🤣
Posted: 7/12/26 at 3:27pm
TheatreMonkey said: "Carrie-- and I'm not trying to be funny."
Don’t know where you’ve been but CARRIE today holds a certain respect in Broadway folklore with Betty Buckley including it on occasion on her social media postings and always comments on postings with CARRIE content. Even Debbie Allen, who for decades removed herself from the show and never including it on Playbill bios, has since come around and speaks about CARRIE and shares great backstories of her time with the musical.
On the 21:15 mark, Debbie speaks about the show on her recent PLAYBILL: My Life in the Theatre:
Posted: 7/12/26 at 4:03pm
BrodyFosse123 said: "TheatreMonkey said: "Carrie-- and I'm not trying to be funny."
Don’t know where you’ve been but CARRIE today holds a certain respect in Broadway folklore with Betty Buckley including it on occasion on her social media postings and always comments on postings with CARRIE content. Even Debbie Allen, who for decades removed herself from the show and never including it on Playbill bios, has since come around and speaks about CARRIE and shares great backstories of her time with the musical.
On the 21:15 mark, Debbie speaks about the show on her recent PLAYBILL: My Life in the Theatre:
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I've been aware Carrie for 31 of 39 years on this earth -- one of my dance teachers (when I was a kid) was in the ensemble. I'm well aware of the new found respect it has, but you can't deny that there isn't a still a tinge of jest when people speak of it -- I was merely expressing my earnest desire to see it for all of it's, until recently acknowledged, brilliance.
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