If you could go back in time to see one musical which one would it be?

PROMISES, PROMISES at the Shubert Theater with the original cast. I was a little baby when it opened. So even if my mommy and daddy would have brought me to see it I wouldn't have been able to remember any of it. Sad but true.

The original Broadway/London production of 'La Cage Aux Folles' with George Hearn. It opened the year I was born. I fell in love with the cast album in my teens and saw the recent London revival several times. I recently took part in an amateur production using many of the original London costumes.

the original production of ANYONE CAN WHISTLE. I had tickets to see it at a future Saturday matinee, I was too young to travel the subways at night, and was shocked when it closed after a week without notice. It was the saddest return of money (I think the ticket cost me $3.60) that I ever got. Listening to the album, which which imo contains some of the greatest work Sondheim has ever written, and was surprisingly recorded and released after the show's early demise, made me even sadder to have missed the performances of Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury, and the amazing choreography of Herbert Ross.

Angela Lansbury in Mame.

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The Music Man, with Robert Preston and Barbara Cook
Carousel, with John Raitt
My Fair Lady, with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews
Cabaret, with Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson

Wow. Threads like this make me feel so old...

If I could travel back in time, it would be to see the original production of STRIKE UP THE BAND in 1929. And of course, the advantage of that is that in that year there were probably 15 or 20 other shows playing at the same time worth seeing, so the trip would be quite the fest.

@ Erin: You cannot possibly imagine how freaking gorgeous the original FOLLIES was. One of the jokes about the show is that Florence Klotz (costumer) used every bugle bead in Manhattan, and Aaronson's set was perhaps the most amazing machine for performers I've ever seen. When the lace fans dropped for the transition to Loveland, it was straight out of nowhere and jarred you in your seat, and the Mirror number was a genuinely scary experience: no one has done it better since. It's a shame that this production among all is not preserved at the Library of Performing Arts. VIA GALACTICA -- oh my god, what a howl. The trampolines were the best part of the show.

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Although I had seen the original production of Annie (my first Broadway show), I'd like to go back and see it all over again. It's what made me love theatre.

I'd also like to see Patti Lupone in Evita as she was out the night I had tickets.

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Broadway "CARRIE". Shoulda seen it when I had the chance.

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Bette Midler's Clams On The Half-Shell
Fiddler On The Roof with Bette Midler and Bea Arthur
Liza's At The Palace
Sally Marr with Joan Rivers
Hairspray with the original cast

DO RE MI with Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker

doodle, I was very lucky to have been given tickets to CARRIE (in previews) for my birthday.

I forgot Ethel's Gypsy and Alan's Cabaret.