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

[broadway guy]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 8:07am

I would pick going to see the original Broadway production of Beauty and the beast when it was at the Palace. Ive been trying to find bootlegs of it but no luck

How about you guys?



Updated On: 4/3/13 at 08:07 AM

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 8:13am

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.

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 8:19am

RENT
NEXT TO NORMAL
CATS

[angel_of_music2]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 8:19am

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.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 8:27am

The Original Broadway production of Chicago with Gwen and Chita, Liza with a Z, Evita with Patti, Julie in MFL, Angela's Mame, Zigeld's Showboat, any production of the Ziegfeld Follies, Judy Garland in concert, and many, many more...

Updated On: 4/3/13 at 08:27 AM

[jayinchelsea]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 8:35am

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.

[Claudia Draper]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 8:35am

Funny Girl W/ BARBRA. My Fair Lady w/ Julie Andrews. Original CHICAGO.

[madbrian]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 9:08am

Angela Lansbury in Mame.

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 9:15am

These 3 intrigue me the most:
1. Follies
2. Mack & Mabel
3. Via Galactica

[Wynbish]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 9:30am

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

[wonkit]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 9:31am

Kiss Me, Kate with Alfred Drake

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 9:32am

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.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 9:43am

Also, Rocky Horror Show pre-movie, just to experience it

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 9:57am

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.

[rorschach37]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 9:57am

The original production of Dreamgirls with Jennifer Holliday.

[Playbilly]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 10:07am

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

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 10:11am

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Scarlett Johanson.

[ZHerman]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 10:12am

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

[Dave19]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 10:13am

The original London production/cast of Miss Saigon,

Also would love to see Monique Wilson as Kim.

[egghumor]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 10:21am

DO RE MI with Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 10:22am

Easy answer is Lansbury's Gypsy.

Biggest regret is not getting preview ticets for Carrie.

[egghumor]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 10:29am

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

[WhatIWasBorn2Do]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 10:33am

I really feel like I missed out on Next To Normal.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 10:44am

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

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 10:58am

Egghumor...that's awesome! We dillydallied and decided to wait to hear about it first. Imagine what might've happened if we had the internet back then. We only had word of mouth in 1988. My roommate and I really wanted to see it, but we didn't have much money and hesitated.
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