If you could go back in time to see one musical which one would it be?- Page 2

[John Adams]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 11:36am

I'd like to have heard the music from the original Broadway production of West Side Story before my mind was colored by the movie version and so many amateur productions.

I'd like to go back in time to see Dame Judi Dench in A Little Night Music, too.

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 12:08pm

How mean is it to only allow you to go bvack in time and see one musical.

I simply cannot pick one, but if my genie was kind I would say:

Oklahoma - Original at the St James.
Carousel - original at the Majestic and the revival at the Lincoln Center.
South Pacific - Original at the Majestic.
My Fair Lady - Original at the Mark Hellinger with Rex Harrison and Julie Walters.
1600 Pennslyvania Avenue - Original - one of the 20 performances only.
Carrie - Original at the August Wilson
Les Miserable - Original with Colm Wilkinson at the Broadway Theater.
Miss Saigon - Original with Jonathan Pryce at the Broadway Theater.
Sunset Boulevard - Original at the Minskoff with Glenn Close.
The Rink - Original at the Al Hirschfeld

[Hest88]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 12:14pm

Definitely the original Follies.

Although Show Boat would be awfully tempting too.

[best12bars]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 12:19pm

Opening night of Show Boat.

[Abbie4]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 12:59pm

In the time machine and back to 1960 to the Majestic Theatre to see...Camelot with Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Robert Goulet, and Roddy McDowell

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 1:23pm

I was born the year MY FAIR LADY opened-- seeing those performers on that double-turntable set was always the dream production I regret missing most.

Runners up: COMPANY, FOLLIES and Gertie Lawrence in LADY IN THE DARK.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 1:26pm

Sunset BLVD. in Los Angeles, with Glenn Close and Judy Kuhn.

Brooke Shields in Cabaret/Grease/Wonderful Town.

Vanessa Williams in Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Tamyra Gray in Bombay Dreams.

Can't just pick one, and many of them I already have seen.

Updated On: 4/3/13 at 01:26 PM

[WickedOne2]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 1:47pm

Natasha Richardson and Alan Cumming in Cabaret

[ABitOnTheSide]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 1:53pm

EVITA with Patti LuPone

The original cast of NINE

The Theatre de Lys production of THE THREEPENNY OPERA with Lotte Lenya, Bea Arthur and Charlotte Rae!

THE KING AND I

Probably opening night of GYPSY to see what Ethel Merman's performance must have been like. I've heard differing opinions. Still, it's American theater history.

[Far From Home]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 3:34pm

"Christine" with Maureen O'Hara
"Henry, Sweet Henry" with Don Ameche
"The King and I" with Angela Lansbury"

[sanda]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 4:08pm

Chess OLC
The Secret Garden OBC
City of Angels OBC

[kieranbec]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 4:12pm

Wonderland!!!

Just kidding. I would see the OBC of Into the Woods.

[HandsomeLittleLiar]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 4:24pm

Patti LuPone in Evita

Joan Rivers in Fun City

Bonnie and Clyde, I rather like the score and had purchased tickets but it closed shortly before I got to see it.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 4:50pm

Dance of the Vampires, Taboo, or Ghost.

[Tink2]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 5:58pm

Man of La Mancha with Richard Kiley
My Fair Lady with Julie Andrews
Camelot with Julie Andrews

I have been very fortunate to have been able to see the OBCs of Evita, Sweeney, Phantom and Les Miserable. I saw Laurie Beechman in Cats and Betty Buckley in the London production of Sunset Blvd. You're making me feel very old. : )

There were two shows that I was so excited to see, simply because of the actors appearing in them. I swear I thought my heart was going to beat right out of my chest anticipating Yule Brenner's first entrance in The King & I. We all jumped to our feet in applause when he entered. He had such a presence. Took your breath away. The other was Richard Harris in Camelot. Loved him so much in that stage role. Both of these shows were in the early eighties.

Updated On: 4/7/13 at 05:58 PM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 6:06pm

The original Follies so I could finally experience what everyone has been gushing about for decades.

The original Company.

She Loves Me revival with Judy Kuhn.

Sarafina

Carrie

Two Gentlemen of Verona with Stockard Channing.

Dude

Via Galactica

The original West Side Story and On the Town

Candide 1974 revival.

Good News (1927)

Updated On: 4/15/13 at 06:06 PM

[theatredk]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 6:07pm

Gertrude Lawrence In Lady In The Dark

[Emma White]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 8:45pm

Like everyone else here, Dame Julie in My Fair Lady

Ethel Merman's Anything Goes

Opening night of Thoroughly Modern Millie

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999 revival)

Into the Woods OBC (love the DVD so much and would love to see that cast live)

The King and I (Donna Murphy)

A Little Night Music (original, CZJ and Bernadette)

Updated On: 4/4/13 at 08:45 PM

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 9:26pm

Follies
Company
Merrily We Roll Along
Carrie
Timbuktu
Gypsy with Merman
A Class Act
The Act

[all that jazz]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 9:56pm

They should do anniversary concerts with the OBC's for most of these shows. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing Evita with Patti again or Chicago with Chita and Liza. Obviously they won't be as great as they were in the original productions but still it would be amazing.

[ARTc]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 10:09pm

Wow. This is a trip down memory lane. So many of the shows listed here I had the good fortune to see... I can say that Via Galactica was a hoot. The trampolines were really off the wall. Dude was such a mess it was brilliant. No one mentioned Got Tu Go Disco, but the open number costumes were beyond fun. Carrie for Lindsey Hatley (spelling?).

I would love to have seen Stop The World I Want To Get Off. Only perhaps because I didn't see it.

[beagle]

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

The Original Broadway cast of 1776. I know the movie has most of that cast, but it would have been amazing to see it on stage.

Also, the original Broadway casts of My Fair Lady, West Side Story and Les Miserables (I had a chance to see the pre-Broadway tryout of Les Mis in DC, but passed it up and have always regretted it).

[justoldbill]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 10:16pm

The final performance of FOLLIES at the Winter Garden in 1972- again.

Updated On: 4/3/13 at 10:16 PM

[Visceral_Fella]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 12:25am

the original Carrie or Dreamgirls

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 12:31am

>> Candide 1974 revival

This was so off the chain that it was wonderful. I sat in what was called the "mountains", on a ledge right over Cunegonde when she sang "Glitter and Be Gay", and it was incredible to watch the "backstage" stuff during that number. And when they arrive in El Dorado and all the green crepe paper streamers came down over the orchestra section, it was like, WTF??? Brilliant production.