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

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.

Definitely the original Follies.

Although Show Boat would be awfully tempting too.

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

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.

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

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.

Chess OLC
The Secret Garden OBC
City of Angels OBC

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.

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

Gertrude Lawrence In Lady In The Dark

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

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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.

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

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

>> 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.

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