If you could go back to one performance...

Sorry if there's already an existing thread on this (and please point me in that direction if there is one) but my friend and I were just discussing this so I felt like I had to ask here. If you could go back in time to one theater performance (one show, an opening or closing night, whatever) which would you choose?

I personally said that I would go back in time to see the original cast of Hair sing "Flesh of Failures/Let the Sun Shine In".

*edit: now I'm on a Hair bingewatch and I've also decided that I would go back to the 2009 Tony's to see this moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlbD5tdFxXM

Updated On: 11/17/18 at 01:54 PM

First Choice: The original Tom O'Horgan Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway.

Second Choice: The Universal Amphitheatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar that Tom O'Horgan directed

Third Choice: The original Broadway cast/production of HAIR.... which Tom O'Horgan directed.

Double.

Updated On: 11/18/18 at 02:27 PM

Maggie Smith in "Lettice and Lovage." I had the chance to see it a second time but passed because I didn't want to sully the memory of the first performance.

Here I Am said: " Do you mean a performance that you’ve seen that you want to see again? Or any performance ever, even ones that you couldn’t possibly have seen?



Good question, as I was a little confused, as well. So my two answers:

WHAT I'VE SEEN: I would want to go back to the performance of Tyne Daly singing "Rose's Turn" in GYPSY (May, 1991).

WHAT I HAVEN'T SEEN: I would want to see the Jean Simmons-led cast of "A Little Night Music" in the 1970s - one of my all-time favorite cast recordings.

The first performance of COMPANY in Boston, 1970. (I'm not sure if it played the Shubert or Colonial... someone help me?) The old fogies must have been baffled and outraged. The smarter set must have been baffled, intrigued and thrilled. Oh to eavesdrop on that intermission talk!



A second choice would be Rex and Julie in the original MY FAIR LADY-- not necessarily a specific performance. A third choice... there are too many. Let's leave it at that.

Hair at Sheakespeare in the Park. Although I saw the original production, there was something magical about seeing in the park.

Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown - It kills me I never got to see it since it closed early.