If you could go back to one performance...- Page 2

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 7:56am

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

[Armie3]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 8:01am

Possibly the time Liza filled in during the original Chicago.

 

[Lot666]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 10:05am

Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman, and Steve Barton in Phantom of the Opera

Glenn Close and Alan Campbell in Sunset Boulevard

Maria Friedman and Michael Crawford in The Woman in White

Sierra Boggess in Love Never Dies

[JudyDenmark]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 10:36am

I want to see the original Pippin and original Sweet Charity. And Dancin'. (Opening nights, why not.) Basically, take me to Fossetime. 

[veraclaythorne2]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 10:44am

Performance I saw: THE PILLOWMAN at The Cottesloe, National Theatre

Ones I didn't: Bowie in THE ELEPHANT MAN, the original run of STREETCAR, or original run of SWEENEY TODD. 

 

[markypoo]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 10:46am

I also saw the touring cast of ALNM in Chicago; Shubert Theatre: December 1974.
Sublime.
Sheer perfection.
None better.

[imklepcyk]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 10:48am

Hello Dolly with Bernadette Peters, in my opinion she was the best Dolly and the a t whole show makes me smile

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 10:57am

Gypsy with LuPone on January 10, 2009. Just to see this all happen in person.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 11:03am

Is it cheating to say Judy at Carnegie Hall?

[Kad]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 11:06am

TotallyEffed said: "Is it cheating to say Judy at Carnegie Hall?"

No, cuz that was gonna be my answer, too.

 

[markypoo]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 12:02pm

The OBC of Parade on 2/26/99.

[nealb1]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 12:12pm

Angela Lansbury in "Mame" and Judy Garland at Carneige Hall.  

If I could see another performance again, that would be Natasha Richardson in "Cabaret."

[OrchardAndRivington]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 2:06pm

Performance I want to see AGAIN - Funny Girl at the Actors Fund Concert 2002. I just rewatched Seth Rudetsky's Lillias White deconstruction last night and would love to go back and feel all that energy in the New Amsterdam again.

A performance I'd like to see that I missed: Patti LuPone in Evita (or the performance where Nancy Opel became a turtle in the Eva Dress..)

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 3:02pm

I was listening to the recent BroadWaysted podcast with Jenn Gambatese (its a weird Podcast, IMO), and they were casting famous people in Broadway shows, and it reminded me of Jerry herman saying Judy Garland wanted to do Mame. I would travel back in time, and make it happen.

Or I would settle for Judy at Carneige Hall!

[vampire musical]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 3:04pm

Performance I'd like to see again: Hamilton preview at the Public. Can't remeber which preview I saw but seeing that show before all the buzz (and not knowing the songs) was priceless. I remember after the final black out the man sitting next to me whispered "Jesus!". What an experience. 

Performance I wish I could have seen: Raul Julia in Nine (or really any Broadway performance by Raul Julia -- swoon). 

[Skip23]

Posted: 11/19/18 at 4:29pm

BroadwayConcierge said: "Gypsy with LuPone on January 10, 2009. Just to see this all happen in person."

 

I was there. And she ruined an otherwise wonderful performance. 

[StardustsChild]

Posted: 11/20/18 at 12:03am

I would want to see the original extended version of South Pacific from Boston, pre the drastic cuts and rewrites. The way that show was shaped is so fascinating to me. 

Also Carol Channing's final performance as Dolly in her original broadway run. 

[uncageg]

Posted: 11/20/18 at 12:42am

The first preview of the original Broadway production of Merrily We Roll Along.

[sbflyfan]

Posted: 11/20/18 at 12:18pm

I'd love to go back in time to see Laurette Taylor in "The Glass Menagerie."  So many actors praise her performance on the " Broadway: The Golden Age" documentary. It must have been truly remarkable.

[stoptheworld38]

Posted: 1/4/19 at 9:50pm

There's so many...

-Dear Evan Hansen with OBC

-Once On This Island with Hailey Kilgore (she was out due to injury when I saw it in August and now it closes on Sunday...)

-Head Over Heels (cause that also closes Sunday)

-Sunday In the Park With George (original or revival, I love both)

-Hamilton OBC

-Ragtime (original or revival)

-Fun Home

[Jarethan]

Posted: 1/4/19 at 9:58pm

gregnyc2 said: "With all of its faults, it’d be Judy Kuhn and David Carroll in CHESS."

I saw that and it was such a disastrous production (blame Trevor Nunn) that you would have been severely disappointed.

[jo]

Posted: 1/4/19 at 10:10pm

Richard Kiley in MAN FROM LA MANCHA, original staging in a theatre in the round.

Michael Ball et al in ASPECTS OF LOVE in London 1989 - the singing was very impressive!

War Horse at Lincoln Center - impressive and emotional.

Ingrid Bergman in that drama with Arthur Hill -- can't even remember the name of the play - I was too much in awe of Ms.Bergman especially with my front row seating.  Maybe also because it was my first time in America and Broadway was such a dream event?

Angela Lansbury in MAME - to explore why it has impressed so many, when at that time I thought it was just an OK play to me. My lingering memory was We Need A Little Christmas.

Hugh Jackman --

*Curly in OKLAHOMA! in London ( 1999) although I would have preferred to have seen it in its original RNT theatre home instead of the Lyric theatre - didn't know who the lead actor was then as I came to see it only because of the music of Rodgers & Hammerstein

*closing show of THE BOY FROM OZ.

 

[Jarethan]

Posted: 1/4/19 at 10:16pm

I'll break the rules because others did...'can't just have one, maybe 5'.

Something that I saw:

-- Angela Lansbury in MAME.  The first time I saw this remains my single favorite performance EVER.

-- Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards in A Moon For the Misbegotten.

-- Nicholas Nickelby.  A once in a lifetime experience.

-- Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in The Producers.  I know there are  people who consider this overrated and feel its relatively short run was appropriate.  With Lane as Max B. and that original cast, I NEVER laughed so hard in my life; and Betrayed was one of the great 11:00 numbers ever.

-- Follies in Boston, because it was so unexpected; and I think I ENJOYED 'Boy, Can That Boy Foxtrot' more than 'I'm Still Here'.

Something That I Didn't See:

-- Judy Holiday at the opening of Bells Are Ringing

-- Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall.  I listened to the recording about three weeks ago, and still got goosebumps.

-- Opening night of The Philadelphia Story with Kate Hepburn.

-- Don't ask me why, cause I don't know, but the original production of A Majority of One.  I would have loved to have seen Gertrude Berg, and the movie is one of  my all-time guilty pleasures, despite the incredibly politically incorrect servant.

-- South Pacific with Martin and Pinza.

[IronMan]

Posted: 1/5/19 at 1:11am

One I saw: SARAFINA! at the Cort.  Being a sheltered kid from Ohio new to NY but long in the biz, I'm ashamed to say that I really didn't know what apartheid meant.  This show (about a year into its run) just blew me away.  The VOICES in that theater, the passion, the storytelling, the stunning stagecraft... always at the top of my list of theater experiences. 

One I didn't see: Either the opening nights of THE FANTASTICKS, or YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN. Both have special places in my heart and I'd love to experience the reactions of those who knew nothing about them going in. 

[BenElliott]

Posted: 1/5/19 at 1:15am

Probably the original production of one of the Sondheim classics. I also hate that I was only around 9 years old when the Patti Lupone lead Gypsy was on Broadway. Love that show and I love that cast. Would've loved to have seen that live.

I guess I'd choose either original Sweeney or original Sunday. Not sure which.