This is impossible to answer. There are just too many.
-"Sweet Charity" -Lansbury's "Gypsy" -Robeson & Co. in the "Showboat" revival -Merm in "Annie Get Your Gun" -"The Glass Menagerie," just to see if Laurette Taylor's performance really was the best of all time (it probably was). -Gene Kelly in "Pal Joey" -OBC "Le Cage aux Folles" -OBC "Evita"
edit: Yeah, the thread says ONE but who follows that... Bare: A Pop Opera RENT (OBC) Cry Baby (I know it was bad, but I just love James Snyder...) Spring Awakening OFF-Bway Cabaret
"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson
I was in NYC with friends in 1989, the day after Thanksgiving. We took a day trip to hit the TKTS booth for a matinee. We had narrowed our choices down to A Few Good Men and City of Angels. One friend had a massive crush on Tom Hulce, so that's who we went to see (in AFGM). We loved the show and his performance and never gave COA a second thought. Years later I discovered the cast album and realized what a great show it was (and what a great cast it had). If only we had decided to see COA at night instead of eating at Mamma Leone's and heading home!
I have quite a few, but right now I'm thinking either the OBC of A Little Night Music, the OBC of A Chorus Line, the OBC of Sweeney Todd or the OBC of Evita.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
I can't choose just one but definitely the original productions of HELLO, DOLLY!, A CHORUS LINE, GYPSY, WEST SIDE STORY, MISS SAIGON, CARRIE, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, RAGTIME, DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES, and the last revival of DEATH OF A SALESMAN all immediately come to mind.
More recently though, I would have loved to have seen THE PAJAMA GAME revival and URINETOWN a second time. Updated On: 8/3/08 at 12:57 AM