If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
#1If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/2/08 at 11:38pm
what would it be?
For me, it would be Gypsy with The Merm.
#2re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/2/08 at 11:41pmI think it might have to be Carrie. I have heard so much about it.
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#2re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/2/08 at 11:43pmcall me lame but... opening night of SHOW BOAT in december of 1927. Broadway would never be the same after that evening.
#3re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/2/08 at 11:47pm
not too long ago,
Grey Gardens
#4re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/2/08 at 11:59pm
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"
#5re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:05am
Bat Boy
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
Updated On: 8/3/08 at 12:05 AM
#6re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:07am
Caroline, or Change
The Pajama Game Revival
lovesclassics
Broadway Star Joined: 10/7/05
#7re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:11am
City of Angels.
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!
#8re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:11amBernie P in Into the Woods.
#9re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:14amI 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
#10re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:16amGreat responses. Keep 'em coming!
BNN
Broadway Star Joined: 12/12/05
#11re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:20amThe original Follies, just to convince myself it actually happened.
Tick Tock
sgv123
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/06
#12re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:20ami would love to see fanny brice.
#13re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:22am
I'm so typical.
A Chorus Line
Hair
RENT OBC
Assassins
tick, tick...BOOM!
Marlothom
Broadway Star Joined: 4/13/04
#14re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:25amKiss of the Spiderwoman
"Observe how bravely I conceal this dreadful dreadful shame I feel."
#16re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:43amThe last five years.
"I've had a lot of failed relationships, I don't get involved because I'm not equipped. I believe that the world should revolve around me"
Salene
Broadway Star Joined: 3/26/07
#17re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:45amThe first Barbican preview of Les Mis.
#18re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:47amLa Merm en Gypsy.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#19re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:57am
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
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#20re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:57am
Ugh double post.
Updated On: 8/3/08 at 12:57 AM
fvalle24
Stand-by Joined: 7/11/08
#22re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 1:08amShow Boat 1927! Where it all began!
gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#23re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 1:16amThe original production of Hello,Dolly.
#24re: If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...
Posted: 8/3/08 at 1:20amBoth parts of Angels in America.
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