If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...

[sondheimfan2]

Posted: 8/2/08 at 11:38pm

what would it be?

For me, it would be Gypsy with The Merm.

[lakezurich]

Posted: 8/2/08 at 11:41pm

I think it might have to be Carrie. I have heard so much about it.

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 8/2/08 at 11:43pm

call me lame but... opening night of SHOW BOAT in december of 1927. Broadway would never be the same after that evening.

[dshnookie]

Posted: 8/2/08 at 11:47pm

not too long ago,

Grey Gardens

[Connemara]

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"

[oohshizz146]

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

Updated On: 8/3/08 at 12:05 AM

[verynewyorkcurious]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:07am

Caroline, or Change
The Pajama Game Revival

[lovesclassics]

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!

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:11am

Bernie P in Into the Woods.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:14am

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.

[sondheimfan2]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:16am

Great responses. Keep 'em coming!

[BNN]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:20am

The original Follies, just to convince myself it actually happened.

[sgv123]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:20am

i would love to see fanny brice.

[winter_sky]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:22am

I'm so typical.

A Chorus Line
Hair
RENT OBC
Assassins
tick, tick...BOOM!

[Marlothom]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:25am

Kiss of the Spiderwoman

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:26am

PORTOFINO

[25th Annual Speller]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:43am

The last five years.

[Salene]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:45am

The first Barbican preview of Les Mis.

[defyingravity07]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:47am

La Merm en Gypsy.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

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]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 12:57am

Ugh double post.
Updated On: 8/3/08 at 12:57 AM

[it'sjustshowbiz]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 1:04am

Side Show.

[fvalle24]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 1:08am

Show Boat 1927! Where it all began!

[gypsy4]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 1:16am

The original production of Hello,Dolly.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 1:20am

Both parts of Angels in America.