If you could travel back in time and see ONE show...- Page 4

[uncageg]

Posted: 8/4/08 at 11:39am

Chess
Grey Gardens
Runaways
A Catered Affair
Merrily We Roll Along
Follies (original)
Chicago (original)

[Patash]

Posted: 8/4/08 at 2:35pm

It's a close call between opening night of Showboat way back when, or opening night of Oklahoma.

[myshikobit]

Posted: 8/4/08 at 5:16pm

UGGGHHHH. Hard question. Carrie, Follies, Merrily We Roll Along, Oh Brother, Moose Murders, Portofino.... I dunno. So many flops, so little time.

[dlass727]

Posted: 8/4/08 at 5:20pm

Trust me you do not want to waste a trip back in time on Dance of the Vampires! I saw it and if my partner would have let me leave half way through the show, I would have.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/4/08 at 5:57pm

Shenandoah because I would want to observe a teenage me seeing his first Broadway show.

[sondheimfan2]

Posted: 8/4/08 at 7:44pm

Thanks to all for your terrific choices! Now where did I put that time machine?

[TheatreFreak05]

Posted: 8/4/08 at 8:16pm

Follies or The Secret Garden

[Natch]

Posted: 8/4/08 at 9:57pm

I'm going to see your:
"i would love to see fanny brice."
"Funny Girl"
"Mary Martin in Peter Pan"
"Show Boat, opening night in 1927."
"The original Broadway production of Follies."
"Merman in GYPSY"
(haha, that ended up being more than I thought!)

and raise you a:
-opening night of Oklahoma (I can't believe only ONE other person mentioned this??)
-Audrey Hepburn in Gigi

other top choices:
Julie Andrews in my fair lady
OBC of Into the Woods

and that all's only what's on the top off my head... haha!

[FuturePenny2]

Posted: 8/4/08 at 10:09pm

Hairspray owns my heart haha and since I never got to see the OBC I'd travel back to 2002 and see the OBC of Hairspray!

Its totally a lame choice compared to a lot of whats been posted but.. its my lame choice :p haha

[jaystarr]

Posted: 8/4/08 at 10:23pm

Mame at the Winter Garden.

J*

[zamedy]

Posted: 8/5/08 at 12:11am

Wow. A true treasure chest of choices. I CAN'T pick just one show!

-Opening night of WEST SIDE STORY
-Opening night of SHOW BOAT (1927)
-Opening night of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (Starring the Merm)
-Opening night of HAIRSPRAY (I know..it hardly measures up in comparison but it's my favorite and the OBC was amazingly talented). To see Harvey's Edna would be worth the trip back alone.



Updated On: 8/5/08 at 12:11 AM

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 8/5/08 at 12:26am

Zero Mostel in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

[adelaide3]

Posted: 8/5/08 at 2:06am

...My grandpa told me just two days ago he saw Ethel Merman in Gypsy on Broadway. Lucky guy!

And for me, A Raisin in the Sun OBC

[christhefish]

Posted: 8/5/08 at 2:15am

Company

[LuPonatic]

Posted: 8/5/08 at 2:26am

Souvenir

[strelimyn]

Posted: 8/5/08 at 5:11am

Pretty difficult question - but my pick would have to be the OBC of Hello, Dolly!

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 8/5/08 at 11:13am

OBC of A Chorus Line

[fosca3]

Posted: 8/6/08 at 9:47am

How about the Australian cast of THE SECRET GARDEN, with Anthony Warlow and Philip Quast

That would be pure heaven (for me anyway )

[gvendo2005]

Posted: 8/6/08 at 11:53am

More to add:

--"More Than You Deserve," Off-Broadway, 1973 (to hear that score and see Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman's first real collaboration)
--"Dude" (really...could it have been that bad? the show did well for a while in stock until Ragni passed away and the rights went to limbo)
--"Chess" (London, not Broadway)

[Chuck012]

Posted: 8/6/08 at 3:04pm

The original production of Inherit the Wind at the National (Nederlander) with Paul Muni, Ed Begley (Sr) and Tony Randall. The magic of that production enraptured the audience and the memory of that matinee has never left me.

[Tkt2Ride]

Posted: 8/6/08 at 5:20pm

There are so many performers that I would have loved to see perform live. So many old Broadway shows I wish I could have seen. To choose just one? I fear I will be left wishing to see all of the other ones even more?

I'm picking Ben Vereen in Pippin but only because I haven't seen the show yet.

I really enjoy Showboat but it always reminds me too much of slavery in this Country. I would have loved to see it on opening night but I know, I would leave it feeling blue, like I always do whenever I see this show.

[NobodyNeedsToKnow2]

Posted: 8/6/08 at 5:25pm

Your stomachs are going to churn when you read this, but if I could go back to see one musical it would be Jane Eyre. Other than that I would have loved to see the The History Boys and the Orginal London Cast of Les Miserables.

[nealb1]

Posted: 8/6/08 at 5:42pm

Angela Lansbury in "Mame."

[Jamie Pierce]

Posted: 8/6/08 at 5:47pm

I think I'm changing mine to Dancin' to see Ann Reinking's trumpet solo.

[markypoo]

Posted: 8/6/08 at 5:49pm

The 1903 WIZARD OF OZ with Montgomery and Stone at the original Majestic Theatre on Columbus Circle.