01. Based on a Totally True Story on Off-Broadway [05/26/06] 02. The Drowsy Chaperone on Broadway [05/23/06] 03. Doubt on Broadway [05/16/06] 04. Lestat on Broadway [05/11/06] 05. Tarzan on Broadway [05/05/06] 06. Monty Python's Spamalot on Broadway [05/03/06] 07. Three Days of Rain on Broadway [05/03/06] 08. The History Boys on Broadway [04/30/06] 09. Kushner's Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems... at Fordham [04/26/06] 10. The Threepenny Opera on Broadway [04/26/06]
Since I live in the middle of nowhere, it's quite a pathetic list...starting from the most recently seen:
1. Grease - Community theatre (actually, the production that I'm in...we're double cast, so I went to go see the others perform.) 2. The Sound of Music - Canadian opera company (my good friend played Maria, it was very good.) 3. Les Miserables - Touring cast, wonderful. 4. Cats - Community theatre...oh, wow. 5. Wicked - Chicago cast 6. Guys and Dolls - Local high school 7. Anne of Green Gables: The Musical - Community theatre (AWFUL!) 8. The Importance of Being Earnest - College production 9. Little Women - Tour, actually really liked it. 10. The Three Musketeers - Community theatre (also the other cast of the show I'm in).
^Wow, I really need to make it on up to NYC. That's depressing.
Updated On: 5/1/07 at 02:25 AM
(most recent) Movin' Out (Boston) Movin' Out (Boston) The Disappointingly Not Julia Murney Show (Boston) The Julia Murney Show (Boston) The Golden Ass (an original play my college did... interesting) The Sound of Music (my high school's show... we won't discuss it) (mind is drawing a blank between January and March) The Color Purple (Broadway) Light in the Piazza (Broadway) Sweeney Todd (Broadway) Evita (Providence, RI)
RENT Tour (Toronto) Movin' Out (Toronto) Lord of The Rings (Toronto) Rocky Horror Show (Toronto) Wicked (bway - 3 times when I was there, but will count as one show) DRS (bway) Sweet Charity (bway) Avenue Q (bway) See What I Wanna See (off-bway) Spamalot(bway)
Urinetown (UC Riverside) The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe (Pasadena Junior Theatre) Sarah Plain and Tall Barefoot In The Park The Drowsy Chaperone The Importance of Being Ernest Oliver (PJT) The Musical of Musicals Forbidden Broadway Sweet Charity
Wicked Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Fiddler On The Roof Fiddler On The Roof Wicked Beauty And The Beast Beauty And The Beast Cats (The highschoolers put it on at our school) Anything Goes (Our school production)
The Drowsy Chaperone (Broadway) The ThreePenny Opera (Broadway) Sound of Music (Community theatre) SPAMALOT (Boston, MA) Wicked tour (Boston, MA) Dr. Doolittle tour (Providence, RI) Little Shop of Horrors tour (Providence, RI) Hamlet (Trinity Rep, Providence, RI) Joseph...Dreamcoat Tour Noises Off (Community theatre)
1) SPAMALOT 2) DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS 3) THE ODD COUPLE 4) THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Jan 9th, 2006- for the 10th time) 5) CHICAGO with Huey Lewis 6) WICKED 7) PETER PAN tour THE PRODUCERS (4TH TIME) 9) MOVIN'OUT 10) BEAUTY & THE BEAST
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
1. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (6th) 2. The Drowsy Chaperone 3. Sweeney Todd (2nd) 4. RENT 5. The Pillowman 6. Dance of the Vampires 7. Hairspray 8. The Lion King 9. Wicked 10. The Rocky Horror Show (3rd) Updated On: 5/27/06 at 11:07 AM
1. Peter Pan in PA (my kid is in it) 2. Drowsy Chaperone...eh 3. Lestat...pretty good 4. Wedding Singer...sounds like the music was composed by a computer, just ghastly 5. Forum in Philadelphia...great cast 6. Godspell in Philadelphia...didn't like the changes to the original but cast did well 7. Pajama Game...much much better than expected 8. Spelling Bee again...some cast changes, still brilliant 9. Billy Elliott in London...AUCTION OFF A KIDNEY AND GO SEE THIS MANY TIMES...best thing I have ever seen EVER 10. Whistle Down the Wind in London...worst show ever written or performed, hands down...even CATS was better than this 11. Odd Couple...boring
And this is worth including because no one saw it and I adored it
From most recent. Unfortunately I haven't seen too many shows this year:
1] Metamorphoses, 4/29 in Albany 2] The Phantom of the Opera, 3/3 in Providence 3] Doubt, 1/15 at the Kerr 4] The Woman in White, 1/14 at the Marquis 5] The Nutcracker, 12/17/05 at Mohegan Sun (it was AWFUL) 6] Urinetown, 12/16/05 at UMASS Dartmouth 7] Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 8/3/05 at the Hilton 8] Wicked, 7/9/05 at the Gershwin 9] The Phantom of the Opera, 5/22/05 in Boston 10] Thoroughly Modern Millie, March/05 in Providence
How to properly use its/it's:
Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...
1) Peter Pan (stagemom, was it in Allentown? Then I probably saw your kid!) 2) Fiddler on the Roof 3) Rent 4) Into the Woods 5) Gypsy 6) Last Five Years 7) Little Shop of Horrors Bedroom Farce 9) Rumors 10) Urinetown
OK..so these are all HS or Community theatre, except for Rent, which was the tour. Just be glad I spared you my elementary school shows!
Some Girls Drowsy Chaperone Martin Short-Fame Becomes Me (in San Francisco) Faith Healer Caine Mutiny Shining City Festen Awake and Sing Three Days of Rain Three Penny Opera
Do note that I might have left out some shows I've forgotten...
Educating Rita Assassins Garden House Bark! The Three Musketeers Sweeney Todd (I actually saw it three times, but I'm not putting it on the list three times.) ComedySportz Improv Show Bark! The Drowsy Chaperone (In L.A.)
I'm also seeing a musical revue at a high school tonight. It should be very interesting...
I'm including professional and unprofessional productions..
Into the Woods (High School) Ragtime (New Rep Theater) Ragtime (New Rep Theater) RENT (Boston) Spamalot (Boston) Chicago (High School) The Color Purple (Broadway, obviously) See What I Wanna See (Off-Broadway) Wicked (Broadway) Lion King (Boston)
I Love You Because Guys and Dolls(school) The Drowsy Chaperone Beauty and the Beast The Drowsy Chaperone Lestat Threepenny Opera (then I don't remember)
Tarzan Lestat Barefoot in the Park The Pajama Game Jersey Boys Sweeney Todd Woman in White Naked Girl on the Appian Way Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2nd time) All Shook Up
Upcoming shows... Three Penny Opera Some Girl(s) Drowsy Chaperone The Color Purple
"You can't stop someone who wants to be an artist. If they're going to do it, they're going to do it... Work as hard as you can on the things you can work on. Until it seems like there is no possible chance you're going to succeed, don't give up." ~ANDREW ASNES
avatar: me and jason gillman... in the pouring rain.
1. Zorba 2. Jersey Boys 3. Sweeney Todd 4. The Color Purple 5. Altar Boyz 6. The Threepenny Opera 7. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2nd time) 8. Festen 9. Bernarda Alba 10. The Drowsy Chaperone
Just including professional shows: (most recent first) 1. The Producers (Broadway - April '06) 2. Hairspray (Broadway - April '06) 3. Spelling Bee (Broadway - April '06 ) 4. Forbidden Broadway SVU (Tour - Boston - Feb. '06) 5. The Lion King (Tour - Providence - Nov. '05) 6. Brooklyn (Broadway - April '05) 7. Chicago (Tour - Providence - April '05) 8. Oklahoma (Tour - Providence - Nov. '04) 9. The Lion King (Tour - Boston - Oct. '04) 10. Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway - July '04. I saw Wicked the day before this.)
And I'm going to see Dirty Rotten Scoundrels next month.
Hairspray in LA 42nd Street in LA Cats in LA Spelling Bee on Broadway! Piazza on Broadway! Riverdance in LA White Christmas in LA Fab 4 in LA 42nd Street in LA .....
Let us milk the cow that is theatre-Monica Trausch
Spring Awakening Caroline or Change - Boston Brundibar Lieutenant of Inishmore Tarzan Jacques Brel is Alive and Well.. Welcome Home Steve The Guardians Drowsy Chaperone Threepenny Opera Wedding Singer
1. Caroline or Change (DC- Studio Theatre) 2. The Color Purple 3. The Wedding Singer 4. Sweeney Todd 5. Drowsey Chaperone 6. Frozen (DC- Studio Theatre) 7. Love Song (Chicago) 8. Spelling Bee (Chicago) 9. Hot Feet (DC- Tryout) 10. Shenandoah (DC- Fords Theatre)
"Why do you care what people might say? Why try to fit into their design?" (Side Show)