Late Bloomers

#1

Late Bloomers

Posted: 1/2/06 at 1:56am

What recently closed Broadway/Off-Broadway show are you just now getting into? Or show that closed last year, etc.

Example, I seriously starting getting (in detail) into Aida around closing time in 2004. Bought the cast recording, read all about it online, ecetera.


Discuss.

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#2

re: Late Bloomers

Posted: 1/2/06 at 2:11am

Not as recent as yours, but I recently discovered a love for Ragtime. It's brilliant.

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#3

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Posted: 1/2/06 at 2:16am

Tick, Tick....BOOM!

Years too late.

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#4

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Posted: 1/2/06 at 2:34am

I'm becoming practically obsessed with Aida

Also, I've been becoming really interested
in Little Shop of Horrors and Nine

I guess I could say the same thing for
Gypsy (with Bernadette Peters)

#5

re: Late Bloomers

Posted: 1/2/06 at 3:33am

Hmmm... I think "Nine" closed way too soon, and I have been really into "Grand Hotel" lately, As well as "The Wild Party" - I miss Eartha doing "Uptown" as Delores.

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#6

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Posted: 1/2/06 at 3:36am

Little Shop! Argh, I'll NEVER forgive myself for missing Little Shop on Broadway

#7

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Posted: 1/2/06 at 5:43am

"Tick Tick...Boom!" and "Little Shop of Horrors".

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#8

re: Late Bloomers

Posted: 1/2/06 at 5:54am

I am really interested in Bare..A Pop Opera.

#9

re: Late Bloomers

Posted: 1/2/06 at 8:43am

I thought this thread was about the time the cleaners misplaced my laundry, causing my bloomers to actually be late.

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#10

re: Late Bloomers

Posted: 1/2/06 at 9:28am

For me, it's been two shows by Jerry Herman which I've come to love but didn't pay all that much attention to first time around: Mack and Mabel, and La Cage Aux Folles.

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#11

re: Late Bloomers

Posted: 1/2/06 at 9:33am

I won't tell you what I thought when I read the title of this thread...

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#12

re: Late Bloomers

Posted: 1/2/06 at 10:04am

Assassins!!

What really kills me is I had a sort-of chance to see the revival - I was trying to get my dad to take me into the city one day when we were in New Jersey and I remember trying to decide what show to see and thinking "Ew, Assassins, don't want to see that." (We ended up not going to see a show anyway, but still!)

How young and ignorant I was!

Now it's quite possibly my favorite show of all time.

#13

re: Late Bloomers

Posted: 1/2/06 at 11:09am

I became interested in Jane Eyre and The Scarlet Pimpernel after they had both been closed for a while. They also both happen to be favorite books of mine

#14

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Posted: 1/2/06 at 11:17am

Flower Drum Song revival w/ Lea Salonga
Bare....A Pop Opera
Gypsy revival w/ Bernadette Peters
Rocky Horror

#15

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Posted: 1/2/06 at 12:37pm

Tick Tick Boom
Bare
The Wild Party

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#16

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Posted: 1/2/06 at 12:41pm

Into the Woods

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#17

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Posted: 1/2/06 at 12:42pm

Aida, Bare, Urinetown, TWP...

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#18

re: Late Bloomers

Posted: 1/2/06 at 12:50pm

I live in England, and I always seem to be doing this with West End shows: I got into Rent a couple of months before it closed. I also fell in love with the Miss Saigon cast recording and became really curious about Romeo and Juliet: The Musical after they had closed.

On a similar theme, I also tend to get into shows that are only playing in America: I still love Rent, I was really into Wicked last year, and now I'm into Altar Boyz.

#19

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Posted: 1/2/06 at 1:25pm

It didn't close recently but I've just recently picked up Dreamgirls and the OBC of A Chorus Line (only had the movie before). I tend to wait until shows are closed for a while to pick up interest, or I'll buy an OBCR and not listen to it for ages.

It took me months to listen to the Chicago Revival CD, The Who's: Tommy OBCR, Into the Woods OBCR, and the Cabaret revival.

Is anyone else like that?

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#20

re: Late Bloomers

Posted: 1/2/06 at 1:35pm

Rocky Horror
Funny Girl
Cabaret (w/ Joel Grey, not Alan Cumming)
Hair
The Wild Party (Lippa)

Hey, it's not MY fault I wasn't born in the 60's.

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#21

re: Late Bloomers

Posted: 1/2/06 at 1:35pm

tick, tick...BOOM!
The Last 5 Years
BARE
Caroline, or Change
Assassins Revival

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#22

re: Late Bloomers

Posted: 1/2/06 at 1:42pm

Personals
Jacques Brel.. (really excited about the Zipper production coming up)
Is There Life After High School?
Honk!
People Are Wrong