Late Bloomers
Late Bloomers
BroomstickBoy
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#0Late 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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#1re: Late Bloomers
Posted: 1/2/06 at 2:11amNot as recent as yours, but I recently discovered a love for Ragtime. It's brilliant.
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#2re: Late Bloomers
Posted: 1/2/06 at 2:16am
Tick, Tick....BOOM!
Years too late.
OOTI2004
Broadway Star Joined: 10/29/05
#3re: Late Bloomers
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)
#4re: Late Bloomers
Posted: 1/2/06 at 3:33amHmmm... 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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Elizabeth Taylor
Cenoern
Stand-by Joined: 10/26/05
#5re: Late Bloomers
Posted: 1/2/06 at 3:36am
Little Shop! Argh, I'll NEVER forgive myself for missing Little Shop on Broadway 
Dramatic_Irony
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/26/05
#6re: Late Bloomers
Posted: 1/2/06 at 5:43am"Tick Tick...Boom!" and "Little Shop of Horrors".
Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. -Nocturne
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#8re: Late Bloomers
Posted: 1/2/06 at 8:43amI thought this thread was about the time the cleaners misplaced my laundry, causing my bloomers to actually be late.
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grizzabella
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/05
#9re: 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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SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#10re: Late Bloomers
Posted: 1/2/06 at 9:33amI won't tell you what I thought when I read the title of this thread...
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#11re: 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.
#12re: 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 
Kicks8567
Broadway Star Joined: 6/15/03
#13re: Late Bloomers
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
#14re: Late Bloomers
Posted: 1/2/06 at 12:37pm
Tick Tick Boom
Bare
The Wild Party
"With only so much time to spend, don't want to waste the time I'm given!" ~Tick Tick Boom
#15re: Late Bloomers
Posted: 1/2/06 at 12:41pmInto the Woods
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#16re: Late Bloomers
Posted: 1/2/06 at 12:42pmAida, Bare, Urinetown, TWP...
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
#17re: 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.
#18re: Late Bloomers
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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rentheadcagofan12
Understudy Joined: 8/25/05
#19re: 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)
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ByMySide25
Stand-by Joined: 5/17/04
#20re: 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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#21re: Late Bloomers
Posted: 1/2/06 at 1:42pm
Personals
Jacques Brel.. (really excited about the Zipper production coming up)
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