Most recent 270+ shows

[once a month]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 10:56am

The following list of dates are what I've compiled going through the past several years worth of ticket stubs and Playbills. Since I fell in love with shows, I've lived in 29 different locations, yet only 10% of the shows listed are out of NYC. I'm trying to "get my life together" and since I'm getting organized, I offer this list of theatrical events in an ordinary life. The memories!!!

Theatrical Listings

11-01-08 Billy Elliot
09-21-08 Saltimbaco-Cirque du Soleil
09-20-08 Equus
09-18-08 Herringbone
08-26-08 Bernadette Peters
07-15-08 (title of show)
06-18-08 Gypsy revival
04-20-08 The New Century
04-12-08 A Catered Affair
04-09-08 South Pacific revival
03-29-08 Cry Baby
03-27-08 Argonautika
03-12-08 Jersey Boys
03-08-08 In the Heights
01-08-08 Die Mommy Die
12-22-07 Xanadu
11-03-07 Die Mommy Die
10-20-07 Young Frankenstein
09-23-07 You Can’t Take it with You
06-02-07 110 in the Shade revival
05-12-07 Legally Blonde
05-12-07 Mary Poppins
05-04-07 LoveMusik
04-14-07 Falsettos
03-18-07 Curtains
01-18-07 Lookingglass Alice
12-15-06 Radio City Christmas Spectacular
12-09-06 The Little Dog Laughed
11-25-06 Company revival
11-22-06 A Chorus Line revival
11-04-06 Fame Becomes Me- Martin Short
10-27-06 Ascension
10-21-06 Gray Gardens
04-22-06 The Wedding Singer
04-07-06 The Drowsy Chaperone
03-05-06 Confessions of a Mormon Boy
11-23-05 The Color Purple
11-19-05 Woman in White
09-22-05 Miss Witherspoon
05-27-05 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
04-27-05 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
04-07-05 Spamalot
03-31-05 The Bells
03-23-05 Spamalot
03-16-05 Fiddler on the Roof
03-12-05 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
03-07-05 Shockheaded Peter
02-15-05 Hairspray
01-31-05 Laugh Whore- Mario Cantone
01-26-05 Pacific Overtures
01-21-05 Secrets In the Wings
12-05-04 La Cage aux Folles revival
11-21-04 Pacific Overtures
11-06-04 Back with a Vengence- Dame Edna
09-30-04 Last of the Boys
09-25-04 Equus
06-26-04 The Frogs
06-25-04 Here Lies Jenny
06-05-04 Bombay Dreams
06-02-04 Avenue Q
05-30-04 Assassins
05-20-04 My Fair Lady
05-16-04 The Normal Heart
05-01-04 Bombay Dreams
04-10-04 A Raisin in the Sun
02-08-04 The Rink
12-15-03 Great Joy
12-05-03 Wicked
11-28-03 Naked Boys Singing
10-28-03 Wicked
10-15-03 The Boy from Oz
10-07-03 Fame on Broadway
09-25-03 Anna in the Tropics
08-30-03 Little Shop of Horrors revival
08-02-03 Avenue Q
06-01-03 Say Good-night, Gracie
04-30-03 Gypsy
03-23-03 The Urban Cowboy
03-23-03 Elegies
02-23-03 La Boheme
12-29-02 A Man of No Importance
11-07-02 Singing Sondheim- Barbara Cook
11-05-02 Movin Out
10-15-02 Dance of the Vampires
10-06-02 Take Me Out
09-22-02 Amour
08-26-02 Hairspray
08-18-02 Merrily We Roll Along
08-03-02 Frankie and Johnnie at the Clair du Lune
08-03-02 Hairspray
06-01-02 The Graduate
05-26-02 The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?
05-26-02 Urinetown
04-13-02 Thoroughly Modern Millie
03-03-02 At Liberty- Elaine Stritch
03-02-02 Sweet Smell of Success
11-03-01 Noises Off
10-12-01 Mamma Mia!
10-06-91 Reefer Madness
09-29-01 Puppetry of the Penis
09-29-01 Thou Shalt Not
09-01-01 Urinetown
09-01-01 Batboy
04-01-01 The Producers
03-28-01 Follies
03-19-01 Follies
03-04-01 A Class Act
02-06-01 Rocky Horror Show
01-24-01 Rocky Horror Show
01-24-01 Jane Eyre
11-12-00 Seussical
11-02-00 The Search for Intelligent Life- Lily Tomlin
10-14-00 The Full Monty
04-08-00 Contact
03-18-00 Audra McDonald
03-15-00 James Joyce’ The Dead
12-11-99 Kiss Me Kate
11-26-99 Marie Christine
11-05-99 Naked Boys Singing
04-23-99 Betty Buckley
03-07-99 Annie Get Your Gun
01-17-99 Fosse
12-16-98 Parade
06-14-98 Quidam- Cirque du Soleil
05-30-98 Cabaret
01-21-98 Ragtime
11-23-97 The Lion King
11-22-97 Side Show
07-12-97 Gross Indecency
04-19-97 Titanic
01-19-97 Forbidden Broadway
11-23-96 Chicago
11-06-96 Chicago
05-23-96 Big
05-22-96 Rent
03-24-96 Getting Away with Murder
02-18-96 Jekyll and Hyde
10-28-95 Patti LuPone on Broadway
10-08-95 Victor Victoria
09-22-95 Indiscretians
09-02-95 Company revival
04-26-95 How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying
04-15-95 Party
04-09-95 Allegria- Cirque du Soleil
12-30-94 Love! Valour! Compassion!
11-01-94 Sunset Blvd
10-11-94 Showboat
06-04-94 Passion
11-27-93 Tommy
10-23-93 Perestroika- Angels in America
09-17-93 Jeffrey
08-12-93 Karen Akers
06-05-93 Fool Moon
06-04-93 Tommy
04-24-93 Millineum Approaches-Angels in America
04-24-93 Kiss of the Spider Woman
04-23-93 Blood Brothers
03-06-93 Penn and Teller
02-27-93 The Goodbye Girl
12-26-92 Forbidden Christmas
07-19-92 Karen Akers
07-03-92 Falsettos
05-08-92 Penn and Teller
04-18-92 Guys n’ Dolls
04-14-92 Falsettos
03-28-92 Crazy for You
10-19-91 Andre Heller’s Wonderhouse
08-18-91 Bernadette Peters
05-22-91 Miss Saigon
05-21-91 The Will Roger’s Follies
04-17-91 The Secret Garden
04-17-91 Once on this Island
04-14-91 Nouvelle Experience- Cirque du Soleil
09-14-90 Falsettoland
08-21-90 Bernadette Peters
03-28-90 Aspects of Love
01-06-90 City of Angels
01-05-90 Grand Hotel
09-30-89 Merrily We Roll Along
09-02-89 Soul Survivor
09-02-89 Lend Me a Tenor
07-29-89 Privates on Parade
05-27-89 Largely New York
05-27-89 Starmites
02-25-89 Jerome Robbin’s Broadway
02-18-89 Born Yesterday
09-12-88 Forbidden Broadway
08-06-88 Into the Woods
06-04-88 M Butterfly
05-07-88 Chess
05-07-88 Driving Miss Daisy
04-18-88 Anything Goes
03-26-88 Breaking the Code
02-13-88 Phantom of the Opera
12-12-87 Nunsense
03-21-87 Les Miserables
02-28-87 Starlight Express
02-21-87 Les Miserables
01-17-87 Steppin Out
09-18-86 Nicholas Nickleby revival
08-16-86 Me & My Girl
05-23-86 Big Deal
05-23-86 Sweet Charity
04-19-86 Loot
03-08-86 Big River
12-14-85 Michael Feintstein
12-13-85 The Mystery of Edwin Drood
10-23-85 The Search for Intelligent Life- Lily Tomlin
09-21-85 Song & Dance
04-27-85 La Cage aux Folles
04-26-85 3 Guys Naked from the Waist Down
04-25-85 Forbidden Broadway
02-23-85 Leader of the Pack
02-14-85 La Cage aux Folles
06-16-84 Sunday in the Park with George
06-04-83 My One and Only
06-01-83 Cats
12-18-82 Merlin
10-09-82 Cats
10-06-82 Nine
08-17-82 Little Shop of Horrors
06-14-82 Torch Song Trilogy
05-15-82 Nine
05-14-82 Dreamgirls
03-06-82 Joseph $ His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
12-05-81 The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
10-24-81 A Chorus Line
10-15-81 Evita
05-01-81 I Ought to be in Pictures
05-01-81 Barnum
03-30-81 42nd Street
02-20-81 Woman of the Year
12-08-80 The Pirates of Penzance
11-15-80 Sweeney Todd
07-19-80 Camelot
02-05-80 Peter Pan
01-20-80 Bent
01-08-80 Children of a Lesser God
12-23-79 Dancin!
12-10-79 Divine Madness- Bette Midler
12-01-79 Deathtrap
10-20-79 A Chorus Line
02-25-79 Ballroom
02-12-79 On the 20th Century
08-18-79 Gemini
07-15-79 Sweeney Todd
06-27-79 The Madwoman of Central Park West
06-01-79 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
12-30-78 Chicago
11-24-78 Gotham
11-12-78 The Wiz
10-02-78 Eubie!
09-20-78 A Chorus Line
09-15-78 The Music Man
08-18-78 Dancin!
07-20-78 The Act- Liza Minnelli
08-10-77 Alvin Ailey Dance
07-08-77 Norman, Is That You?
04-14-77 Of Mice and Men
09-15-76 A Chorus Line
03-04-76 Jesus Christ Superstar
10-17-75 Pippin
10-17-75 Oh, Calcutta!
08-15-75 The Leaf People
08-18-74 Grease
05-10-74 Hair
09-10-73 Grease
06-20-72 Godspell
05-15-72 Hair
06-14-71 Godspell
08-16-70 The Fantastiks



Updated On: 7/30/08 at 10:56 AM

[once a month]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 9:32pm

bump! (sorry...)

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 9:35pm

Impressive! I hope to someday to have seen that many productions.

[Gary Indiana]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 9:54pm

Wow! I am extremely jealous of some of these, especially the earlier ones.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 9:56pm

You saw I OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES?

Color me jealous.

How was Dinah Manoff?

[Bwayfan4]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 10:20pm

You should REALLY get out to the theatre more often. (insert sarcasm here)
Updated On: 7/29/08 at 10:20 PM

[broadwayboy101]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 10:23pm

Count me among the envious.

[Patash]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 11:12pm

I agree it's an impressive list, but it is over a period of 38 years. It averages something like one show a month it appears. Lots of great theatre. I don't have such a list, but when I think of the festivals I've gone to over and over again seeing 7 or 8 shows in a four day period, or the 14 shows in 10 days in London every year, or the 23 shows I just saw in one month in NYC (typical about once a year for me), or even the 12 shows a year the community theatre I've been involved with for 32 years now, I shudder to think what my list would look like in pretty much that same period. But I'll tell you what REALLY impresses me -- the fact that you have this list. I've long lost track of my playbills and couldn't begin to put together such an accurate list. Very impressive.

[Weez]

Posted: 7/30/08 at 6:16am

I could totally do an accurate spot-on list for me, as of July 2006. That's when I started scrapbooking my theatre trips. So now I'm a nerd with scrapbooks. But if I ever decide to list all my theatre trips one day, it'll be a simple simple matter of just copying my contents pages. :3

Considering how much I've done in two years though, I don't even want to think about what another thirty-six years might do for my list...

Updated On: 7/30/08 at 06:16 AM

[once a month]

Posted: 7/30/08 at 8:24am

Thank you for your replies! I excluded all community and regional theatre because the list would've been impossible to complete. I also didn't include productions that I was in or directed (that would've padded the list by over a thousand).
I find it remarkable that so many of the musicals I began with in the 1970's have come full circle, have had movies made and are already being revived on Broadway. I never felt myself getting older until all these recent revivals!

Dinah Manoff was quite good in "pictures", although it was as far from 'Soap' as she could get. I also saw her in Leader of the Pack with Patrick Cassidy, Darlene Love and Ellie Greenwich herself.

Many times I've sheduled more than one show in a day, or several in a weekend. I try not to do that anymore because I invariably love one show and hate the other; I'd much rather see one theatrical endeavor at a time, so as not too muddle the memories.

[once a month]

Posted: 7/30/08 at 3:37pm

Weez

Those few scrap books will blossom into one or more rooms devoted to the stage in a couple of decades time, I assure you!