Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway

[egghumor]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 8:18pm

In the same week, summer 1971:
TWO BY TWO
FOLLIES
COMPANY (2nd cast)

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 8:19pm

That's three shows. Not the first.

[quizking101]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 8:20pm

First Musical:
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - February 2, 1999 (with Toni Braxton and James Barbour)...I was 4.

First Play: GOD OF CARNAGE (with Jimmy Smits, Christine Lahti, Annie Potts and Ken Stott) - February 28, 2010.

(Note: There was an 8 year span between my first Broadway show, and my second, RENT in 2007).

Updated On: 5/27/11 at 08:20 PM

[egghumor]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 8:23pm

Ok, Jordan, TWO BY TWO. Happy Now? I suppose you were backstage at the time, talking to Martin Charnin, right?

[rjjn]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 8:34pm

Annie Get Your Gun - August 2000
w/ Bernadette Peters & Tom Wopat

[BroadwayBound115]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 8:41pm

October 15, 2008 - Young Frankenstein in Previews.

I was there with my high school and we saw 6 shows that weekend

Young Frankenstein
Mary Poppins
Rock and Roll
Spelling Bee
Curtains
Spring Awakening

It was my first time to NY and I've been back at least once every year after.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 8:42pm

Nope, I was born in '78. Sorry to disappoint you.

[charlesjguiteau]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 8:44pm

Great thread-- now we'll finally find out everyone's true age.

1st: Fiddler on the Roof in '67 with Harry Goz (3rd Tevye, I believe)
2nd: A Little Night Music, New Year's Eve '73 with Glynis Johns and the OBC.

I envy egghumor knowing just when to start going to the great sondheim-prince epics. Damn, girl!

[WalkinglnSpace]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 8:52pm

Les Miserables in Dec 2006

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 8:59pm

The Les Miz revival in May of 2007.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 9:02pm

It was one of these 3

Here's Love
Oh What A Lovely War
Oliver

[My Oh My]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 9:07pm

Original production of Les Miserables at the Imperial in the summer of '97.

[Huss417]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 9:10pm

First for me was The Wiz in 1975 a school trip.

It was funny we use to see a lot of shows for school trips that when they would announce we would be going to New York to see a show a lot of the kids would moan. I was the one who was always elated.

And now 36 years later I still have not lost my love and have passed that love on to my two nieces. One who is actually writing a play and the other who is a theatre major. ; )

[onesongglory2]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 9:18pm

The Who's Tommy in 1995.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 9:19pm

Phantom

[MissAnneThrop]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 9:39pm

A Chorus Line (At the Shubert)

[Katia2]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 9:45pm

Gypsy, May 2003.

[JillianSch]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 9:45pm

John Stamos in "How to succeed...." late '95ish. I was 6 and thought I was soo cool for seeing Uncle Jessie in person. dork

[willep]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 9:48pm

SPAMALOT. The day it won the Tony for Best Musical. Chris Sieber and Sara Ramirez were both out, Darlene Wilson was awful.

[pc1145N2]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 9:53pm

Who's Life is it Anyway? with Tom Conti

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 9:53pm

Beauty and The Beast
(All I remember was Chris Sieber was Gaston and it was during BCEFA collections)

[Finch]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 9:56pm

The Music Man -- 8/11/56 [Matinee] -- Majestic Theatre -- Orch W12

[singingbackup]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:01pm

A CHORUS LINE
February 1978
Shubert Theater

Even had drinks at Sardis. My parents lied to the waiter and said I was 19 (the drinking age at the time) I was 15.

[Broadwaywest]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:05pm

Into the Woods (1988 I was 8 years a old)

The coolest thing though, since it was shown on PBS and released on DVD, I will always have that memory.

[steven22]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:05pm

WICKED in December 2004 with Idina Menzel and Megan Hilty (s/b Glinda for Jennifer Laura Thompson)