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#26

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:06pm

Producers 8/19/05, St. James Theatre, Mezz A101

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#27

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:06pm

SO MANY FAB posts already, thanks everyone!

I'd love to hear more from several of you. What binds us is that whatever moment in time, we fell in love.

Personally -- out of so many intersting ones -- I'd love to learn more about HERE'S LOVE (Michael Bennett was a dancer in that one), and Janis Paige was quite a Bdwy star in those days.

#28

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:06pm

A Streetcar Named Desire, July or August 1992. With Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange. Ironic that it was not a musical. I think it was at The Barrymore.

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#29

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

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

Beauty and the Beast at the Palace in spring 1996 starring Kerry Butler, Steve Blanchard (s/b Beast), and Marc Kudisch.

#30

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:12pm

1978 - Grease. My sister took me.

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#31

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:18pm

APPLAUSE with Lauren Bacall. (She was in it, of course -- I didn't see it 'with' her.)

I don't actually remember the show because I was so young, but I do know it was my first.

#32

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:19pm

The King and I with Donna Murphy and Lou Diamond Phillips--December 1996.

#33

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:32pm

"The King and I with Donna Murphy and Lou Diamond Phillips--December 1996."

Oh god I'm jealous. How was the set?

#34

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:41pm

2009 revival of HAIR

#35

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:44pm

It was March of '95 - I was 9 and Jerry Lewis captivated me as Applegate in Damn Yankees.

#36

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:45pm

i can't remember if it was the Mystery of Edwin Drood or Romeo and Juliet guest starring 'Elvin' from The Cosby Show. It's a blur to me.

#37

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:48pm

The Producers in 2005 - replaccements: John Treacy Egan, Hunter Foster, Gary Beach, Angie Schworer, Bill Nolte.

#38

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:52pm

The Scottsborro Boys' penultimate performance last year. I think I snatched up the last remaining ticket. Stroke of luck that was.

#39

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 11:32pm

Oct 1987 right after I moved here
La Cage Aux Folles @ the Palace closing month of original run
I still remember tickets were so small back then

#40

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 11:38pm

I still remember when top ticket price was $47.50.

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#41

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 11:38pm

Beauty and the Beast- July 2001
Steve Blanchard, Christopher Sieber, and an understudy for Belle (don't remember who)

#42

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

Posted: 5/26/11 at 11:49pm

Latest would be The Normal Heart earlier this month, and that makes #409 I believe. Also more than 100 off, off-off, also in London.

#43

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

Posted: 5/27/11 at 12:09am

THE ADDAMS FAMILY - February 2011
with Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth

And loved it, haters.

#44

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

Posted: 5/27/11 at 12:15am

Sophisticated Ladies - 1981

#45

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

Posted: 5/27/11 at 12:20am

1996. Miss Saigon, Big, and Victor Victoria. I can't remember which one I saw first. Tried to see Rent, but that was an impossible ticket. Also on a side note. In 15 years, the prices of tickets have doubled. A 50% off ticket at TKTS today is pretty much the same price as a full price in 1996. Crazy.

#46

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

Posted: 5/27/11 at 12:43am

MORE and more great stuff!

Mr. Rhodus, don't apologize for living THE ADDAMS FAMILY. I can only imagine how seeing consumate Broadway stars (Lane and Neuworth) and other strong Bway talent (Chamberlain, Hoffman, Carmello) for the first time must've been mesmerizing for you.

Doretta, wasn't SOPHISTCATED LADIES the Best!? I must've seen it seven times during its Bway run. Amazing on so many levels, but definitely NOT captured well in the video version -- or the OBC album as well.

#47

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

Posted: 5/27/11 at 12:52am

Patti Lupone Gypsy, 2008 is technically the first show i saw on Broadway and i was completely blown away!

but i saw the out of town try out of Shrek the musical a few months before and the only difference from the broadway production was it was in Seattle. Im not sure if that counts

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#48

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

Posted: 5/27/11 at 1:00am

Yes, Sophisticated Ladies was tremendous. We were visiting NYC at the time and decided to see it last-minute. Still, it turned out to be a wonderful choice.

#49

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

Posted: 5/27/11 at 1:10am

CATS, sometime around 1991. It was a school class trip and I just remember loving every minute of it. I had never seen such a thing before! I remember going to the library afterward to borrow the cast album and playing it over and over until I had it memorized.

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#50

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

Posted: 5/27/11 at 1:27am

Not sure if this was the absolute first (I was just a kid, and my parents don't recall), but we think it was Meet Me in St Louis in 1989. My dad recently told me it might have been Cats around the same time, but I want to keep believing it was Meet Me in St Louis.