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Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#25Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:06pmProducers 8/19/05, St. James Theatre, Mezz A101
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
egghumor
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
#26Name 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.
#27Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:06pmA 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.
"The price of love is loss, but still we pay; We love anyway."
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#28Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:10pmBeauty and the Beast at the Palace in spring 1996 starring Kerry Butler, Steve Blanchard (s/b Beast), and Marc Kudisch.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#29Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:12pm1978 - Grease. My sister took me.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#30Name 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.
Broadway61004
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/11
#31Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:19pmThe King and I with Donna Murphy and Lou Diamond Phillips--December 1996.
#32Name 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?
thismyshow
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/11
#33Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:41pm2009 revival of HAIR
HummingAlong
Stand-by Joined: 12/22/10
#34Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:44pmIt was March of '95 - I was 9 and Jerry Lewis captivated me as Applegate in Damn Yankees.
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#35Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:45pmi 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.
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#36Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:48pmThe Producers in 2005 - replaccements: John Treacy Egan, Hunter Foster, Gary Beach, Angie Schworer, Bill Nolte.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#37Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:52pmThe Scottsborro Boys' penultimate performance last year. I think I snatched up the last remaining ticket. Stroke of luck that was.
#38Name 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
#39Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/26/11 at 11:38pmI still remember when top ticket price was $47.50.
Recreation of original John Cameron orchestration to "On My Own" by yours truly. Click player below to hear.
wickedfan11
Broadway Star Joined: 6/17/06
#40Name 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)
#41Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/26/11 at 11:49pmLatest would be The Normal Heart earlier this month, and that makes #409 I believe. Also more than 100 off, off-off, also in London.
MichaelRhodus
Chorus Member Joined: 7/14/10
#42Name 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.
Doretta2
Swing Joined: 5/7/11
#43Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/27/11 at 12:15amSophisticated Ladies - 1981
jakebloke
Broadway Star Joined: 5/29/03
#44Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/27/11 at 12:20am1996. 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.
egghumor
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
#45Name 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.
broadwaybabe1234
Stand-by Joined: 5/3/09
#46Name 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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Doretta2
Swing Joined: 5/7/11
#47Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/27/11 at 1:00amYes, 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.
Cape Twirl of Doom
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#48Name 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.
"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"
Updated On: 5/27/11 at 01:10 AM
#49Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway
Posted: 5/27/11 at 1:27amNot 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.
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