Name the 1st Broadway show you saw -- on Broadway — Page 7

the revival of La Cage that just closed <3. with The original cast.
One of the best nights of my life. I met the whole cast after.

Annie. With my parents, I was pretty young. It must have been near the end of the Broadway run, because I believe Alyson Kirk was playing Annie.

Pretty sure the first big musical I ever saw, though not technically Broadway, was Snow White at Radio City Music Hall... it was a live-action adaptation of the Disney movie, and they used to play it on HBO every year for a while. Picked up a (very very illegal) DVD copy of it at the Broadway Flea Market a few years back, and was thrilled to find it!

First show was in 1984, La Cage au Faux.

First play was the same trip, Noises Off, with the wonderful Dorothy Loudon.

Also saw the first(?) incarnation of Forbidden Broadway at Paulson's.

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Rent. January 2005. Got the tickets as a present for my 16th birthday.

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Nanette 1972 -- Ruby Keeler was out sick that night, but I did see Patsy Kelly.

1979: Whoopee! at the ANTA Theatre (now the August Wilson)

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Summer of 1977, when I was 7. I can't remember which show came first, but we saw the original cast in Annie and The Wiz.

i love this thread.

my first broadway show was the original cast of The Secret Garden. I was sitting with my family in the balcony, and all I remember is the end of the first act, when Daisy Eagan freezes as she's putting the key into the lock to open the gates. I was mesmerized as to how she could hold that still. Then I remember looking over at my family and seeing them all sleeping.

That same trip i saw Will Rogers Follies and offbway's Blue Man Group. It was my introduction to Broadway, and I've loved it ever since.

I saw WHOOPEE! in the summer of 1979, I was 12 and my brother was 10 and my mother took us in to see a matinee. The idea was to do TKTS, but my mom didn't realize the line would be so long. So we began to walk uptown and couldn't decide, so we wound up seeing the show at the "last" theater on the walk, the ANTA on 52nd Street (now the August Wilson).

I was 12 and it was my first show, and a while ago, but I remember sitting in the rear mezzanine and it seemed really far from the stage. The lead actor, Charles Repole, was charming, funny and sang well. The show was corny and dated - and if I felt that way at 12 I can only imagine how adults must have felt.

Funny enough, I don't remember it feeling long. Something I suffer from now.

Second Show, First Play: DEATHTRAP with John Cullum and Madian Seldes!

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The Tap Dance Kid in 1984 or 85!

If we don't count Monty Python at City Center in 1976, it would be 42nd Street in 1982 with Jerry Orbach and the replacement for Peggy Sawyer was Lisa Brown. Was it the Winter Garden?

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Mame in 1969.

The 2009 revival of West Side Story. It was a very good production and I was very impressed for my first broadway production, Until I saw more shows :)