Only 1 Show to See

Posted: 7/8/03 at 7:51pm

Here's the premise. You and a guest have been given a full day in Manhattan, all expenses paid. You are given a choice to see one Broadway musical with the original cast exactly as performed during opening week of the show. The fact that it may not actually be on a Broadway stage today is of no consequence. It's the opening week, the house is SRO and you are there. Prime seats. Your choice can only be one from this list. Not 2, not 3. Only 1. Which one would it be?

A) HAIRSPRAY
B) MY FAIR LADY
C) THE PRODUCERS
D) HELLO, DOLLY!
E) OKLAHOMA!
F) CATS
G) A CHORUS LINE
H) RENT
I) WEST SIDE STORY
J) GYPSY
K) HAIR
L) FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

Yours for a better Broadway! Updated On: 7/8/03 at 07:51 PM

[BatBoi]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 8:08pm

West Side Story! WOOOHOOOOOOO

[Duane Reade]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 8:09pm

Yeah, I go with West Side Story, although I will always have a soft spot for the original cast of Rent.

[MsNina]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 8:11pm

No Millie? Then I'll sing out at Gypsy.

[sharon1]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 8:23pm

My Fair Lady. Hands Down

[luluhed]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 8:26pm

None of those were among my favorites, so I just chose the one I'd like best from them- West Side Story.

[CaTheatreGirl]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 8:26pm

Hello Dolly! I'd loved to have seen it with Carol Channing.

[Broadwaylady]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 8:36pm

Sitting with DP at Hello Dollllllllllly.....

[jillchris]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 8:44pm

Well, since Nine isn't on the list (EITHER version), I'd pick "The Producers" - original cast, that is.

"Chorus Line" was pretty amazing too.

[moljul]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 8:45pm

No question. My Fair Lady. To see Julie Andrews on stage when she was at her stage heyday. I wouldn't pass that up for anything. Seeing her in Victor/Victoria was fun but I would love to see her in a good show when her voice was in top form.

[DofB5]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 8:48pm

I agree. It's My Fair Lady or bust.

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[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 9:01pm

I would actually love to see RENT with its original cast. That would be awesome.

[flaemmchen]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 9:02pm

Gypsy. I can never tire of the score, or the story. Just give me a good Mama Rose and I'll be happy.

[broadway geek]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 9:36pm

MY FAIR LADY!! Hands down. Julie Andrews and her RRRRRs. Would have loved to see that.

[PJ]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 9:38pm

Gypsy

[BrdwyThtr]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 10:54pm

A Chorus Line

[billyweeds]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 10:54pm

It's hard to choose. All four of my favorite all-time musicals are on the list. But since there has always been and I think always will be only one Ethel Merman, I'll take "Gypsy"--I saw Merman in it way back when and would love to have seen it again and again.

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 11:06pm

Fiddler On The Roof

[SONDHEIM8]

Posted: 7/9/03 at 12:24am

Tough choices but I would have to go with MY FAIR LADY.






LINK: Tracy, you look beautiful behind bars!

TRACY: It must be the low-watt institutional lighting!

[PennyWise]

Posted: 7/9/03 at 12:53am

Hi! This is my first ever response on this board (though I've been reading for quite a while and LOVE it).... Good question. I guess I'd have to say "RENT" (though "THE PRODUCERS" is also tempting, I do love the original cast of RENT).

[Belter]

Posted: 7/9/03 at 12:56am

I saw The Producers and Rent with their OBCs (hated RENT)... I'd pick Oklahoma ... the chance to see the musical which changed Broadway? With Lorenz Hart in the audience and Rodgers and Hammerstein's first collaboration up there? Wow!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 7/9/03 at 1:12am

SOUTH PACIFIC, oh that's not on the list.

God, to be sitting front and center for the opening night of GYPSY would be heaven. And I mean the original production with the MERM!

[musicaltheatreman]

Posted: 7/9/03 at 1:56am

gypsy

[cabarethed]

Posted: 7/9/03 at 2:07am

No Cabaret?? That's the only OBC I'm literally beating myself up for not seeing. Then I choose The Producers.

[scooter38432]

Posted: 7/9/03 at 7:34am

I think I'd have to go with GYPSY. To see Ethel Merman do that must have been amazing.

Second choice would be WEST SIDE STORY.

I can't believe so many people chose MY FAIR LADY! Yes, to see the great Dame Julie would be fabulous, but you'd have to sit through that ENDLESS show. If I had my Julie Andrews pick, it would be the OBC of CAMELOT -- the music is so much better than MFL.

Updated On: 7/9/03 at 07:34 AM