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Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
#25re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 2:09pm
Michael Moriarity & Jane Alexander in Find Your Way Home
Uta Hagen in The Seagull and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Leonard Nimoy in Equus
George C Scott in Plaza Suite
Wendy Hiller in Moon for the Misbegotten
Liza Minnelli in Victor/Victoria
Mimi Hines in Funny Girl
Tony Randall in M Butterfly
"Love Life. Live." Michael Bennett
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#26re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 2:11pm
You people make me feel old. I think I've seen nearly all of the performances listed that took place after 1975 or so. Sigh...
My list:
Laurette Taylor in THE GLASS MAENAGERIE
Orson Welles' "Voodoo Macbeth"
ROMEO AND JULIET (London, 1930s with Olivier, Gielgud and Evans)
STREETCAR OBC (Brando, Tandy et al)
STREETCAR with Tallulah Bankhead (bet it was a hoot)
WAITING FOR LEFTY opening night
Helen Hayes in VICTORIA REGINA
OTHELLO (Robeson, Hagen, Ferrer)
BUS STOP OBC
Merman in GYPSY
Merman in GIRL CRAZY
Verdon in CAN-CAN (opening night when she stopped the show)
THE ZOO STORY OOBC
Streisand in I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE
Streisand in FUNNY GIRL
VIRGINIA WOOLF OBC (Hagen) and Matinee (Stritch) cast
Genet's THE BLACKS (James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, et al)
Angela Lansbury in MAME
Verdon in SWEET CHARITY
Zoe Caldwell in THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
Vanessa Redgrave in THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE (London)
Vanessa Redgrave in AS YOU LIKE IT (London, early 1960s)
Vanessa Redgrave in THE LADY FROM THE SEA
James Earl Jones in THE GREAT WHITE HOPE
Maureen Stapleton in THE GINGERBREAD LADY
HAIR OBC
FOLLIES OBC
EQUUS (OBC and with Richard Burton)
Angela Lansbury in GYPSY
CHICAGO (OBC and with Minnelli)
Irene Worth in SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH
Meryl Streep in 27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON
VIRGINIA WOOLF with Ben Gazarra and Colleen Dewhurst
VIRGINIA WOOLF with Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Swoosie Kurtz and James Naughton
BALLROOM with Dorothy Loudon
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Updated On: 6/9/05 at 02:11 PM
mikewood
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/05
#27re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 2:11pm
Richard Kiley in Man of LaMancha. (with my dad)
Robert Preston in the Music Man
Betty Buckley in Cats
Deborah Gibson in Les Miserables preferably with
Lea Salonga in Les Miserables
BLAH BLAH BLAH
mikewood
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/05
#28re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 2:16pm
I can get behind Cheno in Wicked
and the OBC in Rent too!
BLAH BLAH BLAH
mikewood
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/05
#29re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 2:18pm
This Is Our Youth- Most Of The Casts ....
I wished I saved the program when I saw it in New York.
BLAH BLAH BLAH
#30re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 2:23pm
The entire OBC of Rent, live
Natasha Richardson and Alan Cuming in Cabaret
Hugh Jackman in The Boy from Oz (the sad part is I thought about it for a few minutes and then decided against it because I heard the show was bad)
Assassins 2004 cast
Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in the Producers
Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie
Idina Menzel in Aida
Norbert Leo Butz and Kristin Chenoweth in Wicked (I saw Joey, Idina and JLT)
"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe
#31re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 2:39pm
OBC of Side Show
OBC of Secret Garden
OBC of all the old shows (gypsy, mame, etc.)
Anthony, Kristin, Roger in You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Here's my starting list
Life is like a patio door, you never know which side is open... and then you run into the glass.... ~Connie and Carla
#32re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 3:15pm
THE LAST 5 YEARS with Norbie and Sherie
TICK, TICK...BOOM! with Raul
#33re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 3:19pm
I agree Margo, I've seen alot of what everyone else posted. I feel so old.
I like your list, we share a couple that we would have liked to see.
I saw a couple on your list - but my favorite by far was Irene Worth in Sweet Bird of Youth. I was 14 and the ending really disturbed me.
#34re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 3:35pm
Laurette Taylor in "The Glass Menagerie"
"A Streetcar Named Desire"-OBC
Ben Gazzarra and Barbara Bel Geddes in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
"Anyone Can Whistle"-OBC
Ethel Merman in "Gypsy"
"Follies"-OBC
Robert Preston and Barbara Cook in "The Music Man"
Gertie Lawrence in "The King and I"
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"-OBC, Broadway revival cast, Long Wharf production (Nichols and May)
"An Evening with Nichols and May"
Barbara Harris in "The Apple Tree"
"Company"-OBC
"A Little Night Music"-OBC
Angela Lansbury in "Gypsy"
Irene Worth in "Happy Days" (have seen the phenomenal Broadway Theatre Archive DVD, but wish I could have seen it live)
"For Colored Girls..."
#35re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 3:37pm
Picking a couple...
OBC - A Chorus Line
OBC - Into the Woods
Julie Andrews in anything
Celebrate Life
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#36re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 3:38pmAny performance of Sunday in the Park with George!
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#37re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 4:06pm
Butz and Scott in L5Y
Lithgow in Sweet Smell of Success
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musicnmath
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/13/05
#38re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 7:36pm
Off the top of my head:
Michael Arden - bare
Jai - Zanna, don't
Norbert and Sherie - L5Y
Hugh - Boy from Oz
Joanna Gleason/Bernadette Peters - Into the Woods
OBC - Lion King
OBC - Ragtime
Alice Ripley/Emily Skinner - Sideshow
...and something with Raul :)
Updated On: 6/9/05 at 07:36 PM
#39re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 7:42pm
Since mostly all of mine were mentioned, I'll just add one:
Anita Morris in NINE
OBC of GRAND HOTEL
OBC of THE APPLE TREE
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#40re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 7:47pm
Sorry this is off topic...
PJ, I LOOOOOOOOOOOve your avatar!
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
#41re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 7:51pm
alan cumming- cabaret
obc rent
angela lansbury- sweeny todd
norbert leo butz/ sherie renee scott- last five years
carol channing- hello dolly
obc hair
obc little shop
obc west side story
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#42re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 7:54pmWhy thank you, hannahshule. Unfortunately several others like it have popped up since this afternoon. What can ya do?
friesgirl
Chorus Member Joined: 5/13/03
#43re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 7:56pmI'm not sure this counts as legendary, but I'm upset, after hearing songs from it, that I never took the chance to see "The Full Monty" with the OBC.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#44re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 8:02pm
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
Updated On: 5/9/06 at 08:02 PM
elvenprincess971
Broadway Star Joined: 9/12/04
#45re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 8:09pm
Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott in L5Y
Alan Cumming in Cabaret
Original Cast of NINE
Original London Cast of Miss Saigon
Raul Esparza and the rest of the cast in the 2001 revival of Rocky Horror Show
...
Thats all i got for ya.
Love,
Miss Britt
#46re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 9:09pm
Oh God. Where to begin.
OBC Les Miz!!! (I was not even a year old. How did I get into the theater?)
OBC Drood
Donna Murphy as Edwin Drood in Drood
Ricky Martin as Marius in Les Miz (for laughs.)
Robert Westenberg as Javert in Les Miz
Gregg Edelman as Javert in Les Miz
Alice Ripley as Fantine in Les Miz
OBC Secret Garden
OBC Rent
OBC Into the Woods
OBC Sweeney Todd
Revival Sweeney Todd (the one around... '90?)
Revival Into the Woods
Revival A Funny Thing Happened...
Revival Nine
Revival Kiss Me Kate
OBC Side Show
Lea Salonga as Kim in Miss Saigon
I've seen a few of the things I've wanted to see (previously mentioned OBC of Les Miz, Sarah Uriarte Berry as Eponine in Les Miz, Rachel York as Fantine in Les Miz, OBC Ragtime, Revival Carousel, Brian Stokes Mitchell as Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha), but I was really young for most of them and don't remember. 
ainmama2001
Stand-by Joined: 6/3/05
#47re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 9:20pm
Menzel/Chenoweth - Wicked
Duncan - Peter Pan
Broderick/Lane - Producers
I WAS lucky enough to have seen Yul Brynner in his last Broadway run of "The King And I". It was the first Broadway musical I ever saw. It was such a great experience.
#48re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 9:21pm
OBC Rent
Susan Egan in Cabaret
Bernadette Peters in AGYG
Derech2
Featured Actor Joined: 10/24/04
#49re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 9:30pm
Lea Salonga MISS SAIGON
Jennifer Laura Thompson WICKED
Ruthie Henshall LES MISÉRABLES
Kristin Chenoweth YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
Coimhéad fearg fhear na foighde.
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