Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
wendy72
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/04
#0Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/15/04 at 10:26pm
I was reading the thread about top performances and it got me thinking about performers/performances I wished I had made the effort to see, such as:
Natasha Richardson/Alan Cumming-"Cabaret"--knew I should have purchased tickets when The Roundabout called. It won the Tonys soon after and forget it!
Hunter Foster in "Urinetown", and the OBC. Seeing him perform years ago on the Tonys "Run, Freedom, Run!" and now listening to the OCR, I truly wish I had seen this cast. (Caught it on tour.) I had plently of opportunity, but I suppose I stayed away because of the title and did not know what it was about.
Sutton Foster in "TMM", only because everyone describes her performance as a force of nature, and would have like to have seen that power.
#1re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/15/04 at 10:27pmWould have loved to see Jelly's Last Jam with greg Hines
Attend the tale of Bovine Boy
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But does he have Mad Cow Disease?
He doesn't eat beef - but cows skating? - oh please!!!
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And lemonade!?!
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#2re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/15/04 at 10:30pm
I wish I could have seen Douglas Sills in LSOH. He is a GREAT actor but his understudy was on when I went to see the show.
BTW-His understudy, Darren Ritchie(currently in Dracuala) was really good.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
VeuveClicquot
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/04
#3re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/15/04 at 10:31pm
I had a ticket for FALSETTOLAND at Playwrights Horizons, and I inadvertently slept through it.
I did get to see it when it moved to the Lortel, and then when it became FALSETTOS on Broadway, but I missed the original production because of a faulty alarm clock.
wendy72
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/04
#4re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/15/04 at 10:33pmJacob, I did see Douglas Sills in LSOH, he was good, great voice. Good pairing with Hunter. (I won't mention Kerry.)
#5re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/15/04 at 10:36pm
I saw everyone but him and they were ALL great.
One of these days I will see him on a stage.
*In lush barritone voice*
TILL THEN
THIS I SWEAR
THIS I SWEAR BY.......THE STARS!
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#6re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/15/04 at 10:38pmNathan and Matthew in their reprise run of THE PRODUCERS. Fourth row, good price. My damned sisters just HAD to go to soho instead, didn't they!
OhSoWicked
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/04
#7re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/15/04 at 10:47pm
Sutton in TMM because of all the praise she got.
Granted this show is still going on, but I had tickets to Moving Out when broadway went on strike ohhh a year ago? Got my money refunded but never got around to getting replacement tickets...don't know if I even want to anymore. But it was a dissapointment then.
#8re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/15/04 at 10:54pm
TABOO! I wanted to see it, but there was always some other show I wanted to go to first, so I said to myself "Oh, it'll be around in a few months", and then it closed.
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
bstarr
Swing Joined: 5/20/04
#9re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 1:28amThe original cast of The Lion King, I have a thing for Max Casella. My mother had bought tickets but I threatened to run away from home because I was going through that teenaged phase where you wouldn't be caught dead with your parents. What a shame...I'm still kicking myself over it.
#10re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 1:46am
Nathan and Matthew in THE PRODUCERS 
#11re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 1:46amSorry.. 2xpost
Updated On: 12/16/04 at 01:46 AM
#12re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 1:47am
RENT OBC
Alan/Natasha in Cabaret... Raul, too.
Raul in Tick, Tick.... BOOM!
Raul in Taboo
Norbert in Wicked... or RENT for that matter.
Cheyenne in Aida
Type_A_Tiff
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/04
#13re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 1:54am
Rent OBC (but I didn't really have an opportunity to see them to begin with)
The Producers OBC (my aunt didn't want SRO tickets)
Assassins Revival
Avenue Q
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"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
#14re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 2:06am
I still cannot believe that I never got to see MISS SAIGON. It was one of those things we always thought would be here. I will always regret that.
missed opportunity:
TABOO opening night
JEKYLL AND HYDE OBC
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#15re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 2:07amthoroughly modern millie opening week...opted to see oklahoma instead
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#16re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 2:09am
Marin Mazzie in "Kiss Me Kate"
Vanessa Redgrave in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (I still have not forgiven myself for that one)
"Cabaret"
#17re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 2:11amI did see LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT on the final performance, and I absolutley hated the entire thing. I didn't see what all the acclaim was about, and thought Vanessa was not so good. I'm definitely in the minority on THAT one, but if it makes you feel any better...
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#18re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 3:03amThe T2C presentations back in August. Stupid bad timing in my life!!!!!!!!! If they had been a week before and I could have gone. Now I'm depressed again. "Consuela! Get me my happy pills!"
My avatar is a reminder to myself. I need lots of reminders...
Updated On: 1/2/05 at 03:03 AM
Musetta1957
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#19re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 3:41am
Brian Noonan in/as Jekyll & Hyde. Was an unemployed student then (as opposed to employed student now).
Ruthie Henshall in Chicago on tour. It came through Sacramento but I didn't put forth the effort. Hmph.
Urinetown in Toronto -- okay, so I'd have to have saved up a LOT of money for this, but if I had known earlier I might've tried. 
More performances of a local production of The Secret Garden. It was the first regional production of anything that I saw twice, and no theatre in my immediate area has put it on since.
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#20re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 11:04am
Brian Stokes Mitchell's Man of La Mancha.
It opened in National Theatre of DC which is very close to me. Then it transfered to NY and last for a year.
But I never heard about this show, neither about Stokes. When I finally listened to the OBC and was blown away by Impossible dream in Oct, 2003. It is 3 months late .
I want to die to get another chance. But it is an impossible dream.
QueenMuppet
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/29/04
#21re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 11:09am
Bernadette Peters in Gypsy
QM
'He really wasn't good as Fieyro. Is it just me or does he sort of come across as a pimp? Just...the hand motions I've seen him do and the attitude..not that Taye is a pimp.' - SallyBrown on Taye Diggs as Fiyero
#22re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 11:14amPatti LuPone in "Evita". I had a chance to see a preview but chose Sweeney Todd instead. After finally seeing Evita, after Miss. Lupone had left the show, I wished I had seen her but was glad I saw Angela Lansbury in Sweeney.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#23re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 11:17am
Smokey Joe's Cafe
How to Succeed revival
State Fair
Little Shop
Wonderful Town
Elaine Paige in Sunset Boulevard
The Producers
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#24re: Performances you had an opportunity to see, but missed
Posted: 12/16/04 at 11:22am
Urinetown
Big River
Into the Woods Revival
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
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