Seeing Shows Multiple Times — Page 3

Well i'm a theatre fan myself but I'm just talkin about the girl who's seen spring awakening 200 times or the guy who's sent rent 1100 times, seems like beyond a healthy obsession to me

jordangrl,
you've seen shows 300 times, haha i think u might have meant the above poster

and someone start fundraising to buy this girl a hairspray ticket

What, like put them on "Intervention"? LOL...

Hee- can you imagine that "Intervention" marathon on A&E?:
Meth head...alcoholic...anorexic...sees too many Broadway shows...heroin addict...self-mutilator...

Updated On: 8/3/07 at 03:15 PM

I guess, I can only hope they brought a friend with them some of the time. I can also hope that they have or are planning a career in the Arts. You can get rush tickets. For this person, maybe, you buy a cheap ticket and see it often or an expensive one and go see something else.

I would just like to see something else. After the second time, unless you are supporting a friend or concept, how can you not find it too much? At least most shows change characters and sometimes views, so that helps it a little. It is easy to miss something in a show, that tempts me to watch it more than once but I like a lot of different things.

Some people just like the numbers too! Just so they can say I saw it blah, blah times. Now though about rehab. Do you send someone to really bad shows or really good ones to cure them?

As for it being better to sit in a Theatre verses your own Home? Depends? Often times on who is sitting next to you.

I would have a difficult time because I usually pick up the songs and want to sing. Haven't done it yet but I am dreading Jersey Boys because I know so many of the tunes. I won't but it will take some of the fun out of the experience for me. At home, I can sing, laugh, do a little dance! If I want to.

I don't see the problem seeing a show multiple times with different cast members, and some shows you need to see multiple times just to absorb everything (Les Mis for instance) but once you go past twenty, I think it becomes unhealthy. True, seeing Legally Blond 16 times in 4 months isn't really harmful, but would it kill him to see it 15 times and donate the money for the 16th ticket to charity instead?

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"I mean, it's one thing to have seen Rent 16 times over the last 11 years (which I still a lot IMO, but a little more sporadic)."

I thought that was funny because I actually HAVE seen RENT 16 times, over the last 8 years. But it was over the span of 8 years. I normally need a break after seeing a show twice in a short period of time. I definitely agree it would be wise to see other shows too, if you have the opportunity. But, then again, maybe he has seen them and this is just his favorite. Meh.

I've also seen other shows multiple times...Wicked (4 times, twice w/OBC, once with Shoshanna Bean, and once on tour with Stephanie Block), The Color Purple (Twice w/OBC), Into the Woods (3 times, though they were amateur productions...I will go to any production of ITW to see their take on it) Spelling Bee (twice with the OBC) Les Miserables (4 or 5 times, tours and Broadway revival) The Pillowman (3 times...twice on Broadway and one regional production). As an actor, I think this is something we do because we identify with the story, and because we like to observe the actors and their performances, and the variations in each performance. And if its a favorite performer, we want to be able to see them as much as possible while they are still in the show. I see it as kind of part of our work/research. And its fun. :)

Updated On: 8/3/07 at 04:26 PM

Updated On: 8/3/07 at 05:07 PM

Lizzie, if you're not secure, I don't know how much hope there is for the rest of us.

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*rimshot*

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Because you enjoy it?

I saw Sweeney Todd three times, including once from the front row. I don't get up to NYC much, but I don't regeret any time I saw it. I loved the show, and really nothing playing at the time interested me.

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Well I would hope we'd all be concerned if anyone considered suicide anyway.

What's wrong with seeing a show 40-50 times? I know people who go to the same vacation spot ever year, stay in the same town, frequent the same restaurants. Is it wrong for them to do that, because they aren't expanding their horizons to the rest of the world? Some people never leave New York. They still have unique, extraordinary experiences within a specific geographic location. The same can be said for a certain show. I doubt anyone involved in any show, whether they are a performer or fan, has completely explicated it to the point where there is nothing new to be discovered.

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...and you're bragging about it?

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