Shows you wished you had seen.

#1

Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:51pm

We all have shows that we wish we did not see...but what about the ones you never got to see?

For me it is Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. For some reason it looked funny, but I chose other shows in NYC to see. After hearing the cd though, I wish I had seen it. I am sure in no way can the cd do the show justice (as in Spelling Bee). But it seems like it was very good.

What about you?

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Updated On: 4/16/07 at 03:51 PM

#2

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:57pm

Fame Becomes Me
Sweet Charity [with Christina Applegate]

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#3

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:01pm

One from long before I was born "Take Me Along" with Jackie Gleason, and several flops "In My Life" and "Good Vibrations"

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#4

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:02pm

"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
"See What I Wanna See"
"Sweet Charity"

#5

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:02pm

""Good Vibrations" "

I wish I'd see that as well.
I bought a poster from Broadway Cares Flea Market.
It looked cheesy, yet entertaining.

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"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.

#6

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:03pm

Wicked with Idina

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#7

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:07pm

The original Follies, Gypsy, Hello Dolly!, Sweet Charity, and Chicago. The Sweeney Todd revival and the revival of The Pajama Game. Follies at Encores. Christine Ebersole in Mame.

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Updated On: 4/16/07 at 04:07 PM

#8

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:11pm

Passion
See What I Wanna See
Once on this Island
Dessa Rose
Ragtime

#9

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:12pm

All the Golden Age shows. With Ethel, Carol, Mary, etc. West Side Story, Gypsy, Hello Dolly....

Off-Broadway Wild Party

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#10

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:15pm

CARRIE, CARRIE, CARRIE
LESTAT
WONDERFUL TOWN W/BROOKE SHIELDS

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#11

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:15pm

Oh, wait! If we can go back in time, then the original Dreamgirls, A Chorus Line, West Side Story, Show Boat, and Oklahoma!

#12

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:19pm

"Wicked with Idina"

You were blessed NOT to see her in Wicked.

#13

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:29pm

assassins

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#14

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:32pm

Opening nights of Show Boat (1927), Oklahoma (1943), The Wiz (1975), Dreamgirls (1981), Threepenny Opera (1927).

Also, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, OBC of Hello, Dolly!, OBC of Gypsy, Angela in Gypsy, OBC of Follies.

And countless others that I wasn't alive or at a theatre-going age to see.

#15

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:35pm

peter pan with jean arthur

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#16

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:35pm

The Scarlet Pimpernel, original cast...
Loved the movie, love the music, LOVE Terrance Mann...need I say more?

#17

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:38pm

I want to also add the Actors Fund concerts of Hair and Best Little Whorehouse.

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#18

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 5:21pm

Taboo
Contact

#19

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 5:41pm

As for Idina in Wicked-Loved her performance. She was excellent, in my opinion.

Wish I'd seen: Original cast of Rent, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in "The Producers" (just to know what made their chemistry so special), Sunday in the Park With George OBC, Into the Woods OBC

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#20

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 5:43pm

Carrie
Original Dreamgirls
original Nine

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#21

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 6:16pm

The OBC of
Wicked (Idina and Cheno)
Rent
The Apple Tree

#22

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 6:19pm

The original productions of:

-Gypsy
-Follies
-A Little Night Music
-Sweeney Todd
-Death of a Salesman
-110 in the Shade
-Dreamgirls
-Cabaret

Also: The Threepenny Opera with Lotte Lenya, and Leontyne Price or Maria Callas in anything.

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#23

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 6:22pm

'Coram Boy'. It completely sold out at the National Theatre before I got round to booking my ticket.

Also I'm terribly sad I didn't get to New York in time to see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', 'The Light In The Piazza', the 'Sweeney Todd' revival, or 'Evil Dead: The Musical'. I'll get over it, but it's still sad.

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#24

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 6:24pm

Private Lives with either Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence or Maggie Smith and John Standing
Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne in anything they did
Gypsy with Ethel Merman
Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall
Candide with Barbara Cook and Robert Rounsville
The Beatles at Shea Stadium
The original On the Town
Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady
Mary Martin in Annie Get Your Gun or South Pacific
Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie
Kim Stanley in Bus Stop
The Marx Brothers in Animal Crackers
Liberace in Concert

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Updated On: 4/16/07 at 06:24 PM

#25

re: Shows you wished you had seen.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 6:28pm

Once Upon a Mattress!