The First Play You Ever Saw?

[MarkRascati]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 2:57pm

The play I first saw was "Stones In His Pockets" in London around 2000. I loved it.

Do you remember what the first play you went to was?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 3:09pm

A Christmas Carol, when I was 8. If that counts.

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 3:11pm

i think mine was "the wizard of oz", when i was about 2 or 3. and i still remember it.

[pc1145N2]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 3:16pm

Who's Life Is It Anyway?

[gustof777]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 3:18pm

I have no idea what my first one ever was but I remember seeing a college production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in seventh grade and LOVED it and thought it was way more engaging than Dawson's Creek lol

but my first one on broadway was The Pillowman which was one of my favorite nights ever in the theater.

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 3:24pm

FLAHOOLEY with Barbara Cook(1951), at the Philadelphia pre- Broadway try-out. I was 10 years old so I missed the political overtones to the libretto, but I enjoyed the score and the Bill Baird Marionettes.

Updated On: 6/3/07 at 03:24 PM

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 3:26pm

The first play I ever saw live was probably OUR TOWN or A DOLL'S HOUSE. I have absolutely no idea, it was so long ago.

My first show on Broadway, though, was TOMMY.

[jg4892]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 3:28pm

Probably Phantom, on tour when I was 8.

[Broadwayfanatic2]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 3:31pm

Anne of Green Gables in P.E.I. was probably my first musical

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was my first Broadway musical

[Dirty_Rotten_Guy]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 3:42pm

the first Broadway play i saw was JULIUS CAESAR.
it was also the last.

sad, huh?

[bythesword84]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 5:08pm

The first Broadway play I ever saw was The Sunshine Boys with Tony Randall and Jack Klugman in 1998.

[AC126748]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 5:31pm

The first straight play I saw on Broadway was the HAMLET revival with Ralph Fiennes in 1995.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 5:33pm

Either The Goat or Hedda with Kate Burton.

[MarkRascati]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 8:57pm

The first Broadway show I saw was Hairspray

[unckristen]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 8:58pm

The first Broadway show I saw was Noises Off with Patti. Amazing night!

[little_sally]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 9:33pm

The first straight play I saw on Broadway was The Pillowman.

[freeadmission]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 9:35pm

Hamlet at the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival when I was about ten. I was hooked.

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 9:37pm

I can't seem to recall what my first musical or play was (outside of Broadway) 'cause that's going back almost 2 decades. I can, however, remember my first Broadway musical in 1776, I was 10 yrs. old. My first straight play was TALK RAD!O starring Liev Schreieber (this past March, actually).

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 9:40pm

First ever, seeing my brother play George in the high school drama club production of "Of Mice And Men" back in the '70's.

First professional production ever, the national tour of "Deathtrap" in 1979.

First Broadway show ever, "The Pirates of Penzance" with Linda Rondstadt, Kevin Kline, Rex Smith and George Rose in 1980/81.

First Broadway play ever, "The Real Thing" with Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close in 1984.

[vfd88]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 9:42pm

I have never seen a straight play on Broadway, but my first musical was Beauty and the Beast when I was 6. I loved it so much that my first grade teacher let me put on a production of it with my class that I directed and wrote (with my teacher's help) and starred as the Beast.

[bwayfan4ever2]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 9:55pm

First Broadway musical- Man of La Mancha 1972
First Broadway drama - Equus 1977

[wickedfanatic34]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 10:01pm

Play- Twelve Angry Men(revival)
Musical-Peter Pan (1999,revival)

[jordangirl]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 10:06pm

Wow... I honestly don't remember. I've been taken to things since I was little. Probably Godspell since my dad used to be a youth minister, and I usually went along with him and mom on youth stuff.

But on Broadway...

Play: The Vertical Hour
Musical: A Chorus Line (during its first run)

Updated On: 6/3/07 at 10:06 PM

[Piercemn]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 10:09pm

The first show I saw was a middle school production of The Sound of Music. The first professional shows I saw were a bus and truck production of Funny Girl starring Evalyn Baron and the Melody Top production of Carnival with Jean Pierre Aumont and Marisa Pavan.

The first Broadway show I saw was Crazy for You. The last Broadway show I saw was Grey Gardens, and next week I'm seeing Mamma Mia for the fifth time. I've made up for all those years with LOTS of theatre.

[The Boy From Ohio]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 11:02pm

Christmas Carol when I was 6-7ish. First musical was at some crappy community theater that I can't remember the show. I just have bad memories of dancing and singing.