The First Play You Ever Saw?
The First Play You Ever Saw?
MarkRascati
Broadway Star Joined: 5/24/06
#1The First Play You Ever Saw?
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?
#2re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
Posted: 6/3/07 at 3:09pm
A Christmas Carol, when I was 8. If that counts. 
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#2re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
Posted: 6/3/07 at 3:11pmi think mine was "the wizard of oz", when i was about 2 or 3. and i still remember it.
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gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#4re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
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.
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#5re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
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.
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Updated On: 6/3/07 at 03:24 PM
#6re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
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.
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jg4892
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/06
#8re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
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
#9re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
Posted: 6/3/07 at 3:42pm
the first Broadway play i saw was JULIUS CAESAR.
it was also the last.
sad, huh?
My 2007/2008 Season:
Grey Gardens (7/5)
110 in the Shade (7/6)
Mary Poppins (7/7)
Xanadu (7/7)
Deuce (7/8)
Spamalot (7/8)
Jersey Boys (8/25)
The Year of Magical Thinking (8/25)
Mauritius (11/2)
Young Frankenstein (11/3)
Rock 'N' Roll (11/3)
Pygmalion (11/4)
Mauritius (11/10)
Mauritius (11/21) Mauritius (11/21)
Sunday in the Park with George (3/6)
South Pacific (3/7)
Gypsy (3/8)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (3/9)
#10re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
Posted: 6/3/07 at 5:08pmThe first Broadway play I ever saw was The Sunshine Boys with Tony Randall and Jack Klugman in 1998.
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
#11re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
Posted: 6/3/07 at 5:31pmThe first straight play I saw on Broadway was the HAMLET revival with Ralph Fiennes in 1995.
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Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#12re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
Posted: 6/3/07 at 5:33pmEither The Goat or Hedda with Kate Burton.
MarkRascati
Broadway Star Joined: 5/24/06
#13re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
Posted: 6/3/07 at 8:57pmThe first Broadway show I saw was Hairspray
#14re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
Posted: 6/3/07 at 8:58pmThe first Broadway show I saw was Noises Off with Patti. Amazing night!
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#15re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
Posted: 6/3/07 at 9:33pmThe first straight play I saw on Broadway was The Pillowman.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#16re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
Posted: 6/3/07 at 9:35pmHamlet at the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival when I was about ten. I was hooked.
#17re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
Posted: 6/3/07 at 9:37pmI 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).
#18re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
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.
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#19re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
Posted: 6/3/07 at 9:42pmI 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
Chorus Member Joined: 5/12/06
#20re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
Posted: 6/3/07 at 9:55pm
First Broadway musical- Man of La Mancha 1972
First Broadway drama - Equus 1977
#21re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
Posted: 6/3/07 at 10:01pm
Play- Twelve Angry Men(revival)
Musical-Peter Pan (1999,revival)
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#22re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
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)
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Updated On: 6/3/07 at 10:06 PM
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#23re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
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.
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#24re: The First Play You Ever Saw?
Posted: 6/3/07 at 11:02pmChristmas 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.
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