The Show That Did You In- Page 2

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:46pm

Les Miserables, I was 4. I didn't really understand the plot, but my parents would pop in the 10th Anniversary tape and I would just sit there and watch it over and over and over. I LOVED Enjolras, I, for some reason, thought he was a prince, and when they turn the barricade around and they show that he's died, I started crying and asked "Why did they kill the prince?" We bought the cast recording and would listen to it in the car all the time. By the age of 6 I knew most of the lyrics. Well, that's the story, complete with anecdotes!

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:50pm

Bye Bye Birdie. To this day, I get angry whenever someone mocks this lovely show that made me fall in love with Musical Theatre.

[Joshua488]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:54pm

The Phantom of the Opera.

My parents saw the show in 1988 with Michael Crawford and Patti Cohenour and purchased the cassette. My father, who was big into sports but also into music and had a wonderful voice, listened to the cassette ALL THE TIME. He was absolutely captivated by it and, namely, Michael Crawford. I grew up hearing it around the house, not knowing what it was until I was older. I knew it was something called "The Phantom of the Opera" but I didn't know it was a Broadway show and I didn't know what it was about until I got older.

Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:54pm

Grease. I was 13.

[rentforthesoul]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:55pm

Lol Rent here also... but it was just in October... lol... so not really that long ago... The only reason I got into musicals though is because I randomly chose to try out for my high school's production of Seussical the Musical and got a pretty good part for being a first year member... I LOVED acting and singing on stage and ever since then I gobble up any CAST recordings I can get a hold of! I imagine myself singing those songs in front of thousands of people! I never knew that there were musicals like "Rent" and "POTO"... I only thought of "The Sound of Music" and "Westside Story"... shows such as those.... slower music

[elvenprincess971]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:56pm

Phantom Of The Opera when I was 3. Officially obsessed ever since

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 10:12pm

Rent, on my 16th birthday. It was my first Broadway show, and it got me hooked.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 10:13pm

My friend played "Castle on the Cloud" from Les Mis over the phone for me when we were in Daisy scouts...

[JarNerdAV]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 10:28pm

I've been hooked on Broadway long before I ever got to Broadway. The first "adult" record album (yes record) I bought was Barbra Streisand's soundtrack to the film "Funny Lady" when I was five right after having been taken to see the movie by my unsuspecting parents (they had no idea the musical monster they were creating). Not a Broadway show, I know, but it certainly planted the first seed and I was obsessed with musicals from that day forward. The first show I remember seeing was "Once Upon a Mattress" with Carol Burnett on TV and that cemented the obsession. The first live "professional" production was "The Sound of Music" at 7 and then I was auditioning for children's theatre from then on (I wanted so to be one of the Von Trapp children I could taste it). The first actual Broadway show I saw was many years later when I was 27--"Kiss of the Spider Woman" with Maria Conchita Alonza, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Howard McGillin. I loved it because it was my first even if I was old enough by then to know that it would have been better with Chita or even Vanessa.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 10:33pm

I fell inlove with the movie Grease when I was younger Even though that wasn't the first show I saw on broadway, that was the first show that I knew all the words to, and had made me want to see different shows.

[Holly Therese]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 10:40pm

My mom had us watching musicals since birth, and my first show was Beauty and the Beast. I liked it a lot but I wasn't hooked on theater until I saw Joseph when I was nine. I haven't looked back since.

[Just_John]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 10:44pm

BIG

[timote316]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 10:50pm

My junior year of high school, my choir did a medley of Andrew Lloyd Webber songs, which I really enjoyed. A short while later, an area high school put on an excellent production of Joseph, which I saw because of the medley... I was hooked ever since. Within the next year, I made plans to see The Producers on Broadway, and I've been a geek since.

[TheaterAddict7652]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:16pm

Wicked. I saw it over a year and a half ago. The day after I got out of school for winter break, my mom and I woke up early to take a train to NYC for the weekend. I saw Wicked that night, and a matinee of The Producers the next day. When I came home Sunday night, I wanted to find out as much as I could about musical theater, Broadway, the Tonys, etc. I spent the next week spending hours on the computer seaching the Tony Award database on their official website, learning the winner of every category since the Tonys have been created.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:17pm

I read this as "Shows That You Did It In."

42nd Street was my first show, and I've been hooked since.

[Gingersnap2]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:22pm

I grew up seeing very good touring productions of shows like "Peter Pan," "Annie," "Camelot," "Brigadoon," etc. But it wasn't until I saw the first national tour of "Les Miserables" that I really fell for musicals. Then "The Phantom of the Opera" actually on Broadway.

[wackjack132]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:31pm

Well, techincaly my first show was either The Phantom (Which I only like a little I swear!) or Les Mis (Which I did and still love, but didnt get me hooked).

But the first show I saw that I really remember loving was The Lion King. I was 7 or 8 and when all the giraffes and characters camed out during The Circle of Life and all those voices hit me...I started to cry a little :').

But what got me absolutely hooked was a mixture of Little Shops of Horror and RENT. I saw the OBC of Little Shops of Horrors and realized that that was what I HAD to do, but I was only listening to that soundtrack and 2 more (Lion King and Les Mis). Then came RENT, the gateway show. I'll always remember this...

We were on a bus ride back from Washington for school, and we were trading iPods. Well this guy had Seasons of Love on it and I must have listened to it 100 times on that bus. The minute I got home I got the OBC, listened to it through and through twice and cried both times. And the rest is history lol.

[Alex LaVelle]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:31pm

Ragtime. Then shortly after that, I worked on a production of Into the Woods, which just solidified it what Ragtime had started.

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:35pm

I'm not quite sure.

The 42nd Street revival just had me in awe of all that dancing.

It wasn't until I first saw the video of Sweeney that I knew I was going to be an actor. How could you not want to do THAT?

[ThreePennyJennyxo]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:36pm

Cats, when I was 5 years old. It made me love the theater.After I saw the show i signed up for dance and acting lessions, to this day ive been a dancer for 12 years and continuing and still acting and taking voice lessions, if it wasnt for CATS i wouldnt of loved Broadway

[SoulMadeOfSong]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:08am

7th grade, I saw Beauty and the Beast. I had loved to act and sing all my life- and seeing a broadway show for the first time was a dream. I remember being in such awe. The costumes, the talent, the effects... it was the first time I ever looked at a stage and went 'I need to do that for the rest of my life.'

That planted the seed. The next month I saw Les Miserables, and was so taken by the music and the story that I honestly began to shake. The character Fantine, for some reason, effected me to no end. I cried from the moment she died to the final curtain. I haven't been the same since.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:10am

I was young, and my sister was younger. She danced to "Memory" from CATS for her dance recital, and I immediately went out and purchased the cast recording. I became obsessed with it, and that was it for me.

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:17am

I've always liked musicals, and my interest in them gradually increased as I got older and became exposed to more material. There was no specific show that "did me in".

That being said, my first Broadway show was Beauty and the Beast, at age 5.
Chicago was the first show I ever fell completely in love with, I think.
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[dancnqn5]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:18am

Peter Pan. I saw it with Cathy Rigby when I was in 1st grade, but the version that really did me in was the Mary Martin television version. My parents had taped it off of tv when NBC aired it as part of an anniversary special. I watched it so much I basically disinegrated the tape (luckily I was able to purchase it when they released it on VHS). I would sing and dance along with it all the time. For that reason, it is a show I could do forever (and I've already done it twice). I'll never give up hope of getting to play Tiger Lilly!

[Marguerite Chauvelin]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 2:02am

When I was 12, my first Broadway show was Beauty and the Beast. I got the cast recording, then I got the recording to Thoroughly Modern Millie, then Aida. It just escalated from there.