The Shows You Saw This Year: — Page 2

Speech and Debate (I can't believe that was this year.)
In the Heights
Is He Dead?
[title of show]
The 39 Steps
Gypsy
Forbidden Broadway
Shrek

Wow, I thought it would be more...
Speech and Debate was probably one of the best things I have ever seen. Although I actually enjoyed everything on the list.

Young Frankenstein
Spamalot
Sunday in the Park (twice)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
39 Steps
Gypsy
Rent
Mary Poppins
Hairspray
Boeing Boeing
Nero (Reading at Vassar)
Death of a Salesman (Arena Stage)
The Occupant (Off Broadway)
The Visit (Signature in Arlington)
The Happy Time (Signature in Arlington)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Signature in Arlington)
[title of show]
A Chorus Line
Bash'd (Off Broadway)
Tale of Two Cities (twice)
Equus
A Man for All Seasons
13
Pal Joey
Billy Elliot
White Christmas
and Shrek next week

Updated On: 12/26/08 at 11:39 AM

1/8 Die Mommy Die
3/8 In the Heights
3/12 Jersey Boys
3/29 Argonautica (Princeton McCarters Theatre)
4/9 South Pacific
4/12 A Catered Affair
4/20 The New Century
5/15 Dear World (Pennsy's Bristol Riverside Theatre)
6/18 Gypsy
7/15 (title of show)
8/26 Bernadette Peters (Philadelphia)
9/20 Equus
9/21 Saltimbanco-Cirque du Soleil
10/12Herringbone-BD Wong (Princeton McCarters Theatre)

I saw 50 this year. Most I have ever seen.

1. Curtains- January 12, 8 pm
2. Spring Awakening- January 19, 2 pm
3. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee- January 20, 7:30 pm [Closing Night
4. Spring Awakening- February 3, 2 pm
5. In The Heights- February 14, 8 pm [First Preview]
6. Legally Blonde- February 15, 8 pm
7. Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit (Tour)- February 23, 8 pm [Ridgefield, CT]
8. Spring Awakening- March 8, 2 pm
9. Young Frankenstein- March 22, 8 pm
10. Gypsy- March 30, 3 pm
11. Spring Awakening- April 11, 8 pm
12. Spring Awakening- April 26, 2 pm
13. Spring Awakening- May 18, 7 pm [Groff and Michele's final performance]
14. Xanadu- May 31, 2 pm
15. Gypsy- May 31, 8 pm
16. Spring Awakening- June 16, 8 pm
17. Xanadu- June 17, 7 pm
18. The Wedding Singer (Tour)- June 21, 2 pm [Hartford, CT]
19. Curtains- June 29, 3 pm [Closing Night]
20. Wicked- July 1, 7 pm
21. In The Heights- July 15, 8 pm
22. Spring Awakening- July 19, 2 pm
23. [title of show]- July 19, 8 pm
24. A Catered Affair- July 23, 2 pm
25. Legally Blonde- July 23, 8 pm
26. Gypsy- August 2, 2 pm
27. Spring Awakening- August 2, 8 pm
28. [title of show]- August 9, 8 pm
29. Xanadu- August 17, 3 pm
30. A Chorus Line- August 17, 6:30 pm [Closing Night]
31. Spring Awakening- September 13, 2 pm
32. 13- September 13, 8 pm [Invited Dress Rehearsal]
33. The 39 Steps- September 21, 3 pm
34. Xanadu- September 27, 2 pm
35. Hairspray- October 10, 8 pm
36. Billy Elliot- October 11, 2 pm
37. Boeing-Boeing- October 11, 8 pm
38. 13- October 19, 2 pm
39. Legally Blonde- October 19, 7 pm [Closing Night]
40. Billy Elliot- November 1, 8 pm
41. Spring Awakening- November 3, 8 pm
42. Spring Awakening- November 16, 2 pm
43. In The Heights- November 22, 2 pm
44. 13- November 22, 8 pm
45. Spring Awakening- November 29, 8 pm
46. Legally Blonde (Tour)- December 13, 2 pm [Hartford, CT]
47. Spring Awakening- December 14, 2 pm
48. Billy Elliot- December 21, 3 pm
49. Shrek- December 23, 7 pm
50. White Christmas- December 24, 2 pm

Updated On: 12/26/08 at 01:03 PM

All in London unless otherwise stated. (You'll NEVER GUESS when I moved away from Bath! XD)

Dealer's Choice
La Cage aux Folles
Doubt
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby parts 1&2
Much Ado About Nothing
Absurd Person Singular
Othello
Shadowlands
War Horse
The Vortex (Bath)
Visiting Mr Green (Bath)
The Deep Blue Sea (Bath)
Merrily We Roll Along (Newbury)
Uncle Vanya (Bath)
The Nutcracker (Bath)
Cinderella (Bath)
Potted Potter (Bath)
A Trip To Scarborough (Bath)
Hamlet (Bath)
Journey's End (Bath)
War and Peace parts 1&2 (Bath)
Breakfast With Mugabe (Bath)
And Then There Were None (Bath)
The Clean House (Bath)
Sleuth (Bath)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Bath)
The Sea
God of Carnage
She Stoops to Conquer (Bath)
Contains Violence
Major Barbara
The Lover/The Collection
Equus (Bath)
Gone with the Wind
Fram
Single Spies (High Wycombe)
Fat Pig
Richard II
Henry IV parts 1&2
Henry V
Henry VI parts 1, 2, &3
Richard III
The Revenger's Tragedy
Troilus and Cressida
The Lord of the Rings
Betwixt
Candide
Marguerite
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Slight Ache
Never So Good
Black Watch
Timon of Athens
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester)
The Music Man (Chichester)
Romeo and Juliet
Zorro
Sunset Boulevard (Newbury)
Hamlet
The Woman in Black
...some trace of her
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Love's Labour's Lost (Stratford-upon-Avon)
Hamlet (Stratford-upon-Avon)
La Cage aux Folles
Ivanov
August: Osage County
War Horse
Hamlet
No Man's Land
Imagine This

If you think I've seen too much Shakespeare this year, you would be right. For the remainder of the year, such as it is, I'll be visiting Hamlet one last time then rounding off 2008 with Twelfth Night. It's a wonder I'm not talking in iambic pentameter these days.

(And if you were wondering, I'm really good at getting discounts and I don't spend much money on anything else. :P)

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RENT
Mary Poppins
A Chorus line
Legally Blonde (4 times)
13
Spring Awakening

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Gypsy x4
All My Sons
Speed-the-Plow
Next to Normal
Wicked x3
Xanadu
Spring Awakening
Avenue Q
Young Frankenstein
Mary Poppins
Shrek

All Shows in Seattle Area unless otherwise noted.

(not in any order except what I thought of first off the top of my head)

Shrek (5th Avenue Theatre, World Premiere) 5 times and 3 dress rehearsals
The Drowsy Chaperone (5th Avenue Theatre, National Tour)
Spring Awakening (The Paramount Theatre, National Tour)
Mamma Mia (The Paramount Theatre, National Tour)
The Crucible (Bellarmine Prep High School)
Saint Heaven (Village Theatre)
Cabaret (5th Avenue Theatre) 2 times
Mame (5th Avenue Theatre) 2 times
Cabaret (Lyric Theatre, London UK)
Romeo and Juliet (Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford UK)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Adelphi Theatre, London UK)
The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre, London UK)
Les Miserables (Queens Theatre, London UK with Drew Sarich!)
Arabian Nights (The Overlake School)
Jersey Boys (5th Avenue Theatre, National Tour)
Little Shop of Horrors (Studio East)
The Secret Garden (Village Theatre KIDSTAGE Summer Stock)
Bat Boy: the Musical (Second Story Rep)
Same Time Next Year (Second Story Rep)
Greater Tuna (Second Story Rep)
Born Yesterday (Second Story Rep)
Godspell (Second Story Rep Teen Program)
Oz (Redmond Junior High)
Once Upon a Mattress (Bethel High School)
Aladdin, Jr (East Ridge Elementary) 2 times
Children of Eden (Edmonds HS Resource Center MT 1)
No Hole Holiday (Second Story Rep SPROUTS)

also in the next four days:
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (5th Avenue Theatre)-saturday
New Voices 6 (Seattle Rep)-monday
The Nutcracker (Pacific Northwest Ballet)-sunday

40 performances (plus the other ballet, operas, concets, etc that I'm not including and the plays that I'm forgetting)

Hopefully more next year but not bad for busy and broke 16 year old :)

Updated On: 12/26/08 at 04:23 PM

Shows in bold are the shows I've seen more than once, which is ridiculous, I know. 2009 will probably be 1/8 of 2008.

Spring Awakening, Jan 2
Xanadu, Jan 3
Jersey Boys, Jan 10
A Chorus Line, Jan 11
The Fantasticks, Jan 18
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Jan 20
Sunday in the Park with George, Jan 25
August: Osage County, Jan 29

August: Osage County, Feb 2
Avenue Q, Feb 4
Speech and Debate, Feb 7
A Chorus Line, Feb 12
In The Heights, Feb 15
Is He Dead?, Feb 20
Speech and Debate, Feb 21
The Seafarer, Feb 23

Passing Strange, March 2
Chicago, March 3
The 39 Steps, March 6
Passing Strange, March 7
Next To Normal, March 8
August: Osage County, March 20
Passing Strange, March 22
The Homecoming, March 27
The Seafarer, March 30

Rent, April 4
A Chorus Line, April 6
The Four of Us, April 12
Les Liasons Dangereuses, April 12
Gypsy, April 15
From Up Here, April 17
Adding Machine, April 18
Boeing Boeing, April 19
Gypsy, April 22
Boeing Boeing, April 24
Top Girls, April 25,
South Pacific, April 26

Glory Days, May 1
August: Osage County, May 4
The Lion King, May 8
Passing Strange, May 13
Good Boys and True, May 22
Saved, May 24
Passing Strange, May 25
Cry-Baby, May 27
The New Century, May 29
Reasons To Be Pretty, May 31

From Up Here, June 7
The 39 Steps, June 13
Sunday in the Park with George, June 17
November, June 24
Rafta Rafta, June 26
Top Girls, June 28
Curtains, June 28

The Little Mermaid, July 2
Passing Strange, July 4
Title Of Show, July 5
Xanadu, July 8
Jersey Boys, July 15
Young Frankenstein, July 16
Passing Strange, July 18
Passing Strange, July 20
A Catered Affair, July 24
The Marriage of Bette and Boo, July 26
In The Heights, July 29

Hair, Aug 6
Legally Blonde, Aug 8
Thurgood, Aug 17
Boeing Boeing, Aug 28
Bashd, Aug 29

Title Of Show, Sept 4
The Marvelous Wonderettes, Sept 7
Cirque Du Soleil Kooza, Sept 12
A Chorus Line (Tour), Sept 12
Cirque Du Soleil Saltimbanco, Sept 18
The Seagull, Sept 21
13, Sept 26
Three Changes, Sept 27

Fifty Words, Oct 3
Equus, Oct 9
Title Of Show, Oct 10
August: Osage County, Oct 12
Gypsy, Oct 17
The Language of Trees, Oct 19
Fifty Words, Oct 24
Diving the Estate, Oct 29

A Tale of Two Cities, Nov 1
Shrek the Musical, Nov 13

Mouth to Mouth, December 6
PalJoey, December 22
Speed-The-Plow, December 27
What's That Smell, December 27

Best shows I've seen this year: Passing Strange, Speech & Debate, August: Osage County, Sunday in the Park with George, Boeing Boeing, From Up Here, Fifty Words

Updated On: 12/27/08 at 06:24 PM

Broadway:
Xanadu
August: Osage County (x2)
In the Heights (x2)
The Homecoming
Passing Strange (x2)
Young Frankenstein
Spamalot
[title of show]
Gypsy
South Pacific
Boeing Boeing
The 39 Steps
Spring Awakening
Hairspray
Dividing the Estate
All My Sons
Shrek
Equus

Off-Broadway:
Fuerzabruta
Adding Machine
Hair in Central Park
Road Show
Back Back Back

Touring:
Sweeney Todd (Equity John Doyle Production)
The Wizard of Oz (NETworks Touring Production)
Annie (NETworks Touring Production)

Regional:
Altar Boyz (Actors Playhouse in Coral Gables, FL)
Footloose (Actors Playhouse)
Thumbs (Actors Playhouse)
1776 (Actors Playhouse)
A Christmas Carol (Actors Playhouse)
The Little Dog Laughed (Gablestage in Coral Gables, FL)
Blackbird (Gablestage)
The Accomplices (Gablestage)
In Common Hours (Gablestage)
Shining City (Gablestage)
Betrayed (Gablestage)
November (Gablestage)
As You Like It (New Theatre in Coral Gables, FL)
Fill Our Mouths (New Theatre)
Tony 'n Tina's Wedding (Broward Center for the Performing Arts)
Summer Shorts (City Theatre in Miami, FL)

University:
Guys and Dolls (University of Miami)
Cabaret (University of Miami)

47. Wow. And I think I'm missing some.

A very good theatre-going year for me.

I won't even try to rank them or pick a top ten, that would just be dumb- and incredibly difficult.

Updated On: 12/31/08 at 11:35 PM

Legally Blonde 2x (OBC and then Haven Burton as Elle Woods)
Altar Boyz
My First Time
Cry Baby 10x
Passing Strange
N2N
Saved 2x
Young Frankenstein
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Revival
Come Back, Little Sheba Revival
August: Osage County
Xanadu 16x (Anika Larsen as Kira/Clio, and numerous times with Curtis' understudy)
The Seagull (Alan Cumming at CSC)
The Color Purple
Spring Awakening
In the Heights
Gypsy
[TOS]
The Homecoming
The Seafarer
Adding Machine
A Chorus Line
Wicked
Macbeth
The Country Girl
Glory Days


And quite a lot more.

Xanadu
Mary Poppins
Wicked
Altar Boyz (New World Stages)
Gypsy
Billy Elliott
Equus
South Pacific
Spring Awakening
August: Osage County
A Tale of Two Cities
[title of show] closing performance

Tours
Avenue Q
Mama Mia
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels


Regional
33 Variations
Altar Boyz
Jerry Springer: The Opera
Pirates of Penzanse (sp?)

Updated On: 12/27/08 at 08:52 AM

1/18- Shear Madness (DC)
3/9- RENT (tour)
3/27- Jersey Boys (Chicago)
3/28- Wicked (Chicago)
4/5- In The Heights mat
4/5- Wicked eve
4/6- Legally Blonde mat
4/6- RENT eve
4/20- Hairspray (tour)
5/18- Spring Awakening
5/31- RENT
6/14- Wicked
6/29- RENT (tour)
7/1- Mamma Mia! (tour)
7/5- Wicked mat
7/5- Young Frankenstien eve
7/6- November mat
7/6-RENT eve
7/13-Legally Blonde
7/19- In The Heights mat
7/19- August:Osage County eve
7/20- [title of show]
8/3- RENT
8/20- Shear Madness (DC)
9/5- RENT
9/6- RENT mat
9/6- RENT eve
10/5- Broadway: Three Generations (Girl Crazy, Bye Bye Birdy, Side Show) DC
10/9- Legally Blonde (tour)
10/21- Blue Man Group
10/22- Hairspray
11/1- In The Heights mat
11/1- Wicked eve
11/2- Spring Awakening
11/28- Altar Boyz (DC)
11/29- Grey Gardens (DC)
12/14- A Chorus Line (tour)
12/17- West Side Story (DC tryout)
12/26- Wicked
12/28- Shear Madness
12/30- Next To Normal (Arena Stages)
12/31- Legally Blonde (Tour)

Not bad for a 13 year old. And before you make fun of me, yes, I am a Wicked/RENT fangirl. Shut up.