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The most times you've ever seen a show
#50re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 10:20am
My Billy Elliot count is at 33 (1 in London, 32 on Broadway, but I know of at least one person who has me beat, lol.)
Second runner up is The Little Mermaid at 5 (that one is NOT on purpose, people just kept asking me to go with them....)
I think I'm at 4 for Rent, Wicked and Les Miserables between LA and NYC....
3x each for Scarlet Pimpernel, Spelling Bee, and Phantom
Saw rehearsals and every single preview of Drowsy Chaperone in LA and then some, but I was working on the show.
jagfkb
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/29/07
#51re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 10:55amIncluding the MTV telecasts and the out of town tryout, I've seen Legally Blonde 6 times. Including the three performances of Hair I teched at the Skyline Theatre Company and the two times I'm seeing it on Broadway, by the end of the year I will have seen Hair 6 times. With the five productions of Man of La Mancha I've seen, I've seen that show 5 times andi ncluding one community theatre production, I've seen Beauty & the Beast 5 times. I also will have seen The Drowsy Chaperone, Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, The Will Rogers Follies (at the Surflight Theatre of Beach Haven), They're Playing Our Song (at the Skyline Theatre Company of Bergen County, New Jersey), and High School Musical (Not by chocie for the later) 4 times. Next year will also mark myself seeing Mary Poppins a fifth, and possibly sixth, time on Broadway. By the end of the year I will have seen The Producers (1 Community, 2 Broadway), Young Frankenstein, The Little Mermaid, 9 to 5, Shrek, 1776(2 Community, 1 Regional), A Christmas Carol (1 Regional, 2 Madison Square Garden), Into the Woods (2 Broadway, 1 Community), Monty Python's Spamalot, and Gypsy (2 Bernadette, 1 Patti) 3 times. By the end of this year, I will have seen The Lion King, Urinetown (1 Tour (San Francisco) 1 Community), Les Miserables (1 Broadway (Original) 1 Community), Bye Bye Birdie (1 Community, 1 Broadway), Avenue Q, Little Shop of Horrors, Hairspray, Seussical (1 Broadway, 1 Community), Next to Normal, Ragtime (1 Broadway, 1 Touring), West Side Story, Billy Elliot, Wonderful Town, Nunsense (2 Community), Peter Pan (1 Broadway, 1 Touring), Dr Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas, In the Heights, Curtains, A Tale of Two Cities, Spring Awakening, and Tarzan twice. Everything else I've only seen once.
#52re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:00amWicked 5 times (2 on Broadway, 3 on Tour).
"It doesn't work when you lick it!"
#53re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:01am
On Broadway- Passing Strange 4x
Combination of Tour and Broadway- the Doyle Revival of Sweeney Todd 6x
#54re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:03amGrey Gardens-4 times.
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#55re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:23amI saw RENT 7 times. The closest second is The Lion King, which I've seen 3 times.
mina3
Stand-by Joined: 5/3/09
#56re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:35am
I think I'm at something like 7.5 for Wicked (all Broadway except one London, spread out over five years). I've only paid for it 5 times though, and only lottery prices. 
Rent - 5 (2 tours, 3 Broadway)
Next to Normal - 4 (3 at Second Stage, 1 on Broadway)
Twelfth Night - 4 (in the park)
Saved - 4
Wow, that's a really questionable representation of my taste in theatre - I swear I've seen more shows, many of them two or three times! If we count non-Broadway and non-tour productions, I don't even want to think about how many times I've seen Les Miz, Ragtime, and Secret Garden.
None of us are really in the big leagues yet though - I know there's an individual who has seen Wicked on Broadway over 150 times. I can't even imagine.
#57re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:38amWicked 12 and counting (Broadway, Chicago and Tour)
#58re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:45am
In the Heights - 19? (since February 200
A Chorus Line - 16
West Side Story - 9
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#59re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:50am
Little Mermaid- 7x
Spring Awakening- 4x
Rent- 3x (2 Broadway, 1 2009 tour)
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#60re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:57amGypsy with Patti LuPone---20 times!
#61re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:59am
Wicked (Chicago) - 8 times
Rent - 6 times (2 Broadway, 4 tour)
Xanadu (Chicago) - 4 times
The Drowsy Chaperone - 3 times (1 Broadway, 2 Tour)
-Jacob.
#62re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:07pm
I'm pretty sure it was just
Rent - 3
LB - 3
and then a bunch of shows at 2 outings...
I try to keep it limited so I can see as many different shows as I can.
#64re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:21pm
Marvelous Wonderettes - 8
Hairspray - 5
Legally Blonde - 3
Curtains - 2
Tale of Two Cities - 3 (once in Florida/twice on Broadway)
Drowsy Chaperone - 2
The Little Mermaid - 2
Les Miserables - 2 (once in Philly/once on Broadway)
9 to 5 - 2
Altar Boyz - 2 (once in New York/once in Bristol, PA)
I think I'm forgetting some. I'll have to look at my playbills when I get home.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
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#65re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:36pm
Legally Blonde- 4
HAIR Revival-3 and a quarter.
West Side Story Revival- 2
I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&.
"Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."
#66re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:37pm
Les Mis 8x (first tour)
LuPone Gypsy 5x
Phantom 4x
"Like the good Lord says . . . Ya gotta take the rough with the smooth, Baby!" Madame Rose
#67re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:39pmDid the people who are citing .25 & .5 arrive late or leave early?
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#68re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:41pmA Chorus Line revival (10 times on Broadway)
WestVillage
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/05
#69re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:48pm
A Chorus Line (original run): 122 times on Broadway between 1975 and 1990 (not including national/interntional tours and regional productions).
#70re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:52pm
Spring Awakening-3 times
Rent, Les Miserables, LuPone Gypsy, Legally Blonde, The Lion King-2 times
And I just bought tickets to see Next to Normal again.
Like others have mentioned, I usually avoid seeing shows too many times (unless its a show I'm REALLY into) so that I can see as many different shows as possible.
lstbutifulgrl2
Broadway Star Joined: 10/10/07
#71re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:52pm
um let's see...
RENT i'm close to 200, including broadway and tour
RoA 30+
In the Heights 6 or 7
next to normal 5 on broadway, 2 in DC, 10 (i think) at 2ST
Altar Boyz 4
Les Miz 6
Miss Saigon 3
Story of My Life 8
Wicked 3
"Sometimes on the strip, the dreams you come in with, ain't the dreams you leave with" ~Rock of Ages
"I'm a butterfly, trivial and small, and in the greater scheme of things, I don't mean much at all." ~The Story of My Life
"Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss." ~Rent
Updated On: 7/21/09 at 12:52 PM
"I'm a butterfly, trivial and small, and in the greater scheme of things, I don't mean much at all." ~The Story of My Life
"Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss." ~Rent
TheatreDork2
Leading Actor Joined: 7/21/09
#72re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:56pmCats & Hairspray- Twice on tour
Cape Twirl of Doom
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#73re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:57pm
None of us are really in the big leagues yet though - I know there's an individual who has seen Wicked on Broadway over 150 times. I can't even imagine.
Wasn't there someone who saw SPRING AWAKENING more than 300 times on Broadway? I remember some kind of story about her, like she collected all her tickets in a bag or something?
"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"
#74re: The most times you've ever seen a show
Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:03pm
Wicked- 4 times (all tour)
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Updated On: 7/21/09 at 01:03 PM
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