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The most times you've ever seen a show
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#75
Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:43pmRent, 7 wonderful times, 4 on Broadway, 3 on tour!
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#76
Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:45pm
CSonBroadway:
Just out of curiosity, how have you seen Hair a quarter of a time. (Not trying to be snarky, just curious)
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
Leading Actor Joined: 11/10/06
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#77
Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:47pmI'm gonna say only like 5? I usually try to branch out and see as many different shows as I can, rather than seeing the same ones over and over, for example I have a friend who has seen Gypsy 35 times on Broadway, but at the same time I've seen every show that has opened over the last 6 years, and he's seen only a few. Both ways are fine though, it depends on what you lovee, I usually see each show I like two times at least though. :)
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#78
Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:58pmPassing Strange: 9 times on Broadway (wish I had known about it when it was at the Public), plus the CD release party at Joe's Pub--one of the funnest nights ever!
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#79
Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:59pm
wasn't there a guy who saw CATS on broadway every sunday for the entire run of the production?
and wasn't there also a guy that saw RENT every week or tried to see it every week?
i can't remember where i heard these stories... i think the news or something when the shows closed...
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#80
Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:01pm
"and wasn't there also a guy that saw RENT every week or tried to see it every week?"
Yeah, coolkid
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#81
Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:17pmWhen I saw RENT in early 2007, there was a woman there who said she had seen it over 200 times on Broadway. When I saw the show again, seven months later, she was there. I don't even want to think about how many times she must have seen it in its final months.
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#82
Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:26pmForget her. what about Joel?
Broadway Star Joined: 10/10/07
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#83
Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:27pmthe guy who saw RENT almost 1200 times stopped seeing the show about 2 months or so prior to closing, he got banned from lotto. it was not coolkid.
"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
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#84
Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:41pm
Billy Elliot - 41X and counting :)
Rent - 10X excluding 1X tour w/Adam & Anthony
Boy From Oz - 7X
Hairspray - 4X
Mamma Mia - 4X
Mary Poppins - 4X (I have many young at heart friends!)
Many others 1-3X
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#85
Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:44pmI am just at 5 for Wicked but am proud to say thats broadway, tour, and london!
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#86
Posted: 7/21/09 at 3:05pm
I'm up to 7 for Wicked - 1 on Broadway, 4 in Chicago, and 2 in Detroit. Not always by choice, but because I'd always have a friend who wanted to see it for the first time, and they'd ask me to go with them. Can't say no!
Other than that, I just have a list of 2x shows
Hairspray
Avenue Q
August: Osage County
Mary Poppins
Lion King
I'd rather see a new show than see something multiple times
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#87
Posted: 7/21/09 at 3:57pmi must say... besides Miss Saigon... Les Miserables, Little Shop of Horrors and Into the Woods are the only shows that I'm willing to go see any production.. i don't care if it's regional show or a high school production... i think i've seen les mis about 7 or 8 times, Little Shop i've seen about 5 or 6 and Into the Woods 5 or 6... and if a production is ever playing nearby... i'll go... just because i love these shows
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#88
Posted: 7/21/09 at 4:04pm
wasn't there a guy who saw CATS on broadway every sunday for the entire run of the production?
Not about him, but does anyone know of Catanna? The ultimate Cats fan?
Her husband. 
Updated On: 7/21/09 at 04:04 PM
Broadway Star Joined: 11/6/07
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#89
Posted: 7/21/09 at 4:15pm
spring awakening, 6 broadway 1 philly
beauty and the beast 5 times
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#90
Posted: 7/21/09 at 4:29pm
Spamalot-Technically 4. Not saying how. :)
Xanadu-2
In the Heights-2
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#91
Posted: 7/21/09 at 4:36pm
Oh man, well I'm in Toronto so my numbers are skewed by the fact that there is way less choice.
Rent - 35 times, plus I've probably seen the second half only an additional 15 or so times.
Ragtime - 10
Sunset Boulevard - 10
I saw Napoleon a bunch of times too - did that ever open in NYC?
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#92
Posted: 7/21/09 at 4:39pm
5x - Billy Elliot (Broadway)
2x- Mamma Mia
2x- Hair
2x- 9 to 5
2x- Gypsy (Lupone)
2x- Blithe Spirit
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
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re: The most times you've ever seen a show#93
Posted: 7/21/09 at 5:10pm
Wicked-10x L.A. (I know, I know)
at one of those performances the people in front of us said they saw it 70x.
and at another one of those performances I heard there was this guy who entered the lottery and won 33 times.
gotta love those crazy wicked fans...
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#94
Posted: 7/21/09 at 5:15pmI actually lost count, though I have what I think is a pretty good estimate. It was Rent, over the course of six years, and roughly twenty-seven.
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#95
Posted: 7/21/09 at 5:19pm
Um...2. For Rent. And only because I wanted to see Adam and Anthony live in it. But once it started, the memories flooded back and I was very bored for the rest of the night. Not because I didn't enjoy it, but because it was so over-directed at that point I recalled every little step they took. It was frustrating, so now I usually limit how many times I see a show.
But do other productions count? Because I've seen Hair almost 3 times, but each production was just a tiny bit different from the last. I just can't imagine sitting through the same show so many times, no matter how much you love it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#96
Posted: 7/21/09 at 9:16pmI've seen The Phantom of the Opera seven times...soon to be eight.
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#97
Posted: 7/21/09 at 9:20pmSomehow I ended up seeing Spring Awakening 38 times. 35 on Broadway, 3 on tour.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#98
Posted: 7/21/09 at 9:30pm
GYPSY (Lansbury)---10 times
GYPSY (Lupone)----12 times
<--------------- (original production, Channing, Rogers, Raye, Grable, Bailey, Diller, Osterwald, Merman) 74 times
re: The most times you've ever seen a show#99
Posted: 7/21/09 at 9:32pm
" Billy Elliot - 41X and counting :) "
WOW! That costs a lot of $$$ - I can't imagine how one affords to see that show so many times.
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