The most times you've ever seen a show- Page 4

[sally1112]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:43pm

Rent, 7 wonderful times, 4 on Broadway, 3 on tour!

[AndAllThatJazz22]

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)

[Soliantu]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:47pm

I'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. :)

[Opera Guy]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:58pm

Passing 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!

[eatlasagna]

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...

[AndAllThatJazz22]

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

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:17pm

When 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.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:26pm

Forget her. what about Joel?

[lstbutifulgrl2]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:27pm

the 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.

[lindatnyc2]

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

[i_love_megan]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:44pm

I am just at 5 for Wicked but am proud to say thats broadway, tour, and london!

[Coraline]

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

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 3:57pm

i 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

[TheatreDork2]

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.
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[jeffmiele]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 4:15pm

spring awakening, 6 broadway 1 philly
beauty and the beast 5 times

[Marianne2]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 4:29pm

Spamalot-Technically 4. Not saying how. :)
Xanadu-2
In the Heights-2

[axelsrose]

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?

[bundy5000]

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

[BwayTday]

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...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 5:15pm

I 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.

[Lumen2]

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.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 9:16pm

I've seen The Phantom of the Opera seven times...soon to be eight.

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 9:20pm

Somehow I ended up seeing Spring Awakening 38 times. 35 on Broadway, 3 on tour.

[Dollypop]

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

[Coraline]

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.