Time machine

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Time machine

Posted: 12/20/05 at 1:27pm

I've often wondered... Pretend you have a time machine. You can see any Broadway show you want on opening night, up to 80 years ago. You can only pick one. What do you pick and why? Oh and what would you wear to fit in with that period? (Ha ha)

#2

re: Time machine

Posted: 12/20/05 at 1:55pm

Bring Back Birdie in 1981. I would wear something really hot so all the gay guys in the audience would notice me.

#3

re: Time machine

Posted: 12/20/05 at 1:58pm

why would you want all the hot gay guys to notice you unless....oh my gosh, are you gay? does that mean there are homos on this message board???? does that mean that fags like broadway musicals? does that mean that broadway is filled with gay guys???????

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#4

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Posted: 12/20/05 at 2:01pm

honey, i like the show Bring Back Birdie...that should be an obvious clue to my sexual preferences

#5

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Posted: 12/20/05 at 2:05pm

dude, i was joking - yeah it's pretty obvious.
i thought "bring back birdie" was a big old flop, is the music any good - better, different than the original "birdie"?

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#6

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Posted: 12/20/05 at 2:06pm

"Gypsy" or "West Side Story".

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#7

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Posted: 12/20/05 at 2:19pm

My Fair Lady, without question...just because it's my favorite show and had a definitive cast.

#8

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Posted: 12/20/05 at 4:29pm

yes, it is a huge flop, but i LOVE the music. Chita's three big dance numbers are fabulous...much better than "Spanish Rose" from Bye Bye Birdie. Get the CD (if you can find it) and listen to "I Like What I Do," "A Man Worth Fightin' For," and "Well I'm Not."

#9

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Posted: 12/20/05 at 4:33pm

Showboat

#10

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Posted: 12/20/05 at 6:45pm

Probably RENT.

#11

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Posted: 12/20/05 at 7:02pm

I would like to see the Original Cast of Les Miserables so I could meet Colm Wilkinson and Michael Maguire. I could also meet Terrence Mann (again). The show itself is one of my favorite shows I have not seen yet (but I will see it on tour this year). I don't know if I would want to wear anything that makes me blend in with the eighties, I'd have to tease my hair a lot.

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Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)

#12

re: Time machine

Posted: 12/20/05 at 7:02pm

I would like to see the Original Cast of Les Miserables so I could meet Colm Wilkinson and Michael Maguire. I could also meet Terrence Mann (again). The show itself is one of my favorite shows I have not seen yet (but I will see it on tour this year). I don't know if I would want to wear anything that makes me blend in with the eighties, I'd have to tease my hair a lot.

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If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....

Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)

#13

re: Time machine

Posted: 12/20/05 at 7:06pm

Either Company's opening night just because I think it's the first time people realized who Sondheim really is, or opening night of Dreamgirls just to watch Jenniffer Holliday doing And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going, or the opening night of Rent either on Broadway or the closing night off-Broadway I can only imagine how much energy those people had on stage.

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#14

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Posted: 12/20/05 at 7:23pm

the original cast of the King and I cuz Yul Brynner is a legend and I would've killed to see him perform this role live...or the original cast of Little Shop off broadway cuz it's my fav musical and I love Ellen Greene

#15

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Posted: 12/20/05 at 7:41pm

The original Oklahoma!, definitely. You'd be witnessing history in the making, and it was something so new and different, at the time. I don't know what I'd wear, though... some type of gown, I guess.

#16

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Posted: 12/20/05 at 8:08pm

Oh I forgot to give mine.

I would see the original Hal Prince-directed Sweeney Todd

or Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard

#17

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Posted: 12/20/05 at 8:11pm

Into The Woods...

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#18

re: Time machine

Posted: 12/20/05 at 8:13pm

CAMELOT. Because the remarkable talent of the original cast has just never been equaled on Broadway or anywhere else, in my opinion.

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#19

re: Time machine

Posted: 12/20/05 at 8:15pm

I would go in my time machine back to 1996 and the opening night of Rent, but i would bring all the shirts and pins and souvinears they sell now and sell them to people after the show saying I am from the not to distent future, Rent will be a huge hit, and to not vote for George Bush.

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#20

re: Time machine

Posted: 12/21/05 at 9:03am

We already had a thread similar to this.

Well, I would go see Les Miz in 1996 because I never understood it when I was that young. (I desperately want to see it again.) I would wear just plain nice clothes.

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#21

re: Time machine

Posted: 12/21/05 at 9:30am

I would go back to 1956 and see My Fair Lady, when Julie Andrews was in her prime and I would have to stop myself from jumping Rex Harrison because of his terribly sexy voice. And I would wear something very classy and glamourous according to the 50's style . . . because that's cool.

Then I would spazz out and die.

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#22

re: Time machine

Posted: 12/21/05 at 9:47am

I'd see the original Sweeney Todd and probably die as a result of the genius that is Sondheim.

I'd also see Parade, just because I am so in love with the music that I'd like to see the show (even though I've read it didn't work very well).

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