'To-see' lists?

I have a To See list. Several, really. It usually works that I find one show I really want to see, so I work out a good date for that, then I take in a few shows around it. For instance, I wanted to see 'Wicked' early in previews in the West End, so I took that entire week off work and saw 'The Woman In Black', 'The Last Five Years', 'Les Miserables', 'Evita', 'Billy Elliot', 'Guys And Dolls', and 'Avenue Q' as well.

My next block of To See was based around 'Faust' (a National Theatre production). I chose a date that I knew I wouldn't be at work and booked my ticket. Then I booked myself in for 'The Tempest' in the afternoon. Then I booked a couple more days off work and am going to see 'La Boheme' (for £30; very specific days for that offer!) and 'Cabaret' and hopefully something else as well. I call it my March Culture Trip.

My NY Trip is coming up in March and was based around 'The Pirate Queen'. It also covers 'Spelling Bee', 'Beauty And The Beast', 'Spring Awakening', 'Company', 'Pirates Of Penzance', 'Curtains', and 'Les Miserables'.

Then I'll have a May trip back to London which should involve 'The Lord Of The Rings' and 'The Drowsy Chaperone' at the very least. Oh, and there's an April trip in the offing too, but it may not include much more than 'Wicked' and 'Equus' so may not count. Although it looks as good a time as any to slip in 'Total Eclipse'...

Anyway! ^_^ I try to work around days off as far as possible, but when I decide to extend and have a few days in London, it doesn't always work out that way. I like to work around opening dates more than closing dates; I got the final performance of 'Frost/Nixon' and have been kicking myself for not getting an earlier one, because I really would love to see it again.

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Updated On: 2/26/07 at 07:34 PM

Weez: The only reason I generally work around closing dates is because they're like deadlines--I mean, first off, I got started loving theatre only about in the spring (I guess you could call it my 'Spring Awakening'! Harr, harr!) and only started seeing shows toward the end of the summer. So, I have to work in the shows that I haven't yet seen (because of other short engagements or other things I have to see before they close, or the like), and then I have to work in the long-term stuff around that.

Spring Awakening, in particular, is waiting until summer so that I'll have a whole day where I can eschew responsibility and wait in line for rush, old-school Rent style. Others that can wait until Summer (with the exceptions of Curtains and Legally Blonde, both of which I'm dying to see!) probably will, also--convenience and all that.

ClumsyDude15: No way, I didn't realize that Anneliese would be in B&B! I'm going to try and catch it with her in.

I did have others with specific actors (specifically, Wicked with Julia/Kendra and Chicago with Bebe)--but I've seen both shows twice already and I also don't want to see Bebe and Julia/Kendra enough to miss any limited-engagement shows I would have to miss.

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This is a combination of my Broadway "To See" list and my West End "Too See" list

Shows I already have tickets to:
The Producers
The Coast of Utopia (all three)
Leagally Blonde
Equus

Shows I plan to see:
Chicago (w/ Bebe)
Curtains
Deuce
Grease
Les Mis (w/ Lea Salonga)-I've never seen this show before...hard to believe
Love Musik
Billy Elliot
Evita
The Drowsy Chaperone (West End)

More West End Possibilities:
Cabaret
Guys and Dolls
Dirty Dancing
The 39 Steps
We Will Rock You

Shows I plan to see before the end of the year:

Altar Boyz
Chicago (once more before Bebe leaves hopefully)
Curtains
Deuce
Grey Gardens
Legally Blonde
Spelling Bee
Spring Awakening
Tarzan (I plan to take my brother)

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"ClumsyDude15: No way, I didn't realize that Anneliese would be in B&B! I'm going to try and catch it with her in. "

Yup.
I gotta go see her.
And see it before it closes.
It was my first Bway show.

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Broadway:

Wicked again
Legally Blonde
Les Miz
Producers final show!
Beauty and The Beast
Mary Poppins again
Apple Tree
110 in the Shade


West End:

Blood Brothers
Mary Poppins
Wicked
Little Shop Of Horrors
Chicago
Evita
Porgy and Bess

NYC:

Grey Gardens (happening)
Mary Poppins (happening)
Spring Awakening (hopefully by end of the summer)
Curtains (with OBC)
Frost/Nixon
Sunday in the Park with George

TOURS:

Doubt (with Cherry Jones)
The Light in the Piazza

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Grey Gardens (Hopefully)
Drowsy Chaperone (Hopefully)

If I could gte to NYC more often, my list would be much larger.

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WELL, when I'm in NYC from march 7-11 here's my list
no order:

Chorus Line, Les Mis, Grey Gardens, Pirate Queen, Apple Tree, Company, Spring Awakening

AND I will see all of them while I'm there:) I will see to it.

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Well, I am taking a school trip during the end of March thru the start of April (my choir is singing in Carnagie Hall!)

And I am seeing:

-Spelling Bee (have tix)
-Pirate Queen (have tix)
-Inherit the Wind
-Either BATB or Producers (trying to decide which one to see, since they are both closing)

I WISH I was there for LB, but the 1st preview is the day after we leave. I am just really interested in how that is going to work.

I also am looking for recommendations for what to see. The last time I was in NYC I saw:

-Wicked (loved it)
-Rent (loved it)
-POTO (loved it)
-Sweeney Todd (closing) (AMAZING)
-Tarzan
-Ave Q (loved it)

And on tour I've seen:
-Hairspray (pretty good)
-Wicked (loved it)
-Doubt (loved it)
-Joseph (ew, my high school production was ALMOST as good)
-Les Miz (ehhhh)
-Spamalot (pretty good)

Based on what I've seen before and what I said I liked, what would you say I should see?

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A Moon for the Misbegotten
Inherit the Wind

There's a demo floating around. I don't know how old it is, so maybe all (or most of) the music has been rehauled, but I love what I've heard.

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