Spring Awakening Little Mermaid Beauty and the Beast Lion King Shrek 9 to 5 West Side Story (revival) Company (2006 Revival) Wicked 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Young Frankenstein Legally Blonde Mary Poppins Next to Normal Phantom of the Opera Rent Hairspray
There probably are a couple more, I just can't think of them right now.
Beauty & the Beast Chitty Chitty Bang Bang The Lion King Tarzan Wicked (x3) Hairspray (x2 Mary Poppins (x2) Grease Legally Blonde How the Grinch Stole Christmas Spamalot (x2) Curtains Young Frankenstein A Chorus Line Little Mermaid (x2) Xanadu (x2) Jersey Boys Gypsy Mamma Mia 13 In The Heights (x2) Phantom of the Opera Shrek (x3) The 39 Steps Billy Elliot (x2) 9 to 5 (x3) Blithe Spirit West Side Story Guys & Dolls Waiting for Godot Chicago Burn the Floor Avenue Q Next to Normal Rock of Ages South Pacific
Off-Broadway: Toxic Avenger
Seeing soon: Bye Bye Birdie Finian's Rainbow White Christmas Ragtime Legally Blonde tour
UPCOMING SHOWS***La Cage Aux Folles-4/9, Lend Me A Tenor-4/10, Next to Normal-4/10, Legally Blonde tour-6/5, Jersey Boys-6/9, A Little Night Music-6/9, Addams Family-6/10
1776 The 1940's Radio Hour 42nd Street Aida Annie Anything Goes Avenue Q Barnum Beauty and the Beast The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Bette! Divine Madness Big Blood Brothers Cabaret Cats Chess Chicago A Chorus Line Cyrano Damn Yankees Dancin' A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine Evil Dead Evita A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Gilda Live! Grease Grey Gardens Gypsy Hair Hairpspray How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying I Love My Wife Into the Woods Jekyll & Hyde The King and I Kiss of the Spider Woman Legally Blonde Les Misérables Little Shop of Horrors The Magic Show Miss Saigon Nine On the Twentieth Century Passion Peter Pan The Phantom of the Opera Pippin The Pirates of Penzance The Rink Sarava Saturday Night Fever The Secret Garden Spring Awakening Starlight Express Sugar Babies Sunset Blvd Sweeney Todd Sweet Charity Titanic Taboo They're Playing Our Song Tommy Urinetown Victor/Victoria Wicked The Wiz Young Frankenstein Xanadu
Grey Gardens Guys and Dolls Gypsy Hairspray In the Heights The King and I Kiss Me, Kate Les Miserables The Light in the Piazza The Lion King The Little Mermaid Little Shop of Horrors Little Women Mamma Mia Man of La Mancha Mary Poppins Oklahoma! Pal Joey Peter Pan The Phantom of the Opera The Producers Saturday Night Fever Shrek The Sound of Music South Pacific Sunday in the Park with George Sweeney Todd Sweet Charity Thoroughly Modern Millie The Wedding Singer West Side Story Wicked The Woman in White Wonderful Town Young Frankenstein
I also keep a list on my computer that I update every time I see a show. I'll limit this to Broadway only.
Musicals: The Lion King (2x) Aida Tarzan Wicked Hairspray Beauty and the Beast Rent (2x) The Drowsy Chaperone Les Miserables (2x) Legally Blonde (2x) Curtains Spring Awakening (3x) Chicago Grease A Chorus Line Jersey Boys Young Frankenstein Mary Poppins Sunday in the Park with George Gypsy (LuPone, 2x) Cry-Baby [title of show] South Pacific Xanadu In the Heights Shrek The Little Mermaid Next to Normal (2x) Billy Elliot 9 to 5 West Side Story The Phantom of the Opera Hair Bye Bye Birdie Finian's Rainbow Ragtime
Plays: August: Osage County Blithe Spirit The 39 Steps Hamlet A Steady Rain
So that's 36 musicals and 5 plays, for a total of 41. Not bad, considering I got interested in theatre in 2006 and began going regularly (about once a month) in 2007. Recently, I've been going every other week. Updated On: 11/8/09 at 09:30 AM
But i'm gonna cheat and just list broadway musicals that i've seen on tour and in various cities too
wicked rent jersey boys (chicago) the phantom of the opera legally blonde Grease (the new 2009 tour) the lion king the lord and the rings (toronto) annie oklahoma into the woods smokie joe's cafe
and this year, i'll be seeing next to normal hair young frankenstein mary poppins Updated On: 11/8/09 at 10:15 AM
Wicked Nine Curtains West Side Story Guys and Dolls Thoroughly Modern Millie Mary Poppins Beauty and the Beast 9 to 5 Jersey Boys The Boy from Oz Little Women Shrek Young Frankenstein Legally Blonde Grease Rock of Ages Xanadu South Pacific Hairspray Gypsy The Little Mermaid Chicago
Counting plays and off-Broadway, not counting repeats:
Beauty and the Beast Little Women Hairspray Mary Poppins Wicked Spring Awakening August: Osage County Hair Legally Blonde Company Into the Woods Sweeney Todd Sunday in the Park With George Grey Gardens Next to Normal Speech and Debate In the Heights Phantom of the Opera Shrek Guys and Dolls Gypsy Side Show
Seen on Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Aida Assassins Avenue Q Boy From Oz Cabaret (Studio 54) La Cage aux Folles (original) Camelot (1981 revival) Caroline, or Change Chorus Line (revival) Color Purple Company (2006 revival) Falsettos Full Monty Funny Thing Happened.. Forum (revival) Gypsy (Tyne and Bernadette versions) Hairspray In the Heights Into the Woods (original and revival) Les Miserables (5x) Lion King Oklahoma (1979 revival) Passion Phantom of the Opera Producers Spamalot Spring Awakening Thoroughly Modern Millie Threepenny Opera (Sting) [title of show] West Side Story (2009) Xanadu
National Tours Beauty and the Beast Best Little Whorehouse Big River Bubbling Brown Sugar Cats Chorus Line (original) City of Angels Dancin’ Dreamgirls Eubie Evita Grease Hair (original tour) Kiss of the Spider Woman Nine Ragtime Rent Sunday in the Park Sweeney Todd (original) Sweet Charity (Debbie Allen versios) The Wiz
West End (London) Billy Elliott Blood Brothers Bombay Dreams Fiddler on the Roof Jerry Springer Little Shop of Horrors Momma Mia My Fair Lady (Trevor Nunn, 2005) Parade (Donmar) Song and Dance Taboo A variety of Pantomimes
Off-Broadway A New Brain Altar Boyz Bat Boy Elegies, a Song Cycle Floyd Collins Hedwig Love, Janis
BROADWAY [title of show] (x3) 9 to 5 13 33 Variations The 39 Steps A Bronx Tale A Catered Affair A Man For All Seasons A Tale of Two Cities After Miss Julie All My Sons American Buffalo The American Plan August: Osage County Avenue Q Billy Elliot Blithe Spirit Boeing Boeing Brighton Beach Memoirs Bye Bye Birdie Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Color Purple (x2) Come Back, Little Sheba Cry-Baby Curtains Cymbeline Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Drowsy Chaperone (x2) Equus Exit the King Finian's Rainbow Glory Days Guys And Dolls Gypsy Hairspray Hedda Gabler The History Boys The Homecoming In The Heights In The Next Room Irena's Vow Is He Dead? Jersey Boys Joe Turner's Come and Gone Legally Blonde Les Liaisons Dangereuses The Lieutenant of Inishmore The Light in the Piazza The Lion King The Little Mermaid Mary Poppins Mary Stuart The Norman Conquests: Living Together The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden The Norman Conquests: Table Manners November Pal Joey Passing Strange The Phantom of the Opera The Philanthropist Reasons To Be Pretty Rent (x2) The Ritz Rock 'n' Roll The Seafarer The Seagull South Pacific Spamalot Speed The Plow Spring Awakening (x2) The Story of My Life Sunday in the Park with George (x2) Sweeney Todd (x2) Tarzan (x2) To Be Or Not To Be Top Girls Waiting for Godot The Wedding Singer Wicked (x3) Wishful Drinking Xanadu (x2) Young Frankenstein
Updated On: 11/8/09 at 02:17 PM
And some of these were seen multiple times, but I'm not going to total that.
The Phantom of The Opera (Broadway, tour) Les Miserables (Broadway, tour, Walnut Street Theatre) Lestat (Broadway) Company (5th Avenue Theatre) Sweeney Todd (Broadway) Hairspray (Broadway) Forbidden Broadway (Broadway) Annie (tour) Camelot (tour, local) Hearts of Fire (local) Brigadoon (tour, local) The Sound of Music (local) West Side Story (local) Assassins (local) Peter Pan (tour) Cats (tour) Starlight Express (tour) Aida (tour) Raggedy Anne (pre-Broadway tryout)
Cats Phantom of the Opera (x2) Annie Get Your Gun The Producers Gypsy Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy Spamalot (x2) In The Heights (x3) Shrek The Musical (x Young Frankenstein (x13) West Side Story 9 to 5 Next to Normal (x2) Bye Bye Birdie Finian's Rainbow
1978 - Dancin' 1978 - Working (long, dry spell between visits) 1997 - Rent 1998 - Forbidden Broadway Strike Back! (oh, wait, that's off-Broadway) 1999 - Les Miz 2000 - Kiss Me, Kate 2001 - The Producers 2001 - contact 2007 - Company 2007 - Mamma Mia! 2007 - Jersey Boys 2009 - West Side Story (2) 2009 - Guys and Dolls 2009 - Avenue Q 2009 - Hair
In Washington (Sondheim Celebration)
2002 - A Little Night Music 2002 - Passion
Dozens of national tours (from Hair in 1970 to Wicked last year)
Minus the one performance I saw of Annie on Broadway back in 1996, I have seen the following shows all in the past 5 years:
[title of show] (Broadway) - 3x 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Broadway) - 11x Altar Boyz (Off-Broadway) Annie (Broadway, National Tour, numerous school producions) - 7x Avenue Q (Broadway) Beauty and the Beast (Broadway) - 3x Cabaret (Regional Theatre) Chicago (Broadway) The Drowsy Chaperone (Broadway) Finding Nemo the Musical (Walt Disney World) Grease (school production) Grey Gardens (Broadway) - 3x Guys and Dolls (school production) Gypsy (Broadway) Hairspray (Broadway) - 3x How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (school production) Into the Woods (school production) - 9x The King and I (Regional Theatre) Legally Blonde (Broadway) Les Miserables (Broadway) - 3x Little Women (Broadway) - 3x The Music Man (school production) Next to Normal (Broadway) - 3x Oklahoma (school production) Oliver! (school production) - 2x The Pajama Game (school production) Pippin (school production) Rent (Broadway) The Rocky Horror Show (school production) - 9x Shrek the Musical (Broadway) - 5x Wicked (Broadway) The Wiz (Broadway)
= 32 separate shows, not counting numerous visits. I never would have guessed that I have seen that many.
Cats Tour Rent Tour Wicked on Broadway and Tour Phantom Las Vegas Three Times The Lion King Tour Ragtime Revival Shrek Broadway Next to Normal Broadway The Color Purple Tour Mamma Mia Tour Jersey Boys Vegas
Rent x2 Aida Wicked 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee x2 Beauty and the Beast Spring Awakening Company Curtains The Pirate Queen Les Miserables
Easy when you live in England and have only been to NYC three times. Thanks to my detailed records, I can also give you a list of every West End musical I've ever seen as well.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat x3 Sunday in the Park with George Les Miserables x2 Evita x2 Billy Elliot Wicked x4 Guys and Dolls Avenue Q x3 Caroline, or Change Porgy and Bess Follies (it was a one-off concert staging, but in a West End theatre so totally counts) Mary Poppins x2 The Phantom of the Opera Cabaret The Drowsy Chaperone x2 The Lord of the Rings x2 Fiddler on the Roof Parade Hairspray x2 Rent: Remixed Gone with the Wind Marguerite Zorro x2 La Cage aux Folles x3 (or x4 if we're including off-West End, which I'm not really) Imagine This Spring Awakening Carousel Sunset Boulevard Chicago Priscilla Queen of the Desert Ernie Get Your Gun Too Close to the Sun
(Everything except the three Joseph trips has been since July 2006. If we're comparing e-penis size. ) I've also seen quite a bit at the Coliseum, and Sweeney Todd as a staged concert at the Royal Festival Hall. And a load of off-West End, an array of regional things, and a mess of tours (I've lost count of how many times I've seen Blood Brothers in my life, but I don't suppose I've ever seen it in London). Problem is, musicals tend to run for as long as they can rather than being limited runs right from the get-go, so I'll almost always choose to see a play over a musical 'cos I know the play is almost certainly going to go first. Plus, y'know, I REALLY REALLY like plays. :3 I really ought to get my ass in gear re: Oliver! and Sister Act...
If this is a contest, than so far I'm winning. I've seen 173 Broadway musical productions (and still remembering more). This doesn't count multiple visits, plays, West End, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, regional, tours, etc.
I'm actually surprised that my 173 is the top number so far. The way many of the people here write and treat each other, I have felt a second class citizen without the experience necessary to "count". Interesting to find out differently.
Lol, I did not mean to make this a competition- if it were I would obviously lose! I was just curious to see if I could figure out how many Broadway musicals I've seen and thought that other people may want to know their "number" too.
Actually, you didn't. It's clear that I'm insecure about my e-penis size, so I felt compelled to write the above post.
I'm glad you did start this post though. It has been a lot of fun trying to remember all these shows, and I'm still trying. I wish the database here had easy access to a list of all Broadway musicals (or I knew how to search them), as it would be really cool to go through the entire list and get a definitive list for myself.
The more I think about this, the more I'm remembering, so my list is just growing.
Why not....I'm procrastinating anyway... These are in no particular order...
-The Lion King -Ragtime -Grease -Rent (14 X's...including 3 tour stops) (eek!) -Wicked -Wedding Singer - Spring Awakening (3 X's) -Hairspray - Avenue Q - Hair (2 X's) - In the Heights - Next to Normal - Aida - The Producers - Young Frankenstein -Spamalot (once on B'way, once on West End) -Beauty & the Beast
Tours/Regional: -Rent (stated already) - tick....tick....Boom! - Beauty & the Beast -42nd Street -Fame -Footloose -Sound of Music -Ragtime -Chicago -Wicked -Chorus Line
Broadway: WICKED MARY POPPINS Phantom of the opera
Tour: CINDERELLA (kitt/siggler tour),Beauty and the beast (2nd national),Seussical (1st national) The Lion King, Peter Pan (rigby farwell), Little Women, Hairspray, Phantom of the opera, The Color Purple, Annie, Spamalot.
Avenue Q (First Bway Show!) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Lestat Sweeney Todd Revival Rent (Pascal & Rapp) Legally Blonde Spring Awakening (Both OBC and Replacement Cast) Curtains Xanadu South Pacific Patti Lupone Gypsy In The Heights Title of Show
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
On Broadway: Wicked Avenue Q Rent La Cage Aux Folles Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Grey Gardens Company Les Miserables The Apple Tree Spring Awakening Exit the King Billy Elliot Wishful Drinking After Miss Julie God of Carnage South Pacific In The Heights Shrek the Musical Memphis Hamlet Bye Bye Birdie Hair
Pre-Broadway: A Chorus Line Thoroughly Modern Millie 33 Variations Jersey Boys Cry-Baby A Catered Affair 9 to 5 The Grinch Mary Poppins The Times They Are A'Changin The Farnsworth Invention 700 Sundays Chita Rivera: The Dancers Life Curtains
I wish I've seen more shows, but I love all of the shows that I've seen over the years! :) [well, since 2002]
42nd Street Beauty and the Beast Thoroughly Modern Millie Gypsy (2003) The Drowsy Chaperone Sweeney Todd Les Miserables A Chorus Line Legally Blonde Curtains Young Frankenstein [x3 in two days! :)] Shrek [x5 ... soon to be 8!] Billy Elliot Chicago
Off-Broadway: Forbidden Broadway [the latest one, I forgot what it was called.]
Tour: Spamalot Avenue Q Chicago
Plus I saw the Radio City Rockettes! Amazing! Oh, and I saw the Tonys this past year, that was quite an experience!
And I know this isn't really a show, but my favorite Broadway related experience so far is def when I saw Sutton Foster in concert this past Feb. at the Lincoln Center! What an amazing night that was! :)
13 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Avenue Q Beauty and the Beast Bye Bye Birdie (well I'm seeing it next week...) Gypsy (LuPone) Hair Hairspray Into The Woods Les Miserables Little Shop of Horrors Mamma Mia Next to Normal Rent The Sound of Music Spring Awakening West Side Story Wicked Updated On: 11/8/09 at 11:20 PM