What Pre Broadway shows have you seen? — Page 2

#26

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 3:47pm

Matty159, I pity you (and share your pain) for having seen Annie 2--Miss Hannigan's revenge. I recall it as the worst show I have ever seen. So glad it didn't make it to Broadway....

#27

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 3:56pm

Annie 20th (before Joanna Pacitti was fired)

#28

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 4:07pm

Will be seeing West Side Story in December.

Didn't you JUST ask if there was going to be a revival?

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#29

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 4:14pm

Macbeth
Next To Normal

Other people seem to be assuming Next To Normal will transfer, I sure hope it does.

#30

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 4:25pm

Dracula in La Jolla. I liked it. I thought they made too many changes for Broadway most of them not for the better. It was a completely different show

#31

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 5:03pm

Mamma Mia!

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#32

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 5:46pm

Spamalot
Radio Golf
August: Osage County

#33

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 5:48pm

Next to Normal :)


that's it for now! haha

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#34

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 6:15pm

Queen of the Night, thank you for the comisseration! It was one of the biggest hot messes I have ever seen on a stage.

Let's hope DC can turn its bad stretch (well, we have yet to see with Glory Days) around with WSS, The Visit, and N2N as they travel to Broadway!

#35

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 6:47pm

Three that stick out in my head are the pre- Broadway tryouts of the Little Shop revival, Urban Cowboy, and Times They Are A- Changin'. Also saw the regional try- out of 'Men', before it moved to New York, added Marc Kudisch, and became 'The Thing About Men'.

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#36

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 6:50pm

Little Mermaid in Denver

#37

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 8:00pm

This brought back a lot of memories.

Thoroughly Modern Millie
Wicked
Lestat
Dracula
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
A Catered Affair
Lennon
La Boheme
Mambo Kings (it was suppose to go)
Flower Drum Song (revival)
Curtains

I'm sure I've seen others, but these are the ones I can remember.

#38

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 8:23pm

Pirate Queen in Chicago

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#39

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 8:33pm

I feel horrible that The Pirate Queen is the only Pre-Broadway run I have soon. But when tickets go on sale for the out-of-town run for Tommy Tune's new show at The Goodman I will definitely be going there to see it.

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#40

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 8:51pm

Lake, is that listed on the Broadwayinchicago.com website? Or do you know for a fact its coming?

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#41

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 8:57pm

The show is called GYPSY and it stars Patti LuPone, folks.


GYPSY (with LuPone) at Encores!
MAMMA MIA! in London.
MARY POPPINS in London.


I feel like there are more off-to-on transfers than I'm thinking of.

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#42

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/27/08 at 9:21pm

BIC does not own The Goodman, so it is not on their site. Tommy Tune's new Musical Turn Of The Century starts performances on Sept 19th. Tickets are not on sale yet.

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Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!

"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"

lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical

#43

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/28/08 at 1:29am

I saw Mamma Mia! in London a good year before it came to the States.

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#44

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/28/08 at 2:12am

While I've never seen anything in London I don't know if I would count West End runs as "pre-Broadway". To me the West End is on the same level as Broadway and is different than an out of town tryout in DC, Denver, Chicago, etc.

The only "pre-Broadway" show I've seen was Tale of Two Cities in Sarasota, Florida this past October. I wish I could say I've seen more but this isn't a very popular destination for an out of town tryout. Though I'd love to hear an announcement about a show opening at Kelsey Theatre for one! :)

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#45

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/28/08 at 2:13am

Drowsy Chaperone in LA
9 to 5 in LA (will see it in September 200

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#46

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/28/08 at 2:20am

Big the Musical (Detroit)
You're A Good Man Charlie Brown Revival (Detroit)
Ragtime (Toronto)
Aida (Chicago)
Pirate Queen (Chicago)

And since I have Ahmanson season tickets this year, I'll be seeing 9 to 5 and The Night They Raided Minsky's

I remember liking all of them, but almost all of my admiration for Pirate Queen came from Stephanie J. Block's performance. I have a window card of Big from the tryout in Detroit... I wonder what that would catch on Ebay...

#47

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/28/08 at 2:24am

Vengo (?)
The Gypsy Camp Vanishes into the Blue (?)
Shakespeare Could Never Imagine (?)
Carnival (?)


Sorry, I couldn't resist that one
.... but yeah!

#48

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/28/08 at 2:48am

Feeling Electric (before it became Next to Normal) at the Musical Theatre Festival
Little Shop in Coral Springs, FL
Mauritius (the workshop at Playfest Orlando before it's Broadway Transfer)
Macbeth at BAM

#49

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/28/08 at 2:59am

Wedding Singer
Hairspray
Young Frankenstein
Shrek in August

#50

re: What Pre Broadway shows have you seen?

Posted: 4/28/08 at 3:20am

A CHORUS LINE (Pre-Broadway Revival in SF)
LENNON (Pre-Broadway debut in SF)
LESTAT (Pre-Broadway debut in SF)
LEGALLY BLONDE (Pre-Broadway debut in SF)
THE MAMBO KINGS (Debut in SF, never made it to Broadway)
MARTIN SHORT: FAME BECOMES ME (SF 1-of-3 Try-Out Cities)
PASSING STRANGE (World Premiere at Berkeley Rep)