What five shows that opened before you were born ...

[JLagow]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 4:42pm

would you most like to have seen? Mine probably would be (no particular order):

1. Gypsy with Ethel
2. Original production of The Golden Apple
3. Original production of Carnival
4. Original production of Promises Promises
5. Original production of Anyone Can Whistle

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 4:46pm

Pippin
Godspell
Jesus Christ Superstar
Hair
Evita

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 4:52pm

Original GYPSY
Original cast of A CHORUS LINE
Original cast of CATS
Off-Broadway (original production) LITTLE SHOP
Original cast of FIDDLER

[JBGolightly]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 4:54pm

Little Shop with Ellen Greene
Original Man of La Mancha
Gypsy with Angela Lansbury
Little Night Music

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 4:57pm

Show Boat
Oklahoma
Gypsy
Hair
West Side Story

[CurtainUp]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 5:44pm

Sweeney with Angela
OBC of Into the Woods opened the YEAR I was born
OBC of MyFir Lady
OBC of Chorus Line
OBC of Gypsy

[PJ]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 5:48pm

Gypsy w/ Merman
Gypsy w/ Lansbury
Evita w/ LuPone
Mame w/ Lansbury
Song & Dance w/ Peters

[Musetta1957]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 5:49pm

Babes in Arms
110 in the Shade
A Chorus Line OBC
Jesus Christ Superstar OBC
Hair OBC

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 5:50pm

Original cast of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Second cast with Ms. Stritch would be all right too)

Original cast of Streetcar Named Desire

Original cast of My Fair Lady

Original cast of The Lark (I adore Julie Harris)

Original cast of Annie Get Yor Gun

[UptownGirl]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 5:57pm

-Hair
-Fiddler
-Jesus Christ Superstar
-West Side Story
-Godspell

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:03pm

West Side Story
Carousel
Sound of Music
Gypsy
Hello, Dolly

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:07pm

Original Production of FOLLIES (One month after I was born, but still...)
Original COMPANY
Original A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
The Peter Brook A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (before 1971? not sure)
And ummmmmm....THE GOLDEN APPLE?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:26pm

How about ten?

-- Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie
-- Brando and Tandy in Streetcar Named Desire
-- Opening night performance of Blizstein's The Cradle Will Rock (when the cast performed from the audience)
-- Porgy and Bess (the original Theatre Guild production and the '53 revival starring Leontyne Price and Cab Calloway)
-- Threepenny Opera (1956 original off-Broadway cast, including Lotte Lenya and Bea Arthur)
-- The Orson Welles-John Houseman "Voodoo" Macbeth
-- Othello with Paul Robeson, Uta Hagen and Jose Ferrer
-- Genet's The Blacks with its original US cast (James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Maya Angelou, Roscoe Lee Browne, Esther Rolle et al)
-- Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina
-- Ethel Merman in Gypsy

[little_sally]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:29pm

Jesus Christ Superstar
Evita
Sunday in the Park With George
POTO
and...I believe even Les Mis

Yep...I'm young.

[wiggum2]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:42pm

Mame with Angela Lansbury
Gypsy with the Merm and Angela
Follies
Company
Evita( I was 3 when it opened)
A little night music
Anyone Can Whistle
My fair lady with Julie Andrews

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 7:32pm

Opening night of Porgy and Bess **le sigh**
Opening night of Oklahoma!
Opening night of West Side Story
Opening night of Hair
Opening night of Jesus Christ Superstar **le sigh**
Opening night of A Streetcar Named Desire

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 7:33pm

OBC My Fair Lady
OBC A Chorus Line
OBC Les Miserable
OBC Once on This Island (was open the year I was born)
Godspell

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 7:44pm

1. Original West Side Story
2. Original Annie Get Your Gun
3. Original Gypsy
4. Original South Pacific
5. Original Carousel

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 7:50pm

1) OLC "My Fair Lady"
2) OBC CATS
3) OBC "Camelot"
4) original off-B'way LSOH
5) OBC "Sweeney Todd"

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 7:59pm

musicals in reverse order from nearest to my birth:

1. buck white (a musical with muhammad ali)
2. jimmy (an 8 performance wonder)
3. oh calcutta! (ahhh, another appropriate title)
4. dear world (with angela lansbury!)
5. canterbury tales (lord i did this show in college, cast for my ability to belch on ccue as the filthy miller)

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 8:04pm

1. Gypsy with Merman
2. Streetcar with Brando/Tandy
3. Hello Dolly
4. Man of La Mancha
5. The Producers Updated On: 11/30/04 at 08:04 PM

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 8:06pm

West Side Story
Godspell
Little Shop of Horrors
Sweeney Todd
Carousel

~Steven

[MusicMan]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 9:28pm

Blackbirds of 1928

Chu Chin Chow

The Cohan and Harris Minstrels

Floradora

Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies of 1910

and for good measure,

The Black Crook Updated On: 11/30/04 at 09:28 PM

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 9:34pm

Hello, Dolly! with Carol Channing (the 1st time)
Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand
Evita with Patti Lupone
Brigadoon - OBC
42nd Street - OBC

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 9:51pm

Funny Girl-OBC
Company-OBC
Follies-OBC
Cabaret-OBC
West Side Story-OBC