What is the very first show you remember seeing?

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:20pm

I remember my mom taking me to see You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown...the touring company that came to Cleveland. Snoopy's "Bring on the hamburg, bring on the bun..." is imprinted permanently in my memory. It set off at least a decade of seeking Snoopy paraphanalia....pillows, nightshirts, Pez dispensers....

[newyorkuniq]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:26pm

The first show I ever saw was The Wiz when I was 5.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:29pm

When I was growing up here on Long Island, our home was very close to a summer theater--which really was a converted barn. There was no air conditioning in those days. Throughout the summer I heard much of the performances as they wafted through the open doors and into the night air. I pestered my parents to take me to a show and finally my mother took me to see a comedy called THE GOLDEN FLEECING (the movie was re-titled THE HONEYMOON MACHINE). I thought it was exceptional. Many years later, when I was directing high school plays, I chose THE GOLDEN FLEECING and realized it was a fairly lame excuse for a comedy.

Updated On: 10/20/03 at 07:29 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:31pm

Here's Love with Janice Page ( who later replaced Angela Lansbury in Mame) & Craig (Peter Gunn ) Stevens. Speaking of Peter Gunn, whatever happened to Lola ALbright who sang @ Mother's in the show?

[King Stevos]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:32pm

Joseph and The Technicolor Dream Coat.

local college did it, I was enamored, and the next year did my first show. Bye Bye Birdie.

STEVOS

[StateOfJade]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 8:15pm

It was 'The King and I.' I hated it then and I hate it now.

[theatreguy]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 8:36pm

A local theater company did the musical version of Peter Pan every year for about 8 years back in the 80's. That was the first show I saw and Peter Pan (both the musical and the straight play) has remained one of my favorite shows to see.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 8:44pm

Hate "The King & I" . Never thought I'd hear that one. Now I have heard everything. Nothing more surprises me.

[dotmarie]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 8:50pm

The King & I was the first show I remember seeing as well...Liked it then and I like it now. :)

I also remember seeing South Pacific at a very young age.

[tapbaby2356]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 8:50pm

Oklahoma!...fitting cause i live in oklahoma... it was outdoors, yes, great fun memories...i was 4? still remeber it!

[Becky]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 9:12pm

I saw "Jesus Christ Superstar" at my church when I was 4 - and I remember my grandma having to go find the guy that played Jesus to show me he really didn't die because I was extremely upset.

The first professional production I saw was "Sound of Music" with Betty Buckley when I was 5.

[Hello Gorgeous]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 9:21pm

Beauty and the Beast...lol cliche first show I know...

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 9:25pm

Footloose 1st National Tour

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 11:06pm

The Paperbag Players. I was three.
I love my parents for taking me to the theater at an early age. I could not stop singing "What came first the chicken or the egg." I was hooked at three. Updated On: 10/20/03 at 11:06 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 11:08pm

I was hooked at 12. Wait, are you talking about theater?

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 11:10pm

LOL!

[cabarethed]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 11:26pm

The Music Man on my 5th gr class trip to some boat theatre in Philadelphia. I think I liked it back then...not really anymore though.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 11:54pm

My first show was Godspell with this kid who used to take care of my sister and I when we were little.... I must have been 5 or something.

[CJR]

Posted: 10/21/03 at 12:02am

A Chorus Line on Broadway. I was 4. I don't remember a whole lot... I actually didn't realize I had seen it at all till a family member reminded me, and then I realized why the Shubert had always felt so familiar whenever I saw Chicago there.

[robyn525600]

Posted: 10/21/03 at 9:26am

CATS

[LadyMann]

Posted: 10/21/03 at 9:46am

Unfortuanetly my first broadway show was "The Red Shoes"...but its ok I bounced back seeing "Damn Yankees" and "BATB" just a few months later!!!!
Aimee

[rlbgbc]

Posted: 10/21/03 at 9:55am

The very very first one? Hmmmm....

I remember going BACKSTAGE at "The Wizard Of Oz", as performed by the Junior Women's Club of Champaign, IL. My mother was a member. I thought I was actually meeting Dorothy, etc.

But, the first actual PERFORMANCE I remember sitting through was CAROUSEL, as performed by the Music Dept. of Hartsville, SC, High School.

And yes, I still love CAROUSEL. What a score.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 10/21/03 at 9:59am

"It's a Bird, it's a Plane, It's SUPERMAN!" I think I was 6.
I remember nothing about it except for the fact that I was bored silly.

And to think, my parents could have taken me to see MAME.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/21/03 at 10:49am

My 4th grade teacher did community musical theater in her spare time so she would perform for us at very random moments during class :c) She ended up taking us to her favorite musical EVER! "The Music Man" Didn't much like it then and when I watch it now I really want to puke.

But hey...it's what started my fascination with musicals so I guess it's not all bad :cP

[ChristineDaae]

Posted: 10/21/03 at 12:27pm

Very first Broadway show: Phantom of the Opera, 2 years ago!

I've seen other shows before.. like Annie but those shows were played in local theatres. I'm not totally sure of what my first show was.. I think it was Annie. =-)

Updated On: 10/21/03 at 12:27 PM