What notable shows did you MISS?
What notable shows did you MISS?
#1What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 1:02pm
I’ve seen about 60 shows on Broadway, which is far more than most people I know in real life. It’s nothing compared to some people here, though. How do some manage to see everything, on both sides of the Atlantic? I am green with envy.
To make me feel better about myself, please share any shows or performances that you failed to get to? Who DIDN’T see Patti in Gypsy, or Bette in Hello Dolly, or Nicole in Sunset etc. etc.?
Thank you…
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Theatrefanboy1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/15
#2What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 1:13pm
I missed gypsy with Patti. And Aaron in Catch Me If You can. Angela Lansbury in Night Music.
#3What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 1:23pm
"Bobbi Boland", and I'm sad every day about it.
Sytwix
Understudy Joined: 4/30/14
#5What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 2:10pm
The Falsettos revival, The Bridges of Madison County, Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Murder Ballad. I still kick myself every time I listen to the cast recordings.
Yessica Haircut
Chorus Member Joined: 7/30/21
#6What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 2:29pm
I still occasionally kick myself for missing the 2018 revival Three Tall Women.
I was kicking myself most of this year for missing Dead Outlaw, but thankfully I'll have my chance in a few months.
Dan6
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/10
#7What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 2:51pm
I'm dating myself a bit, but my greatest theatrical regret has always been missing the Broadway production of Nicholas Nickleby in 1981. (I saw the version filmed for PBS, but it's obviously not the same.). More recently, I was most sorry to miss The Inheritance, for which I had tickets in late March 2020 (though I did see a great production at the Geffen in LA) and William Jackson Harper's performance in Primary Trust.
#8What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 4:02pm
Moose Murders
Legends
Bobby Boland
Patti in Sunset Boulevard
Listener
Featured Actor Joined: 9/25/22
#9What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 4:51pm
Anything Goes was one I should have checked out, but I didn't think it was a must-see. My mistake.
Sunset Boulevard in the 90s would have been great.
Thoroughly Modern Millie.
War Paint.
And definitely the Hello Dolly revival.
#10What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 5:16pm
In recent memory, I really wish I had seen Shuffle Along. I also regret not seeing John Cameron Mitchell in the Hedwig revival; by then I had already seen it a couple of times and I couldn't fit in another return visit.
#11What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 5:24pm
Not Broadway, but I still intensely regret not attending the 24 hour performance of Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History of Popular Music. I saw the entire piece about 1.5 times, in the 3 hour chunks and then two 12 hour performances in Philly, but that one time only 24 performance is legendary.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#12What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 5:46pm
Since I stopped living in the New York area):
- West Side Story cancelled due to Covid
- Cyrano de Bergerac with James McAvoy
- A View From the Bridge (Ivo Van Hove version)
- Encores Dear World, because of Donna Murphy
- Nathan Lane in The Man Who Came to Dinner
- Meryl Streep as Mother Courage
Going way, way back to when I lived in or around NYC. There really are not a lot. I saw most everything that i wanted to see.
- Zoe Caldwell in Medea
- Christopher Plummer in Barrymore (I got sick the day of the performance, which happened to be its last)
- Follies at Carnegie Hall (I don't even remember if tickets were even sold to the general public)
- Sly Fox with Jackie Gleason. I saw it with George C Scott, but would love to have seen Gleason. As I remember, it did not run very long after Scott left. I guess Gleason was a bit of a 'has been' by that time, hard to believe.
- Anya at the old Ziegfeld. Not because I wanted to see Anya, but I would have loved to have seen the Ziegfeld Theatre. I saw something else instead and Anya was closed the next week (8 performance run).
#13What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 6:03pm
I am only counting shows I missed since living in NYC: Spring Awakening OBC, American Psycho, and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet. Would also kill to have seen Tonya Pinkins in Caroline, or Change.
jagman106
Stand-by Joined: 7/17/19
#14What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 6:32pm
I'm dating myself, but I saw my first Broadway show in January 1974 on a high school field trip - Pippin. Living in northern NJ, I've been coming into the City ever since - almost 650 shows later. Some of the shows I'm sorry to have missed:
Da
The original production of Sweeney Todd
The original production of Nine
Nicholas Nickleby
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Kathleen Turner revival)
Angels in America (parts 1 and 2)
Three Tall Women (off-Broadway at the Promenade)
The Inheritance
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (with Laurie Metcalf - had tix for April 2020)
Appropriate - (I had tickets and missed it twice - once because of a snow storm and the second time because my car broke down).
BentleyB
Stand-by Joined: 4/4/17
#15What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 8:22pm
jagman106 said: "I'm dating myself, but I saw my first Broadway show in January 1974 on a high school field trip - Pippin. Living in northern NJ, I've been coming into the City ever since - almost 650 shows later. Some of the shows I'm sorry to have missed:
Da
The original production of Sweeney Todd
The original production of Nine
Nicholas Nickleby
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Kathleen Turner revival)
Angels in America (parts 1 and 2)
Three Tall Women (off-Broadway at the Promenade)
The Inheritance
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(with Laurie Metcalf - had tix for April 2020)
Appropriate - (I had tickets and missed it twice - once because of a snow storm and the second time because my car broke down)."
I am in the same time frame as you and saw most those that you missed, except Woolf and I had tickets to it in late March 2020 and Cat…Tin Roof. I will say that “Da” was one of my worst nights in the theater. I should have left..but kept thinking with Bernard Hughes, this has got to get better. It never did and the thick Irish accents made it difficult to understand and follow.
What I really wish I had seen was Nathan Lane in “Forum” I still don’t know how I did not.
jagman106
Stand-by Joined: 7/17/19
#16What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 9:05pm
BentleyB, thanks for your perspective on Da. Perhaps I'm thinking it was something more special. I remember seeing The Beauty Queen of Leenane in the late 90s and the Irish brogue was so thick, I couldn't understand what anyone on stage was saying for the first 10 minutes, but I had no problem for the rest of the show.
One show I forgot to add was Othello with JEJ and Christopher Plummer. I was in college and grad school in the late 70s/early 80s, so I missed a lot during those years.
I caught Nathan in ....Forum. It was a pleasant evening in the theater, but if you missed it, I would say you should really have no regrets.
#17What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 9:17pm
Blanchett in Streetcar at BAM. Had a ticket, fell asleep, and missed the performance.
Metcalf in Virginia Woolf. I too had tickets to see it in April 2020. I truly hope that performance has a second life.
#18What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 9:33pm
Jagman, you could always try the movie version of Da. Barnard Hughes reprises his Tony-winning role, and Martin Sheen doesn’t even attempt an Irish accent as the son!
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gibsons2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/19
#19What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 9:36pm
I think often about missing The Inheritance and I regret it up to this day. I definitely could think more about shows that I wish I've never seen.
Dreamboy3
Stand-by Joined: 10/8/18
#20What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 10:49pm
I turned down last minute comp tickets to see Natasha Richardson and Alan Cumming in Cabaret because I was too busy at work. I didn’t get around to seeing that production until its return engagement and then with Michelle Williams who I love but not in that.
And Cromer’s Our Town especially given the mixed feelings I have about the current production.
#21What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/22/24 at 11:44pm
Taboo, American Psycho, The Man From Oz
#22What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/23/24 at 2:09am
If only I were a few years older I would've loved to have seen the original productions of Arcadia, The Who's TOMMY, Kiss of the Spider Woman, the '92 Guys and Dolls revival, Cherry Jones in The Heiress, and Ralph Fiennes in Hamlet.
There are a few shows off the top of my head that I regret not seeing when I could've: the Dillane/Ehle The Real Thing, LaChiusa's The Wild Party, Marin Mazzie in The King and I, Thou Shalt Not (I am deeply jealous of all the knowing tugboat jokes), Dance of the Vampires, Lestat, and I surprisingly never made it to The Pillowman or Jerusalem.
Sometimes I'm behind the curve and start to appreciate a performer at a later date. I wish I saw Santino Fontana in more when he was a regular on and off Broadway.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#23What notable shows did you MISS?
Posted: 12/23/24 at 6:04am
Jordan Catalano said: ""Bobbi Boland", and I'm sad every day about it."
Same here. I had tickets for the play’s second week of previews and it closed on me. I did get to pop into the Cort Theatre when they were loading the sets out. The marquee and photos outside the theatre were still up. Still bummed I never got to see what would have been Farrah Fawcett’s Broadway debut.
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