What notable shows did you MISS?

I missed gypsy with Patti. And Aaron in Catch Me If You can. Angela Lansbury in Night Music.

OBC of Next to Normal

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.

Moose Murders

Legends

Bobby Boland

Patti in Sunset Boulevard

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.

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).

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).

Updated On: 12/22/24 at 06:32 PM

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.

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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!

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.

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.