What show(s) rekindle your love of theatre?- Page 2

[Wicked_fan]

Posted: 11/28/06 at 3:21pm

I never lose my love for theatre...

but just today I remembered how head over heels I'm in love with theatre when I rediscovered the show "The Children's Hour".

ugh. brilliant BRILLIANT play.

[ByMySide25]

Posted: 11/28/06 at 4:06pm

SWEENEY TODD and AVENUE Q. Both so different but amazing in their own right.

[The White Half-Mask]

Posted: 11/28/06 at 6:25pm

"Phantom" was my first musical & will always hold a special place in my heart.

[JustABroadwaybaby2]

Posted: 11/28/06 at 6:26pm

A CHORUS LINE
LES MISERABLES REVIVAL
THE PAJAMA GAME
AVENUE Q
SPELLING BEE
TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN' (This is what bad theatre is all about!)

[alliez92092]

Posted: 11/28/06 at 6:28pm

I had seen Mamma Mia! and Hairspray, but it wasn't until I saw Wicked that I began to look deeper into theatre. I see it a lot to remind me of the magic I first felt and to remind me of why I love theatre.

It sounds fangirlish, but whatever. It's the truth and I wouldn't change anything.

[RevolutionaryCostume]

Posted: 11/28/06 at 11:32pm

As embarassing as it is to say. . it was "Wicked."

I lost my obsessions in theatre for a few years after high school, and I saw "Wicked" on a whim in Chicago and I found myself to engrossed by the chemistry between Kristy Cates and Stacie Morgain Lewis.

I know it's not the best show . . but there was just something about the spectacle of it that made me giddy for theatre again.

~Jacob.

[bwaydoc]

Posted: 11/29/06 at 9:16am

My parents had taken me to see musicals when I was younger (Annie, A Chorus Line), but I don't ever recall being really into musicals until high school. My friend gave me a recording of Rent, which happened to be her favorite musical at the time, and I absolutely fell in love. I was obsessed and listened to the recording nonstop for several months. Then I saw that Rent was touring near me and got to see the actual musical for the first time and fell in love again.

A few years later, when I was in college, I took my first trip to New York with the intention of seeing Rent and a few other musicals. What really pulled me in then was Cabaret at Studio 54. I had seen it once before, but the staging and the theatre set-up of Studio 54 was incredible and made you feel like an audience at the Kit Kat Club as opposed to just an audience in the theatre and I loved it.

After that I kind of got caught up in school and then graduation and figuring out what I wanted to do, and as much as I still loved my old recordings and my theatre experiences I wasn't really paying that much attention to the theatre world...until I started grad school and met a friend who introduced me to Wicked. She insisted I had to see it and after seeing it on tour and finally on Broadway I was hooked all over again. Since then (only a year ago) I've been to New York numerous times (it helps that I live closer now) and have become obsessed with everything Broadway all over again. I can't wait to see new shows and hear new recordings and discover old shows I've never seen.

I know Rent and Wicked are kinda cliche, but I'm all for whatever draws people into the world of theatre and if those are a springboard for future shows, so be it.