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What was the first musical you saw?
WiCkEd4LyFfE
Broadway Star Joined: 6/13/04
#50re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 5:51pmThe Sound of Music 1998 w/ Rebecca Luker(also saw her in the music man with Eric McCormic in 2001.)
*Kristen*
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#51re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 5:54pm
That I remember: Grease at my high school.
That got my into performing: Joseph at an area HS
Professionally: Blue Man Group (does that count? if not, see below)
On Broadway: The Producers
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#52re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 5:59pmANNIE in the late seventies, with Roseanne Sorrentino as Miss Thing herself(whatever happened to...?)
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#53re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 5:59pm
When I was 5 I saw 'The Phantom of the Opera' and surprisingly LOVED it lol!
Well there is a story to it also, but it is kinda stupid hehe. Anyway, my parents would play the CD non stop so I could learn the general plot line and such and I fell in love with Sarah Brightman and adored her to know end. Well, we go to the show and ofcourse she is not there because it was like 1995 and so (keep in mind I was 5) at intermission I turned to my parents and said something like this girl is good, but she is no Sarah Brightman as if I was the all knowing 5 year old god and the people behind me just like stared at me for a bit in awe that I knew something like that hehe!
Updated On: 10/12/04 at 05:59 PM
#54re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 6:06pm
I was performing in musicals before I saw my first pro performance.
Evita (first equity, very first pro performance)
CATS (first tour)
Les Miserables (first London performance)
?? (haven't seen anything on Broadway yet)
#55re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 6:10pmRENT.
"A little humility wouldn't hurt."
--Ellie, Constantine-Hellblazer, "Dangerous Habits"
defy_gravity
Stand-by Joined: 9/12/04
#56re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 6:17pmCats, in 1997. Hey, I was only 6!
We can't all come and go by bubble...
#57re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 6:36pmGuys & Dolls
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
#58re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 6:36pmthe first broadway show i saw was Grease in 1995 i was 4
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
magruder
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#59re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 7:11pm
For me, it was Raisin in 1974.
Incidentally, for the original poster, I'm pretty sure that The Magic Show played its entire run at the Cort Theatre.
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#60re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 7:14pm
About Here's Love
1. Lead played by Craig Stevens ( Peter Gunn )
2. Ed Gwynn ( Herman Munster ) did a song " The Plastic Alligator ( I believe was the title ) not on the cast album
3. Michael Bennet was in the chorus
Poster Emeritus
#61re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 7:16pm
My first musical ever was Peter Pan. I always wanted to be Captain Hook.
First Broadway was MOLM.
You are young, life has been kind to you. You will learn.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#62re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 7:16pmA four year run at the Cort? Talk about magic.....
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#63re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 7:24pmMy first Broadway musical was HIGH SPIRITS starring Beatrice Lillie and Tammy Grimes. Carol Athur (Mrs. Dom deLuise) was featured as a batty maid. I guess that was 1963 or 64.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#64re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 7:29pm
Dollypop,
Did Beatrice Lillie really take like fifty bows after "Talking To You"? :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#65re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 7:31pm
Mr. Roxy,
And don't forget that chart-buster "Look, Little Girl." :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#66re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 7:35pmI don't remember Bea Lillie taking "like fifty bows" after any number in the show. That was in 1963 and I was a Junior in high school. I've now been teaching juniors in high school for 33 years. Certain memories fade.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#67re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 7:52pm
The Paper Bag Players- I was three.
I knew I was hooked, I ran around the house singing
"What came first the chicken or the egg"
I would beg my parents to take me again.
They knew then my love for theater.
I can't wait to take my nephew to a show he is three.
Updated On: 10/12/04 at 07:52 PM
#68re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 7:56pm
First one ever-Peter Pan Tour
First Broadway Show-Beauty and the Beast
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#70re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 8:05pmLes Miserables when I was 9. quite a while ago!
#71re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 8:19pmGrease, back in the days of Rosie O'Donnell and a pre-Karen Megan Mullaly. I was...8 or 9, I think?
#72re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 8:21pmCamelot on tour with Robert Goulet as Arthur. Can't remember much, but I remember enjoying it.
#73re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 8:21pmFirst musical was Annie. Early 80's - I was around 11. Loved it, learned it, sang it all the time!! I think I still know all the words to all the songs! :)
kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#74re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 8:43pm
First ever--either The Music Man with Eddie Albert or The Sound of Music with Florence Henderson (don't remember which one I saw first).
First actually on Broadway--Applause with Lauren Bacall.
Loved 'em all.
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