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#76

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 8:46pm

Taryn,

You should have seen Robert Goulet as Lancelot. (Part he originally played when CAMELOT first opened in 1962. THAT was something! Imagine that baritone singing "If Ever I Could Leave You... "

Try and grab hold of the OBC CD and let me know what you think!

"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."

#77

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 9:58pm

Beauty and the Beast for a 3rd grade trip

#78

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:04pm

Big River at the Kennedy Center in D.C. around 1987, then Cats and Starlight Express on Broadway shortly after.

#79

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:13pm

Ah, my parents taking me to FLORADORA at the Casino, but I don't remember much about it. Although I do recall what Floradora was.

Then I remember seeing GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES in an amateur procution.

Then COMPANY on its National Tour with Julie Wilson and George Chakaris.

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC was my first musical after the theatre district had moved north of Long Acre Square.

#80

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:16pm

I've seen many little shows/musicals as a very young kid that were geared towards children, but I am going to assume you are referring to Broadway shows.

National Tour...42nd Street
Broadway...Thoroughly Modern Millie

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#81

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:16pm

Howdy Pal, :)

Common mistake. It's FlorOdora. But you're in good company. Even Theater Critics in 1900 misspelled the name! :)

"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."

#82

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:21pm

That's right, Mary-Ethel.

It is FLORODOA.

But what was it?

#83

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:35pm

Although my first musical was Chicago, my first BROADWAY musical was I Do, I Do - with Carol Lawrence and Gordon Macrae (sp).

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#84

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:36pm

Company in 1970. Wow, what a show.

#85

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:42pm

FLORODORA(1900) was a British Import.

It took place on the Florodora Island, "a small Island in the Phillipines." (There is no character named Florodora in show.)

Story involved some mish-mash about an American perfume heiress on the island.

Only reason show is remembered today is the "Tell Me Pretty Maiden" Sextette when eight STUNNING women were romanced by eight RUGGED men. Number was copied and parodied ad nausem by musicals of the day; but wealthy men literally saw the show EVERY NIGHT just for that one number. (They would time it to arrive just before number began and leave immediately thereafter.)

Because of sexette, show racked up 553 performances (AMAZING for 1900--that's like the run of CATS today) and FLORODORA became FIRST British Import to have longer run in the States than in the UK.

Trivial Note: When show was revived in 1920, Milton Berle(!) played one of the men in sextette. For some reason, I don't see him much as a rugged type (especially when he wears a dress on Texaco Star Theater!) :)

And oh yes, Marian Davies played one of the sextette women in film THE FLORODORA GIRL (1930).

"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."

Updated On: 10/12/04 at 10:42 PM

#86

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:45pm

Mary

Ethel

#87

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:47pm

Hey undiscovered...

Did you see NANETTE with Ruby Keeler?

"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."

#88

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:50pm

grease. it was fun.

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#89

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:50pm

CATS
I was seven and my seat was front row in the corner of the stage and the runway and the tunnel they came out of was right at my feet
I'll never forget that night.
It changed my life forever.

#90

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:52pm

A Chorus Line at the Shubert Theatre NYC

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#91

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:53pm

The first musical I ever saw was "The Visitor from Mars," one of those horrid little high school senior class productions that was so corny you needed to use a toothpick after watching it to get rid of the kernels. But I was an impressionable elementary school kid who just loved seeing her older brother and his friends sing and dance on stage! I remember thinking, "I can do that." Heck, anyone could do that!!!!

My first Broadway show was the OBC of A Chorus Line. What an introduction to real theater!

lc

#92

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:53pm

Mamie,

I ADORE I DO! I DO! What a tour de force for two multi-talented performers!:

"A Well Known Fact"
"I Love My Wife"
"My Cup Runneth Over"
and of course, "I Do! I Do!" :)

P.S. Your spelling is great! Just one minor change: MacRae. :)

"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."

#93

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/12/04 at 11:02pm

cats

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#94

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:12am

My first musical was Peter Pan at Jones Hall in Houston, TX. circa 1984...

My first Broadway musical was The Producers in 2001.

Did it take me long enough to get to New York?!

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#95

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:20am

First musical (operetta) I remember seeing was "The Student Prince". First Broadway musical was "The Wiz".

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#96

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:42am

music man at a dinner theatre on my eighth birthday.

Ocean Breeze soap. It's just like taking an ocean cruise only there's no boat and you don't go anywhere.

#97

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:45am

The Music Man with Dick Van Dyke and Meg Bussert - 1980

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#98

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:50am

It was October 1988. I was 13, and my parents got us tickets to "Cats". Several of my parents friends' saw it in London and encouraged them to take me to "Cats". It was a touring show in Minneapolis, and my Dad was not thrilled at seeing a show with people in cat costumes, but he liked the song "Memory". Donna Lee Marshall played "Grizabella" and she blew the roof off "Memory"... but don't tell Betty!!

From then on, every year as a family we go to one or two shows together. It's kind of a tradition. My Mom instilled the love of music in me (piano lessons, voice lessons), and so she and I have a great time.

#99

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:52am

The Wiz when it toured. LOVED IT! I was hooked at that moment.

#100

re: What was the first musical you saw?

Posted: 10/13/04 at 11:30am

PEGGY-ANN in 1927!!!!!!!

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