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What was the first musical you saw?
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#75re: 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!
#76re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 9:58pmBeauty and the Beast for a 3rd grade trip
aurora2
Swing Joined: 9/28/04
#77re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:04pmBig River at the Kennedy Center in D.C. around 1987, then Cats and Starlight Express on Broadway shortly after.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#78re: 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.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#79re: 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
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#80re: 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! :)
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#81re: 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?
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#82re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:35pmAlthough my first musical was Chicago, my first BROADWAY musical was I Do, I Do - with Carol Lawrence and Gordon Macrae (sp).
A click for life.
mamie4 5/14/03
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#83re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:36pm
Company in 1970. Wow, what a show. 
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#84re: 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).
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#86re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:47pm
Hey undiscovered...
Did you see NANETTE with Ruby Keeler?
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#87re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:50pmgrease. it was fun.
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#88re: 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.
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#89re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:52pmA Chorus Line at the Shubert Theatre NYC
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
jmnpublications
Broadway Star Joined: 4/2/04
#90re: 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
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#91re: 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. :)
#92re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/12/04 at 11:02pmcats
#93re: 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?!
"Dreams, I've lived within my dreams now it seems I've awakened and they're real, pinch and feel. If one day I walk upon this stage from these wings and play underneath this dome, and if I sing with all my heart, I'll be home"
#94re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:20amFirst musical (operetta) I remember seeing was "The Student Prince". First Broadway musical was "The Wiz".
fae
Stand-by Joined: 7/25/04
#95re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:42ammusic man at a dinner theatre on my eighth birthday.
The Ninth Show
Understudy Joined: 9/25/04
#96re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:45amThe Music Man with Dick Van Dyke and Meg Bussert - 1980
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#97re: 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.
sweetiedarlinmia
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/04
#98re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:52amThe Wiz when it toured. LOVED IT! I was hooked at that moment.
onceadancer2
Leading Actor Joined: 5/22/03
#99re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 11:30amPEGGY-ANN in 1927!!!!!!!
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