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What was the first musical you saw?
evwicked77
Understudy Joined: 9/18/04
#100re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 11:31amPhantom of the Opera in Montreal in 1993.
CurtainUp2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/8/04
#101re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 11:34am1776 with my Junior High School history class. And I've been hooked ever since.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
Updated On: 10/13/04 at 11:34 AM
#102re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:05pmthe phantom of the opera , january 1990.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#103re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:10pm
Two posts from Miriam this week - this is cause for GREAT rejoicing!!! 
junglered
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#104re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:24pmMy first musical was "The Music Man" with Peter Marshall in the 1970s. I remember going backstage with my family to get his autograph.
laactress
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/7/04
#105re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:29pm42nd Street when I was 23 months old, ALMOST 2 and I sat through the whole thing and didn't move! I have been to over 300 shows since then. I am definitly a theater baby!
It started with a sipmle idea, collecting one paper clip for every life lost, the feelings that connect us...are greater than those that divide us!
Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#106re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:47pm
Mine was The Magic Show too.
I can't remember if it was Doug Henning or Lance Burton, but I know it was the second one, and it was at the Cort Theatre.
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#107re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:49pm
Bea Lillie taking "fifty bows" was part of the "Talking To You" number in HIGH SPIRITS.
At the end of the "official" ending of song, Lillie took bow AFTER bow--each one in the style of a different Broadway Diva--Ethel Barrymore, Tallulah Bankhead, Gertrude Lawrence, etc.
That sure is one UNIQUE moment in musical theater history and is probably why the only reason HIGH SPIRITS is still remembered today.
By the way, the 1964 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical was a VERY TOUGH pick: Carol Channing in HELLO, DOLLY!; Barbra Streisand in FUNNY GIRL and Beatrice Lillie in HIGH SPIRITS. Award went to Channing.
"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."
nycdncr
Leading Actor Joined: 7/25/04
#108re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:51pm
don't remember.....it was some high school musical.
the first musical i saw on broadway was FOSSE.
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day that says, "I will try again tomorrow."
#109re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:54pmJesus Christ Superstar - Original Broadway Cast
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#110re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 12:56pm
Hi Once...,
Did you know that PEGGY-ANN was the FIRST (and maybe ONLY) musical based on ANOTHER musical--TILLIE'S NIGHTMARE(1910)which had a big hit song "Heaven Will Protect The Working Girl."
By the way, the finale of PEGGY-ANN was a dance performed in semi-darkness.
"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."
Fair 2 Middlin
Broadway Star Joined: 8/9/04
#111re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 1:06pm
Annie w/ Shelley Bruce (McArdle's replacement)
followed by:
Peter Pan
Pirates of Penzance
Chorus line
after that, I have no idea.
Thank you so much Fair. You are such a "Bewitching" HUSSY! -(DAME 12/2)
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#112re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 1:08pm
Marc,
Was Ben Vereen as terrific as he sounds on recording?
"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."
#113re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 1:11pmPIPPIN. I'm sure I some regional stuff before, but my first show on Broadway was Pippin...
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#114re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 1:18pmBroadway - A Chorus Line, Sept., 1975.
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#115re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 1:53pm
WOW DOUGLAS!
You saw Donna McKechnie, Priscilla Lopez, Carole Bishop, Wayne Cilento, Sammy Williams, etc. etc. etc.!
I WOULD DIE A HAPPY MAN IF I'D SAW THAT PERFORMANCE! :)
"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."
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#116re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 2:02pmI saw it as well.
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Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#117re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 2:16pm
Who remembers that insulting, trivial, insane, non-entertainment waste of negatives (have I used enough negative adjectives?) :) film version of A CHORUS LINE?
My "favorite" part: Turning "What I Did About Love" from love song to theater to love song to human.
The Supreme Court should sentence murderers to sit through film 50 times--it would work better than ANY death penalty! :)
"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."
#118re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 4:35pm
Broadway: Phantom
before that just a bunch of community theatre and national tours
"as good or quite likely better than any other show with killer rabbits and a legless knight opening on Broadway this season."
-Eric Idle on SPAMALOT
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#119re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 4:37pmBeauty & The Beast...Ive always LOVED the movie and the show was almost better! It was a thrilling experience!
bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#120re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 6:26pm
A regional production of Me and My Girl.
My first Broadway show was Little Shop of Horrors... very disappointing. But I saw Avenue Q, Wicked, Hairspray and Gypsy too, so the rest of the shows were great!
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Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#121re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 6:28pm
movie: west side story
broadway: dreamgirls
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#122re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 6:30pm
Yes, Mary_Ethel, that's who I saw - and as Margo has pointed out to Robbie before, when you set a bar that high, it can be treacherous going from there on out
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#123re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 7:10pm
bj...
I loved ME AND MY GIRL... especially "The Lambert Walk"! Too bad nobody seems to be doing it anymore--maybe because role of Bill Snibson is so EXHAUSTING and therefore hard to cast?
"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."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#124re: What was the first musical you saw?
Posted: 10/13/04 at 7:12pm
And by the way, I try not to think about the Chorus Line movie, much less talk about it!
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