What was the first show you ever saw?
What was the first show you ever saw?
#0What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 3:25pmHi, I was just wondering what's the first show everyone saw, and how did you like it. For me it was ANNIE, and I totally fell in love with musicals from that moment on.
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Updated On: 11/7/03 at 03:25 PM
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#1re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 3:29pm
First actual SHOW...The Fantasticks. I was 7. Memorized by it.
First Broadway show...Peter Pan. I was 8. I cut school and went with my dad to the Wednesday matinee :)
Show that made me realize that Broadway was just...WOW...Showboat. I was 13.
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#2re: re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 3:32pmPater Pan with Cathy Rigby when I was a tot.... it is SOOOOO sad that she hasn't moved on. lol. She's in denial. lol
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#3re: re: re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 3:33pmI totally agree...she said in an interview that her daughter once told her, "Mommy, when I grow up, I want to be a boy, like you!" Um...okay? Is that supposed to be cute?
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#4re: re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 3:33pmfirst show EVER was a children's theater production of Charlotte's Web in Detroit when in (i think) 1988 when i was 8. first Broadway show was a saturday matinee of The Music Man in 2001 when I was 21. Altho, I try to forget that I saw The Music Man, so I tell people my first Broadway show was Follies (which I saw Saturday evening right after Music Man. It was Joan Roberts final peformance in the show. Met her afterwards & talked with her for a bit--what a thrill!!)
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#5re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 3:36pmAppropriately...JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY
#6re: re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 3:38pmThe very first show that I can remember seeing is "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" at Music Theater of Wichita when I was 7 or 8. The first show I saw on Broadway was "Les Miserables" this past spring when I was 17.
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Posted: 11/7/03 at 3:40pm
first actual show that i can remember was a high school production of the king and i.
first ny show was faust at la mama and they had nekkid peoples.
first broadway was 42nd st. with jerry orbach.
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#8re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 4:12pmEgad ... that had to be at least a hundred years ago. Can't think that far back! But, 1st Bway show was Beatlemania.
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#9re: re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 5:02pm
The first live show I remember seeing (doesn't necessarily mean it was the first show I saw) was "The Wizard of Oz" at Radio City Music Hall.
The first show I ever saw was Mary Martin's "Peter Pan" on tape. It made me fall in love with theatre. 
The first movie musical I remember seeing is "Annie", followed shortly after by "Hello, Dolly!" I was 4 when I saw both.
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#10re: re: re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 5:03pm
Theatrebaby...
I saw that "Oz" tour.. It was gawd awful if I remember right... all of the dialogue and music was prerecorded....
#11re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 5:12pm
The first show I ever saw (on Broadway) was Fiddler on the Roof (although I don't remember too much of it)
#12re: re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 5:19pmThe first show I saw, was about 2 yrs ago, when I saw Beauty and the Beast. I have so far seen 21 shows since.
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#13re: re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 5:20pmThe first show I saw was Hello Dolly(I think). First broadway show-Kiss me Kate or Music Man-2001. I can't remember; I saw them a day apart.
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#15re: re: re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 5:29pmThe first show I ever saw was a community theatre production of The Music Man, my first Broadway show was Phantom.
#16re: re: re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 5:29pmLOL Honestly, I don't remember that Oz thing very well. I just remember sitting like 4th row Orchestra and having a giant house flying over my head. I must have been about 7 or 8 years old.
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Posted: 11/7/03 at 5:31pm
Tour: The Wizard of Oz w/ Mickey Rooney and Eartha Kitt
Broadway: Into the Woods Revival
High School: Into the Woods (IT WAS SO HORRIBLE! Seriously, I hope Sondheim puts out a clause not letting High Schooler's put it on. They never do it justice)
Community Theater: Damn Yankees
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Posted: 11/7/03 at 5:32pmI was the same age as well... a huge Arena tour thing.. it wasn't really a "theatre piece"... I remember Glinda had butterfly wing and there was an article about it in PEOPLE magazine
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#19re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 6:33pm
"The Phantom of the Opera" when I was eight.
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#21re: re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 6:37pmThe first Broadway show I ever say was HIGH SPIRITS with Beatrice Lillie and Tammy Grimes. I'd saved nickles and dime for months to buy the ticket.
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#22re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 6:45pm
The first live musical I saw (when I was 15 about a million years ago) was The Desert Song in the West End. If I saw it now I would probably fall about laughing - it would seem SO corny. But I fell in love with musical theatre after seeing it and soon became hooked and it became my passion - first as a spectator, later as a writer.
The first musical I saw on Broadway was Sweeney Todd in 1979 - and that was FANTASTIC.
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#23re: re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 8:04pmfirst show i saw was joseph and the amazing... with donny osmond in Chicago and the 1st broadway show was Les Miz =D
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#24re: re: re: What was the first show you ever saw?
Posted: 11/7/03 at 8:35pm
My first show ever...hmm, I think it might have been the King & I. I saw Music Man and South Pacific when I was pretty young too.
My first Broadway show was Cats.
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