Understudy Joined: 3/21/18
If you had a time machine and three tickets to any show you wanted, what would you go see? I think I would see A Chorus Line OBC, Wicked with Stephanie J. Block and Kendra Kassebaum, and Great Comet with Oak.
Understudy Joined: 4/19/15
Opening night of Hamilton with the original cast, the performance of Gypsy where Patti LuPone yelled at an audience member, and the 2005 revival of Sweeney Todd.
Rent at NYTW, Wicked OBC, and NEXt TO NORMAL at Second Stage.
Stand-by Joined: 6/2/17
Ethel Merman in Gypsy
Carol Channing in the original Dolly.
Patti Lupone in Evita
Patti Lupone in Evita,
OBC Dreamgirls
OBC Follies
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/17/07
Opening night of Phantom (duh)
Original West aside Story
And I can’t decide beteeen original Oklahoma or original Rent
I would go back to late 1960's London for three shows I saw there then as as young man. "Promises, Promises" (with Betty Buckley); "Hello, Dolly!" (with Dora Bryan); and "Mame" (with Ginger Rogers).
At the time, Ginger was in her late 50's. All these many years later, I still remember how muscular her legs were.
Broadway Star Joined: 1/19/08
Great question and very difficult!
Angela Lansbury in Mame
Ethel Merman in Gypsy
OBC Follies
OBC A Chorus Line
OBC Rent
OBC Hello Dolly
1. Robert Preston in The Music Man
2. William Daniels in 1776
3. Susan Johnson in The Most Happy Fella
Cat Guy:
I saw Promises, Promises with BB as a 15 year old in August 1970; opposite an actor named Bob Sherman.
Never forgot it.
OBCs of Carrie, Chess and The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public. Partly because I had tickets for them and they closed before I could see them.
Girl Crazy - OBC opening night to see Ethel Merman's Broadway debut.
South Pacific - OBC
FOLLIES - OBC
76Trombones 2 said: "1. Robert Preston in The Music Man
2. William Daniels in 1776
3. Susan Johnson in The Most Happy Fella"
AFTER MY OWN HEART!
Not book shows, but I’d give anything to see Judy at Carnegie Hall and Streisand at The Bon Soir.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/17
Wicked OBC (who wouldn't want to see Idina Menzel 10 years before Frozen?) Aida (OBC) Never saw a production before but I love Heather Headley and Hairspray OBC. Not favorite musicals of mine but just saying
Lindsay is a goddess said: "Opening night of Hamilton with the original cast, the performance of Gypsy where Patti LuPone yelled at an audience member, and the 2005 revival of Sweeney Todd."
two out of 3. didn't see Hamilton opening
OBC South Pacific
OBC Gypsy
OBC Glass Menagerie
4. OBC Music Man
5. Legends
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/10
1. Julie Harris, Ethel Waters and Brandon De Wilde in "The Member of the Wedding".
2. "The Music Man" with the Original Broadway Cast
3. "Peter Pan" with Sandy Duncan.
Chorus Member Joined: 7/20/17
OBC South Pacific
OBC My Fair Lady
OBC Mame
Funny Girl
Dogfight (off Broadway)
Yank (off Broadway)
1. March 26, 1964 - Winter Garden Theater - Streisand's opening night in FUNNY GIRL
2. April 15, 1975 - Adelphi Theater - Jean Simmons' opening night in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
3. March 12, 1994 - Adelphi Theatre - Patti Lupone's final performance in SUNSET BOULEVARD
March and April have been landmark months in musical theater, I guess!
I managed to see both the 1986 AND 2007 Legends!, and they were both... memorable...
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
January, 1964 so I could see the OBC of HELLO, DOLLY! 3 more times.
OBC of INTO THE WOODS
A CHORUS LINE at The Public
OBC of COMPANY
Runners up:
OBC of Chess
STARLIGHT EXPRESS in London
RENT pre Broadway
OBC MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
OBC CHICAGO
OBC FOLLIES
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