What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows? — Page 2

Original Cast of West Side Story



Gypsy with Angela Lansbury



And since no one else is, I'm gonna test the limits of this time machine and go see Hamlet on the original Globe stage.

Hamilton OBC

Spamalot OBC

Les Miserables 10th Anniversary concert at Royal Albert Hall

Another vote for the original production of A Chorus Line, though I admit that I'd be torn between the original cast and that special performance they did when they became the longest running show in Broadway history and had current and former cast members sharing the stage.

I would love to see all of the Sondheim/Prince collaborations, but since we're limited to 3 tickets, I'm going to go with the show that has a permanent spot in my top 3 favorites of all time, A Little Night Music.

For the third one I would say the original production of The Glass Menagerie. Laurette Taylor's performance as Amanda is consistently ranked as one of the best ever by any American actress, and is pretty much lost to the pages of time and memory.

1. The original production of Evita with Patti Lupone. I want the time machine to have a feature where I can ask it to bring me to whichever particular performance of hers I would find to be the most thrilling and go to that one.

2. The original Broadway cast of West Side Story. It's one of my favorite shows to see and hear live, and I have an obsession with the fact there is no real footage of Chita Rivera doing the choreography in the original Broadway run. I would KILL to see it.

3. I need to see Ethel Merman in something, and as much as I'd love to go to Gypsy, I think I'd choose the first performance of Girl Crazy. I can't even imagine what it must have been like to be in that audience the first time she belted out I Got Rhythm.

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Funny Girl w/Streisand, Dreamgirls OBC, and A Chorus Line OBC.

Capeguy said: "Follies -- original

Funny Girl -- Barbra

Streetcar with Brando and Vivian Leigh

only 3! There are so many more...

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Brando never did Streetcar on stage with Vivien Leigh. Jessica Tandy was his Blanche. Vivien did star in the London production of the play (directed by Olivier) before doing the film, but not with Brando.

Only three?

The original productions of:

A Streetcar Named Desire

South Pacific

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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OBC of Into the Woods

Gypsy with Patti LuPone + Laura Benanti

Proof with Mary Louise Parker

Wicked OBC

Little Women (my daughter was Jo in a community theater production, so it's a sentimental favorite of mine, and I'd want to see Sutton)

Something prominently featuring the late, great Jerry Orbach

jetcmh said: "Since I am lucky enough to have seen many of the productions listed above, I would go back further in time to see South Pacific, original Carousel, and OBC of Glass Menagerie."

Yes! Looking through these lists make me feel old. I think the oldest one I've seen was Sandy Duncan in Peter Pan.

OBC Sunset Boulevard

OBC Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark v1.0

OLC Love Never Dies (oh, to hear Ms. Boggess sing that aria again!)

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God, I feel so old reading these lists, as I was fortunate enough to have seen so many of the productions listed. I am surprised that no one thus far has mentioned the legendary production of A Moon for the Misbegotten with Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards. It remains the single best production of a drama that I have ever seen.

Mine would be (all on opening nights...why not get the extra fun of people dressed to the nines, that much more event, etc.):

1. Bells are Ringing with Judy Holliday. First and foremost, I would have loved to see Holliday live in this. Ironically, even though I am pretty sure that I would love the production, I imagine that I would be bored in the beatnik and the Midas Touch numbers. But to see Just In Time, The Party's Over, I'm Going Back.

2. The Philadelphia Story with Katharine Hepburn.

3. My Fair Lady. Plus, I'd get the Mark Hellinger in all its glory.



Cheating...If I could go back and re-see three shows that I have already seen, it'd probably be:

1. Mame with Angela Lansbury, Beatrice Arthur and Jane Connell. The first time I saw Mame remains my single favorite performance in the theatre ever. While I have always loved the show, seeing that cast is the reason why. Since I was only 16 at he time, I always saw matinees (unless I went on the rare occasion with my parents). So, I'd want it to be an evening performance as well.

2. Nicholas Nickelby. Just such an incredible, once in a lifetime experience.

2. Either the original productional cast of Follies or the Jose Quintero production of A Moon For The Misbegotten.