What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?- Page 2
What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
#25What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/28/18 at 8:45pm
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
#26What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/28/18 at 8:47pm
1) Gypsy with Angela Lansbury
2) Cabaret with Natasha Richardson
3) Evita OBC
#27What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/28/18 at 9:16pm
uncageg said: "OBC of INTO THE WOODS
A CHORUS LINE at The Public
OBC of COMPANY
Runners up:
OBC of Chess
STATLIGHT EXPRESS in London
RENT pre Broadway
Saw all of these. Starlight was SOO much better in London!
Company was thrilling
Rent NYTW was hot!
kaykordeath
Stand-by Joined: 4/14/17
#28What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/28/18 at 9:20pm
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.
#29What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/28/18 at 9:23pm
Follies -- original
Funny Girl -- Barbra
Streetcar with Brando and Vivian Leigh
only 3! There are so many more...
AllThatJazz2
Broadway Star Joined: 6/15/17
#30What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/28/18 at 9:40pm
Hamilton OBC
Spamalot OBC
Les Miserables 10th Anniversary concert at Royal Albert Hall
Christopher Lippolt
Swing Joined: 2/8/13
#31What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/28/18 at 9:42pm
1 - original cast of A Chorus Line
2-original cast of Funny Girl
3 - some BOb Fosse choreography done with original cast.
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#32What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/28/18 at 10:07pm
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.
#33What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/28/18 at 10:08pm
Christopher Lippolt said: "3 - some BOb Fosse choreography done with original cast. "
I may have to edit my list.....
#34What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/28/18 at 10:28pm
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.
PhantomOfFleetStreet
Chorus Member Joined: 2/17/18
#35What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/29/18 at 12:13am
1. The Elephant Man starring David Bowie
2. Sweeney Todd OBC
3. Next to Normal OBC
Honorable Mentions: Lazarus at NYTW, Much Ado About Nothing with David Tennant and Catherine Tate, and Hedwig & The Angry Inch with JCM (original off-broadway run).
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#36What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/29/18 at 12:23am
Capeguy said: "Follies -- original
Funny Girl -- Barbra
Streetcar with Brando and Vivian Leigh
only 3! There are so many more...
"
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.
#37What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/29/18 at 12:24am
Who needs a time machine?!
- Spongebob
- Escape To Margaritaville
- Carousel
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#38What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/29/18 at 12:26am
Only three?
The original productions of:
A Streetcar Named Desire
South Pacific
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
#39What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/29/18 at 12:27am
1993 Carousel London
Company 1970
Donna Murphy in The King and I
Michael Cerveris in Tommy
#40What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/29/18 at 2:46am
OBC of Into the Woods
Gypsy with Patti LuPone + Laura Benanti
Proof with Mary Louise Parker
BroadwayRox3588
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/16
#41What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/29/18 at 3:02am
Ragtime OBC
Grey Gardens
2015 Fiddler on the Roof revival
GoblinKing2
Understudy Joined: 10/24/15
#42What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/29/18 at 7:26am
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
Swing Joined: 10/22/15
#43What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/29/18 at 9:02am
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.
#44What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/29/18 at 9:34am
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.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#45What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/29/18 at 9:50am
obc: GLASS MENAGERIE, THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING, MY FAIR LADY
#46What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/29/18 at 10:00am
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!)
"Michael Riedel...The Perez Hilton of the New York Theatre scene"
- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#47What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/29/18 at 10:06am
Interesting seeing how many original Broadway casts/productions people are listing I have seen and several times (DREAMGIRLS, SWEENEY TODD, EVITA, etc.). Also, many on people's lists survive in excellent bootlegs so they CAN be seen, so to speak. The ones on my list are shows that weren't archived (Lincoln Center didn't start till the early 70s) so they only survive in people's memories and their abridged Original Broadway Cast Recordings.
SWEET CHARITY (1966 - original Broadway cast)
FUNNY GIRL (1964 - original Broadway cast)
BYE BYE BIRDIE (1960 - original Broadway Cast)
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#48What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/29/18 at 10:34am
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.
Rainah
Broadway Star Joined: 11/24/16
#49What would you see if you had a time machine and tickets to 3 shows?
Posted: 3/29/18 at 10:39am
Hamilton at the public
Next to Normal obc
and oooh I like someone's point about there being no time limits, I want to see the original production of Oedipus Rex, back in ancient greece. Love greek theatre.
Videos