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#76

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

Posted: 12/29/18 at 12:12am

OBC of My Fair Lady

OBC of Follies

and, for curiosity's sake, the first preview of Merrily We Roll Along which apparently had most of the audience walk out before the first act was over.

#77

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

Posted: 12/29/18 at 12:51am

Funny Girl OBC, Mame OBC, and the JRB Parade OBC. Honorable mentions: Titanic OBC, Ragtime OBC, Follies OBC, Secret Garden OBC, Doctor Zhivago OBC, and N2N with either Jessica Phillips or the gorgeous, late, great, Marin Mazzie.

#78

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

Posted: 12/29/18 at 8:55am

opening night for :

SWEENEY TODD...OBC

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG...OBC

GYPSY with Patti LUPONE

with one extra for good measure...MAME...OBC

Updated On: 12/29/18 at 08:55 AM

#79

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

Posted: 12/29/18 at 9:55am

They’re Playing Our Song

Liza in Chicago

I Love My Wife

All of which I have seen but would love to revisit those memories.

HUSSY POWER! ------ HUSSY POWER!

#80

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

Posted: 12/29/18 at 11:16am

Opening nights for:

Original West Side Story

Original Music Man

Hamilton at the Public

(and, if I get a fourth, Original Camelot)

#81

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

Posted: 12/29/18 at 11:37am

To join the chorus for two of my picks:

Follies (OBC)

The Glass Menagerie (OBC)

And one new one:
The Visit with Lunt and Fontanne

#82

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

Posted: 12/29/18 at 2:39pm

Since I'm so damned old, and have been going to theatre since the late 1950s (got to see Merman in HAPPY HUNTING, GYPSY, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN and DOLLY), my picks are a bit different (although I love reading the lists):

1. ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury (I had tickets, could only go to Saturday matinees, and the show closed before my May matinee came up, never got over it, and convinced Steve and Arthur to let us do an off-Broadway revival in 1992 as a three-week benefit for BroadwayCares/EquityFightsAIDS).

2. THE MUSIC MAN with Robert Preston and Barbara Cook

3. CAMELOT with Richard Burton and Julie Andrews (saw it near the end of its run, with William Squire, a Welshman like Burton, giving a wonderful carbon copy of Burton, and aging soprano Kathryn Grayson doing unnecessary runs and trills).

#83

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

Posted: 1/4/19 at 6:58pm

This is so hard but I'd probably go with:

-Hamilton OBC

-Dear Evan Hansen OBC Opening Night

-Ragtime (either OBC or revival)

you found your heart but left a part of you behind <3

#84

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

Posted: 1/5/19 at 9:12pm

I would have loved to have seen the original Show Boat for the historic opening. Second I would have marveled seeing Ethel Merman in Anything Goes and smelled how they perfumed theatres back then. The third ticket would be to see Pal Joey and Gene Kelly dancing.

#85

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 5:22am

* Thread Bump *

Fiddler on the Roof (2004 Broadway Revival with Alfred Molina as Tevye)
American Idiot (with Billie Joe Armstrong as St. Jimmy)
Beautiful (with Melissa Benoist as Carole King)

Honorable Mention:
Waitress (with Sara Bareilles as Jenna and Jason Mraz as Dr. Pomatter)

#86

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 6:07am

Legally Blonde
Hairspray
Carrie ('88)

#87

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 6:25am

1. Angela Lansbury in GYPSY
2. Natasha Richardson in CABARET
3. Patti LuPone in ANYTHING GOES

#88

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 7:59am

So many to choose from. But right now I'd say:

1. Original off-Broadway Assassins
2. Original Streetcar Named Desire (Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter Karl Malden, et al)
3. 2003 Long Day's Journey Into Night (Brian Dennehy, Vanessa Redgrave, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert Sean Leonard)

#89

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 8:04am

I'd like to see a version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch with John Cameron Mitchell, either the original run or the Broadway revival, I don't mind which.

The other two would be one of the previous versions of Hadestown, to see how it evolved over time, and The King & I with Yul Brynner.

#90

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 8:57am

Show Boat 1927 - broke the mold

Integrated songs with plot

Integrated cast on stage together

Plot dealt with racism and hard lives of African Americans

Ol’ Man River

Helen Morgan

Crazy demand for tickets after opening crashed the Telecharge web site

My Fair Lady - Love Julie

42nd Street - opening night when David Merrick announced death earlier in the day of Gower Champion

#91

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 9:03am

Phantom Of The Opera with Michael Crawford - missed seeing him in it by three weeks.

Rent with the original Broadway cast.

Fences - James Earl Jones

#92

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 9:58am

Very hard choice, but:

Hamilton at Public

Rent at NYTW

Dear Evan Hansen OBC

Honorable mentions: August: Osage County on Broadway, Chorus Line during its original run

#93

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 10:14am

Laurette Taylor in Glass Menagerie

Ruth Gordon in A Doll's House

John Gielgud in Hamlet

*****

Pearl Bailey in Dolly

Richard Kiley in Man of La Mancha

Ethel Merman in Anything Goes

#94

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 10:16am

Sweeney Todd OBC with Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou, and Victor Garber

Jesus Christ Superstar OBC with Ben Vereen

Next to Normal with Marin Mazzie and Aaron Tveit

Honorable Mention: Opening night of Hamilton at the Public

#95

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 12:20pm

Private Lives (1931) (Noel Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Laurence Olivier, Jill Esmond)

Non sibi sed patriae

#96

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 12:29pm

Barbra- opening night- Funny Girl

Original West Side Story

My Fair Lady

Long Day's Journey with Redgrave and Dennehy

#97

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 1:32pm

I'd go back in time 3 separate times and see Judy at Carnegie Hall 3 times.

#98

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 2:15pm

I couldn't settle on just three shows, so I'm dividing my answer into musicals and plays.

Musicals: Girl Crazy for Ethel Merman's Broadway debut

Porgy and Bess, OBC

On The Town, OBC

Plays: Orson Welles's Voodoo Macbeth

Death of a Salesman, OBC for Lee J. Cobb originating Willy Lowman

Streetcar Named Desire, OBC for Marlon Brando originating Sanley Kowalski

Updated On: 1/23/20 at 02:15 PM

#99

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 2:34pm

Judy - Since I got my Amazon Echo smart speaker I keep asking it to play Judy at Carnegie.

Babes in Arms Rodgers & Hart

I Wish I Were in Love Again

Where or When

My Funny Valentine

The Lady is a Tramp

The best recording of this song ever? (1967 TV Special)

Johnny One Note

But the book is supposed to be so bad that can’t be revived. And when MGM made the film they cut all five songs.

Updated On: 1/26/20 at 02:34 PM

#100

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

Posted: 1/23/20 at 2:37pm

One of the benefits of being an old geezer is that I got to see all the great shows with their original casts.

Still, I would have loved to have seen Laurette Taylor in the original GLASS MENAGERIE and Jessica Tandy in STREETCAR. My 3rd choice; to relive the opening of DOLLY! on January 16, 1964.

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

Updated On: 1/23/20 at 02:37 PM

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