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Where Were you in January 1988?

Posted: 1/8/06 at 9:11am

Where were you in January 1988?

It seems like only yesterday that the Broadway community was celebrating the final show of CATS, the spectacular Andrew Lloyd Weber creation from 1982 that became the longest running musical in Broadway history. Actually, that final performance was in September 2000.

Share your first experience.

Tell Your Phantom of the Opera Stories.

A Tribute To Phantom of the Opera: The Longest Running Musical In Broadway History

Updated On: 1/8/06 at 09:11 AM

#2

re: A Tribute To Phantom Of The Opera: The Longest Running Musical In Broadway History

Posted: 1/8/06 at 12:35pm

I was probably lying in my crib drinking from a bottle--I was 1 and 1/2 re: A Tribute To Phantom Of The Opera: The Longest Running Musical In Broadway History
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#3

re: A Tribute To Phantom Of The Opera: The Longest Running Musical In Broa

Posted: 1/8/06 at 2:02pm

I didn't even exist yet!...not until 3 years later!lol
Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat... (The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)
#7

re: A Tribute To Phantom Of The Opera: The Longest Running Musical In Broa

Posted: 1/8/06 at 6:26pm

1988 is the year I caught the theatre bug at the ripe age of 32.
I'd only seen one play before. I'd met some girl who was into the theatre and I was able to join TDF through work.

She wound up schizzing out me (literally). I saw an OffBroadway show with Laura Dern and Kyle McClaughlin (sp) followed by Lithgow in 'M Butterfly' and Amy Irving and Athol Fugard play "The Road to Mecca."

The rest is history.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#14

re: A Tribute To Phantom Of The Opera: The Longest Running Musical In Broa

Posted: 1/8/06 at 6:36pm

Probably playing Nintendo? I was only 5 at the time.

I first discovered Phantom in 1990 when a friend's mom had the cast recording on cassette tape. I was about 7 and we'd dress up and play the parts along to the tape in their basement. We would turn their old day bed into the Phantom's lair. As you can tell, I was the coolest little kid ever.

I didn't get to see it on stage until '97 or '98.
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. " --Sueleen Gay
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re: A Tribute To Phantom Of The Opera: The Longest Running Musical In Broa

Posted: 1/8/06 at 6:46pm

In January 1988, I was preparing for my second season at Cleveland's Great Lakes Theater Festival, where we were producing a modern-dress Hamlet and a new play featuring Cloris Leachman, among other great shows.

I first saw Phantom in London that same year starring Dave Willetts, Claire Moore and Michael Ball, along with productions of Kiss Me Kate, Lettice and Lovage (starring Maggie Smith), and Follies with Julia McKenzie, Millicent Martin, Daniel Massey and Eartha Kitt. I also got to hang out with Ms. Moore, and Judy Kaye. It was a great trip!!
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re: A Tribute To Phantom Of The Opera: The Longest Running Musical In Broa

Posted: 1/8/06 at 7:53pm

I was preparing for a business trip to New York in March of that year. When I arrived in NYC, a friend who was my Broadway buddy when I used to work in New York, persuaded me that I had to see LES MISERABLES if I hadn't done so...So, I did, compliments of the tickets secured by the hotel concierge re: A Tribute To Phantom Of The Opera: The Longest Running Musical In Broa...The same hotel concierge was persuading me to get tickets for PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ( which had just opened and was widely acclaimed)- but I didn't get tickets as they were priced ( off-box office prices re: A Tribute To Phantom Of The Opera: The Longest Running Musical In Broa) at the princely sum then of $ 125 each re: A Tribute To Phantom Of The Opera: The Longest Running Musical In Broa

It wasn't until 2 years later that I was able to see PHANTOM on Broadway...followed by two more occasions at the West End years later.
#20

re: A Tribute To Phantom Of The Opera: The Longest Running Musical In Broa

Posted: 1/8/06 at 8:27pm

I wasn't even a though yet, and I wasn't born until January 1989.
http://www.beintheheights.com/katnicole1 (Please click and help me win!) I chose, and my world was shaken- So what?
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler

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