#1
Posted: 9/3/17 at 4:00pm
interested to know which OBC's you all have seen.
Which original casts have you seen?
#2
Posted: 9/3/17 at 4:16pm
American Idiot
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (yes, I know)
Pippin revival
School of Rock
Something Rotten!
Groundhog Day
#3
Posted: 9/3/17 at 4:16pm
Between 1972 (when I saw my first show on Broadway at age 7: original cast of PIPPIN) to last month, I've lost count.
Let's just say, I've seen the original Broadway cast of every legendary show since 1972.
#4
Posted: 9/3/17 at 4:20pm
Jets743 said: "interested to know whichOBC's you all have seen."
American Idiot
Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark
Once
Kinky Boots
If/Then
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Fun Home
Hamilton (except Groff was out filming the wrap-up moviefor Looking so Andrew Rannels played King George)
An American in Paris
The Humans
The School of Rock
Aladdin
I'm 90% percent the above list is correct. When I first started coming to NYC and seeing shows, I didn't pay as much attention to OBCs. So there may have been some replacements by time I saw some shows, but the principals were original to the productions. I didn't include revivals I have seen with the OBC for those revivals.
#5
Posted: 9/3/17 at 4:51pm
I see about 80% of all shows that have opened on bway, in the last 20 years. I'd say most of them were original casts, so the list would be insanely long
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#6
Posted: 9/3/17 at 5:24pm
This is going to be long but here goes
Jersey Boys,
Wicked
9 to 5
An American in Paris
Aladdin
The Little Mermaid
Shrek
The Pirate Queen
The Addams Family
Aida
All Shook Up
Billy Elliot
The Boy from Oz
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Cinderella
Grey Gardens
Hairspray
Holiday Inn
In the Heights
Jane Eyre
Legally Blonde
The Light in the Piazza
Little Women
Next to Normal
Ragtime
Spring Awakening
Tarzan
Titanic
Young Frankenstein
#7
Posted: 9/3/17 at 5:42pm
I'll bite. Lucky for me I have my complete list of Broadway shows I've seen already typed out - so I just copy/pasted and deleted the ones that weren't the OBC. I'm not counting the original casts within particular revivals, unless they were revivals of shows that had never been on Bway before (i.e Classics-rule shows).
An Act of God
Aladdin
All the Way
Allegiance
American Idiot (except: u/s for St. Jimmy)
An American in Paris
American Psycho
Anastasia (except: Manoel Felciano instead of Ramin Karimloo)
The Audience
Beautiful
Blackbird
Book of Mormon
Bridges of Madison County
Bright Star
Bring It On
A Bronx Tale
Bullets Over Broadway
Catch Me If You Can
Cinderella
Come From Away
Constellations
Cripple of Inishmaan
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dames at Sea
Dear Evan Hansen (except: John Dossett instead of Michael Park)
Disaster!
Disgraced
Doctor Zhivago (except: Bradley Dean instead of Tam Mutu)
A Doll’s House, Part 2
Eclipsed
The Father
Finding Neverland
First Date
Fish in the Dark
Fool For Love
Fool Moon
Fully Committed
Fun Home
Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Ghetto Klown
Ghost
Hamilton
Hand to God
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
High
Honeymoon in Vegas
The Humans
If/Then
Indecent
It Shoulda Been You
King Charles III
Kinky Boots
Lady Day
The Last Ship
Matilda
Misery
The Nance
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (except: Scott Stangland & Dave Malloy instead of Josh Groban)
Newsies
Next to Normal (Except: Kyle Dean Massy instead of Aaron Tveit)
Nice Work If You Can Get It
On Your Feet! (except: Ektor Rivera instead of Josh Segarra)
Once
One Man, Two Guvnors
Oslo
Paramour
Peter and the Starcatcher (except: Matt Saldivar instead of Christian Borle)
Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
The River
Rocky
School of Rock
Seminar
Shuffle Along
Sister Act (except: Carolee Carmello instead of Vicki Clark)
Something Rotten
Soul Doctor
Spider-man (except: Matthew James Thomas instead of Reeve Carney, America Olivo instead of T.V Carpio)
Sweat
The Terms of My Surrender
Therese Raquin
This is Our Youth
Tuck Everlasting
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (except: Julie White instead of Sigourney Weaver)
The Visit
Waitress
War Paint
Wolf Hall: Parts 1 and 2
#8
Posted: 9/3/17 at 6:44pm
Aladdin
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Something Rotten!
AN Act of God
Hand to God
King Charles III
An American in Paris
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
On Your Feet
If/Then
Fun Home
Waitress
Spring Awakening (Revival)
A Doll's House Part 2
Dear Evan Hansen
A Bronx Tale
The Color Purple (Revival)
Come From Away
Blackbird
Bright Star
Disaster!
Fiddler on the Roof (2015 Revival)
Dames at Sea
Misery
School of Rock
The Father
Finding Neverland
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Prince of Broadway
Airline Highway
Heisenberg
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
Amazing Grace
War Paint
American Psycho
The Audience
Eclipsed
The Gin Game (2015 Revival)
Shuffle Along
Indecent
It Shoulda Been You
The Humans
Therese Raquin
Noises Off (2015 Revival)
On the 20th Century (2014 Revival)
Anastasia
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Oslo
Groundhog Day
Skylight
The Elephant Man (2014 Revival)
Sweat
Falsettos (2016 Revival)
Bandstand
CATS (Revival, with Leona Lewis)
China Doll
The Present
The Play That Goes Wrong
Fully Committed
The Visit (Roger Rees was out that night though)
Oh, Hello
Sylvia
She Loves Me (2016 Revival)
Sunday in the Park with George (2017 Revival)
1984
Old Times (2015 Revival)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2016 Revival)
The Front Page (2016 Revival)
Cirque du Soleil: Paramour
On the Town (recent Revival)
#10
Posted: 9/3/17 at 7:15pm
Aladdin
Cats Revival - 2016
If/Then
Legally Blonde
Newsies
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
#11
Posted: 9/3/17 at 7:58pm
groundhog day (except taylor iman jones as rita)
annie (revival)
falsettos
“6 AM. The sky glows. Somewhere a bird chirps. I want to shoot it.” ~ Jonathan Larson, Tick...Tick..BOOM
#12
Posted: 9/3/17 at 8:05pm
ONLY LISTING SHOWS THAT HAVE/HAD REPLACEMENTS
Pippin revival
Matilda
Little Mermaid
Great Comet
If/Then
Mary Poppins
Hamilton
Waitress
Newises
Billy Elliot
Shrek
School of Rock
How To Succeed revival
Cabaret 2014 revival
Spring Awakening revival
Hand To God
Dear Evan Hansen
You Cant Take It With You
Fun Home
The Addams Family
#13
Posted: 9/3/17 at 8:10pm
If/then had replacements?
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
#14
Posted: 9/3/17 at 8:47pm
The following original casts I've been able to see (for the most part) are..
Jersey Boys
Billy Elliot
The Little Mermaid
Catch Me If You Can
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Aladdin
Something Rotten!
Hamilton
Shuffle Along...
#15
Posted: 9/3/17 at 9:34pm
Great Comet
Les Misérables (2nd Revival)
Fun Home
The Play That Goes Wrong
The Color Purple
Spring Awakening (Revival)
Misery
She Loves Me
Waitress
Something Rotten!
School of Rock
Curious Incident
Miss Saigon (Revival)
#16
Posted: 9/3/17 at 9:43pm
I've been fortunate to catch the OBC in several shows: On Your Feet, American Psycho, Shuffle Along, Dear Evan Hansen, The Great Comet, A Bronx Tale, Amelie, War Paint, Bandstand and revival OBC in The King and I, The Color Purple, Hello Dolly and Miss Saigon. But the one I was damned if I didn't get to see was Hamilton, and paid a pretty penny to fulfill that desire. It was when the filming of the OBC happened in June of last year. On my 4th trip to the show, my heart was filled with joy to watch it with the same cast recording artist I listened to for so long.
Updated On: 9/4/17 at 09:43 PM
#17
Posted: 9/3/17 at 10:09pm
I'm gonna be seeing my first ever OBC in Dear Evan Hansen later this month!
Edit: Well, I actually saw the original revival cast of Miss Saigon but I was talking about an actual original cast
Updated On: 9/3/17 at 10:09 PM
#18
Posted: 9/3/17 at 10:16pm
Some of the BEST OBC's:
Guys and Dolls 1992 revival (my first B'way -- can you imagine?)
The Secret Garden
Avenue Q
Hair revival (2009)
Fun Home
The Great Comet
Dear Evan Hansen
Groundhog Day
Hello Dolly! revival
#19
Posted: 9/3/17 at 11:04pm
Anastasia- Everyone from the obc was there except someone from the ensemble.
Hello Dolly revival- Unfortunately, Gavin was out when I saw the show, so I saw his understudy. He was good though, and it was a great show. All of the obc was there regardless.
#20
Posted: 9/3/17 at 11:19pm
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hand to God
An American in Paris
Fun Home
Something Rotten!
Hamilton
Allegiance
School of Rock
Eclipsed
Bright Star
Waitress
Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
A Bronx Tale
Dear Evan Hansen
Come From Away
The Play That Goes Wrong
Groundhog Day
Indecent
Anastasia
Bandstand
A Doll's House, Part 2
I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but I can't really count that on this list, because Christian Borle was out. No disrespect to his understudy (who was fantastic), but I didn't really see it with the original cast.
Ditto with Kinky Boots when I saw it in late 2013 (Billy Porter was out).
#21
Posted: 9/3/17 at 11:21pm
The Little Mermaid
9 to 5
Next to Normal
Priscilla,Queen of the Desert
Memphis
Curtains
The People In The Picture
Ghost
Jekyll and Hyde
Misery
Allegiance
Waitress
American Psycho
Bright Star
Eclipsed
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#22
Posted: 9/4/17 at 1:30am
A lot! But here are some favorites...
Robeson (pre Broadway. Was titled PAUL ROBESON on Broadway)
Platinum
The Wiz
Dracula
Sweeney Todd
Spring Awakening (The Atlantic)
Caroline or Change (OBC)
If/Then
The Color Purple (original and revival)
Shuffle Along
BENT
A Doll's House Pt. 2
The Other Place
Come From Away
American Psycho
Nevermore...
Bright Star
War Paint
The Visit
The History Boys
Wicked
Drowsey Chaperone
FOLLIES (Most recent revival)
Sweet Charity (last revival)
How to Succeed...(Radcliffe)
RENT (Revival)
BARE (Original and revival)
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
Updated On: 9/4/17 at 01:30 AM
#23
Posted: 9/4/17 at 2:10am
Wow! Living in California I don't get too many chances to see shows on Broadway, but I saw the original cast of Curtains. Yeah that's all
#24
Posted: 9/4/17 at 12:48pm
I started my theater-going in 1963, so I can honestly say: I MAY BE OLD BUT I GOT TO SEE ALL THE GREAT SHOWS.
A few:
Hello, Dolly!
Fiddler on the Roof
Sweet Charity
Equus
Amadeus
Funny Girl
The Shadow Box
MAME
Man of La Mancha
Virginia Woolf (matinee cast with Stretch)
Purlie
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#25
Posted: 9/4/17 at 3:53pm
Hair (revival)
Billy Elliot
Shrek
The Book of Mormon
Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
Anything Goes (revival)
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Kinky Boots
Matilda
Pippin (revival)
Annie (revival)
Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Les Miserables (revival)
Bullets Over Broadway
The Bridges of Madison County
Rocky
If/Then
Newsies
Cabaret (revival)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (revival)
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Aladdin
On The Town (revival)
On the Twentieth Century (revival)
The King and I (revival)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Finding Neverland
An American In Paris
Fun Home
Hand to God
Something Rotten!
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Spring Awakening (revival)
Amazing Grace
Dames at Sea (revival)
Therese Raquin
Fool for Love
Allegiance
On Your Feet!
King Charles III
A View From the Bridge (revival)
Old Times (revival)
Misery
The Color Purple (revival)
School of Rock
Fiddler on the Roof (revival)
China Doll
Noises Off (revival)
Our Mother’s Brief Affair
Blackbird (revival)
The Humans
Hughie (revival)
Disaster!
She Loves Me (revival)
Eclipsed
The Crucible (revival)
Bright Star
Shuffle Along
Waitress
Tuck Everlasting
American Pyshco
Paramour
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (revival)
Fully Committed
The Father
An Act of God
Hamilton
Cats (revival)
Heisenberg
The Cherry Orchard (revival)
Falsettos (revival)
Oh, Hello
Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
Holiday Inn
The Front Page (revival)
Dear Evan Hansen
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (revival)
In Transit
The Encounter
A Bronx Tale
The Present (revival)
Sunset Boulevard (revival)
Significant Other
Sunday in the Park with George (revival)
Miss Saigon (revival)
The Glass Menagerie (revival)
Hello, Dolly! (revival)
Groundhog Day
Amelie
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Oslo
Indecent
Come From Away
War Paint
Bandstand
Anastasia
Six Degrees of Separation (revival)
Sweat
A Doll’s House, Part 2
The Little Foxes
1984
Marvin’s Room (revival)
The Terms of My Surrender
Prince of Broadway
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