You Are There--THE OPENING NIGHT OF...?

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You Are There--THE OPENING NIGHT OF...?

Posted: 7/10/04 at 3:36pm

If you could go back in time to any Opening Night of any ONE Broadway show (straight play or musical), which would it be and why?

"Only one to a custahmah," please.

(Hey, it's Saturday afternoon and I'm in the office.
Go figure.)

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 3:54pm

I would love to see the opening night of Brooklyn.

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 3:58pm

And I would love to see the opening of The Play What I Wrote!

Meg

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 4:03pm

Sorry, I cant pick just one: I would love to go to Wicked, BFO, hairspray, Nine (revival), Avenue Q, and the Producers. Cant just pick one! =D

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 4:06pm

Taboooooooooo!!
I was there opening preview night and it was really awesome cause everyone was dressed up or had 80's clothes on.
But I would have loved to be there for the official opening when all the celebrities were there and the atmosphere was prob. crazy! :)

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 4:08pm

Anyone Can Whistle. Because I love the show, and by the end, I would have the entire theater to myself.

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 4:09pm

As much as I love my Barbra I would love to see opening night of My Fair Lady with Julie Andrews.

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 4:10pm

Simple. Gypsy with Ethel.

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 4:11pm

Follies

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 4:25pm

Gypsy with Ethel (or maybe Can-Can to see Gwen Verdon's famous opening night showstopper).

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 4:25pm

CARRIE with the critics

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 4:36pm

A Chorus Line.

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 4:41pm

I remember seeing "The Gin Game" when it held its pre-Broadway tryout in Boston and thinking, "This is going to win the Pulitzer." I would have enjoyed being in the NY opening night audience to see history being made. Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn were magic. What a privilege to have seen them together.

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 4:56pm

Phantom - absolutely.

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 4:57pm

Original production of MY FAIR LADY.

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 4:57pm

Hairspray or RENT

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 5:07pm

Dame Edna Royal Tour but I was there opening night so:
Frogs!

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 5:09pm

I shouldve been at Hairsprays opening.

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 5:10pm

I would have liked to been to the opening night of Forbidden Broadway 23 years ago.
It was past my bedtime.

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 5:14pm

My Fair Lady with Julie Andrews! I cannot even imagine how amazing that would be.

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 5:19pm

Though I don't care for the show too much, the opening night of Rent off-Broadway would have been such an experience.

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 5:44pm

Wow. Seriously torn here, between ANYONE CAN WHISTLE and CARRIE. I have a real soft spot for CARRIE, TTTT: I have recordings of both the B'way and London casts, and underneath all the absurd orchestrations and incomprehensibly bad dance music, there's the nugget of a decent little show.

Hmm.

CARRIE, I think. Just to see the cardboard scenery.

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 6:02pm

I'm with Craig. Ethel Merman in the first "Gypsy".

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 6:14pm

hmm SO many...but if I must choose, I guess The Producers and Sweeney Todd.

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Posted: 7/10/04 at 6:31pm

I'd also have loved to be in the audience for the openng night of "Girl Crazy" in 1930 -- Ethel Merman sang "I Got Rhythm," held a single note for the entire last verse, got a standing ovation and became a star overnight.

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"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney