Your 1st Broadway show

[secondarycharacter2]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 4:26pm

What was your 1st broadway show experience? it can either be on or off b-way.

When I was 3 years old, i went to see 42nd St. on Broadway. In all the tap numbers, i didn't believe that the taps were actually coming from the tap shoes. I thought it was pre-recorded and played as they danced.

Give me a break, i was 3. hahaha

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 4:31pm

1972. Bob Fosse's PIPPIN at the Imperial Theatre in New York City (W. 45th Street). I was 7 years old and that night began my lifelong fascination of Bob Fosse and his work.

[backwoodsbarbie]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 4:34pm

I saw Phantom of the Opera when I was 4 and I was completely mesmerized. To this day I still remember the chandelier, the masquerade, the rooftop scene, and Music of the Night in the Phantom's Lair. I have dreamed of playing the role of Christine Daae every since.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 4:35pm

The first musical I ever saw live was a community theatre production of Annie when I was 6. Around that time I remember seeing a kids' stage production of Snow White, but I'm not sure if that was before or after.

The first musical I ever saw on Broadway was the Les Miz revival (yes, I was a late bloomer).

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 4:40pm

First theatre experience was a tour of Cats in 1999 & my first Broadway show was Phantom in 2007.

[BellatrixxLestrangee]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 4:44pm

When I was two my parents took my sister and me to see Beauty and the Beast at the Kennedy Center. I don't remember it at all but my parents said that I started crying when the lights went dark but immediately stopped when the music started. My first time actually seeing something on Broadway was this January when my dad took me to see Wicked for my birthday.

[Okayfine]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 4:44pm

Beatlemania, 1978. I was 12 & we went for my sister's graduation.

[jpbran]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 4:45pm

I remember a tour stop of "Annie" when I was 9 or 10 years old. Actually in NYC though was a weekend with my parents where we saw "LIttle Shop of Horrors" one night and "A Chorus" line the next... So, I guess they were my first off-Broadway and Broadway shows officially.

I was hooked.

[matty159]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 4:45pm

My first was (don't laugh) Legs Diamond and I LOVED IT! The weekend also included Cats and Starlight Express....both of which left me nonplussed.

[Okayfine]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 4:47pm

Wow, Matty, that's SOME collection of shows to see all at once. Could you have picked any WORSE shows?

[rmusic11322]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 4:50pm

My first Broadway show was Beauty And The Beast in 2006 with Ashley Brown. She was phenomenal and her voice was fantastic. I was probably 11 or 12 and was in awe with all of the magic and special effects.

[Musiquer]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 4:54pm

Phantom, on a trip to the city in fifth grade.

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 4:59pm

My first Broadway show was Beauty and the Beast with the original cast in the summer of 1995. I was five, but I remember most of the experience, especially the first act finale. I viewed a recording of the PBS broadcast of Into the Woods practically every day when I was two. I would dance around the house singing. Good times. When I was six, I saw Phantom and Show Boat (I remember most of the songs and a few of the scenes, and I remember asking my parents about the miscegenation scene at intermission).

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[willep]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 5:04pm

My first Broadway show was Spamalot. It was the day that it wont the Tony, we met Eric Idle as he was going into the theatre, which was really exciting. Our seats were in the last row of the balcony, so we couldn't see the top half of the stage (chandelier during The Song that Goes Like This, Prince Herbert in his tower). All in all I loved it. Darlene Wilson was on as the Lady of the Lake, sadly, because Sara Ramirez was sick at that time, and Darlene was pretty awful, but it didn't ruin the show completely. At the stage door, the only people who signed were Steve Rosen and Darlene Wilson, although Tim Curry did make an appearance, he had gone out the front door but must have forgotten something so he ran down and into the stage door.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 5:09pm

My first PERFORMANCE experience: 2nd Grade, Bye Bye Birdie, I was one of the girls in Put on a Happy Face. The next year I was invited to be a solo dancer in a Christmas Play. And I was hooked.


I didn't SEE my first b'way show until High School, circa 1979. My older sister took me to see Grease. I hated it.

[once a month]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 5:09pm

The Leaf People...presented by Joe Papp who spoke beforehand, welcoming us. It was dismal! Thank God I caught A Chorus Line right after, making me a hopeless, ADDICTED theatre junkie.

[binau]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 5:19pm

Sondheim on Sondheim.

[thenewmoon]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 5:25pm

My first Broadway show was the original Les Miz. I was probably 8 or 9 at the time, and I remember being really frustrated that I couldn't follow the plot (chain gangs? prostitutes? dying children?) It was like torture! I have no idea why my folks thought it would be appropriate. Then that same weekend, we saw "The Secret Garden," which was likewise confounding because it is completely different from the book! I was so disappointed. Shortly thereafer we saw the Toronto productions of "Phantom" and "Crazy for You" and liked those MUCH better!

A side note, for reasons I will never understand, growing up, we didn't have much-- but somehow we had a bootleg copy of the "Pippin" telecast (lovingly censored by my dad) and my sister and I could recite it by heart at age 5! That would've been so amazing to have seen it in person!

[EugLoven]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 5:31pm

First Bway Tour: The Lion King in SF
First Bway Show: The Light in the Piazza in NYC

[JMPlayer6]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 5:45pm

My first Broadway show = Equus (1975)

[kooky]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 5:48pm

It was "PAJAMA GAME" with JOHN RAITT ...... I was so little and I hung over the mezz
balcony & I was totally hypnotized ..... right then & there ... the LOVE AFFAIR for theatre started !

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 5:53pm

Rent.

[byebyebaby12]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 5:55pm

First theatre experience- Guys and Dolls Regional Production
First Broadway Show- 42nd Street

[bluebubbles]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 6:16pm

Phantom of the Opera with Hugh Panaro in 2004. I turned to my dad after the show and demanded he sign me up for voice lessons the second we got home.

[Haybe]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 6:18pm

Beauty and the Beast...I was 4.

And then I became strangely obessessed with Cats when I was 6 (I'm embarrassed for myself) so I saw that.