#76
Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:31pm
"Beauty and the Beast" at the Palace when I was 6 with Kerry Butler, Steve Blanchard (standby), and Marc Kudisch.
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#77
Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:47pm
My Mom took me to see A CHORUS LINE in 1978, I was 13 yrs old ,a truly life changing experience for me. By the curtain call, I wask hooked on theater for the rest of my life. Thanks Mom.
#78
Posted: 7/23/10 at 2:03pm
'Cuba And His Teddy Bear' in 1986 starring Robert De Niro and Ralph Maccio.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
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#79
Posted: 7/23/10 at 2:29pm
My first show was The Phantom of the Opera in Philly in 2006. Though I was up in nose-bleed area, I love that show until this day. My first show on Broadway was a group trip with Boscovs to Wicked. We were so close and I was amazed. I was a brown noser and asked the director of the tour make everyone wait while I was at the stage door. Fun times.
#80
Posted: 7/23/10 at 3:14pm
When I was 5 or 6 I saw Annie Get Your Gun in 2001. From that moment on I was hooked on theatre! Then My mom played me then cast recording and from then on I was a huge Bernadette Peters fan! To this day she never lets me forget she was the one who suggested we wait on the TKTS and see a show and I have her to thank for liking theatre lol Thanks mom!
Remember when drama was only on the stage?
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#81
Posted: 7/23/10 at 6:26pm
Interestingly, my first show that was "on Broadway" was not a musical. It was the revival of A Streetcar Named Desire with Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange.
"The price of love is loss, but still we pay; We love anyway."
#82
Posted: 7/23/10 at 7:11pm
"The Ramarkable Mr. Pennypacker" with Burgess Meredith and Martha Scott at the Coronet (now the Eugene O'Neil). I will ver forget the thrill of the curtain going up and the stage abaze with light.
#83
Posted: 7/23/10 at 9:34pm
Beauty and the Beast, OBC, Susan Egan, Terrence Mann!! I was 4 years old!
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#84
Posted: 7/23/10 at 9:36pm
The Lion King in the summer of 2001.
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#85
Posted: 7/23/10 at 9:58pm
1st Theatrical Experience - Wizard of Oz at Casa Mañana, I was 7 and the during the tornado, the roof blew off of the house. I miss that theatre-in-the-round.
1st Tour - Mamma Mia! in Fort Worth, 2nd National cast.
1st on Broadway - Wicked - OBC
1st Tour - Mamma Mia! in Fort Worth, 2nd National cast.
1st on Broadway - Wicked - OBC
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#86
Posted: 7/23/10 at 10:37pm
When I was a teenager, my sister took me to see the original "Chicago" with Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera and Jerry Orbach. Needless to say, I was hooked for life!! I also saw Patti Lupone as "Evita". When I think about Broadway shows, this is the quality I remember as a teenager. I'm a bit saddened now as I see how far it is fallen. I guess I'm officially old.
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#87
Posted: 7/24/10 at 3:34am
Barnum in 1980 with Jim Dale and Glenn Close at age 9.
#88
Posted: 7/24/10 at 4:59am
The original 'Into the Woods' in 1989 when I was five. I'll never forget it. The witch came into the box I was sitting in and talked to me. lol. I was hooked.
#89
Posted: 7/24/10 at 5:21am
My first show was a regional production of Cats in January of 2006. I was 14. My gosh, I feel like a newbie... But I was hooked on live theatre after that. I've seen 20 shows since then. Still a small number for some people, but it's not bad for a west coaster!
Last year my school took the music groups to NYC, and we got to see Wicked. That has so far been the one and only show I've seen on Broadway. Oh how I wish I could have seen something else...
Last year my school took the music groups to NYC, and we got to see Wicked. That has so far been the one and only show I've seen on Broadway. Oh how I wish I could have seen something else...
#90
Posted: 7/24/10 at 7:23am
My first Broadway show was PETER PAN starring Mary Martin, in 1954, at the Winter Garden. But prior to that I had seen the Broadway bound FLAHOOLEY co-starring Barbara Cook, in 1951, in Philadelphia. That was the show that got me hooked.
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
#91
Posted: 7/24/10 at 8:38am
First on Broadway was the revival of "On Your Toes" with Natalia Makarova, Lara Teeter, and Christine Andreas in 1983. Absolutely wonderful.
But the first national tour I ever saw was the first national tour of "1776" with Rex Everhart, Patrick Bedford, George Hearn, Pamela Hall and Barbara Lang. That got me hooked when I was seven. Many national tours followed (The Wiz, Annie, A Chorus Line, The King & I, Grease, Oklahoma!, Ain't Misbehavin', etc.) before I moved to NY and saw my first shows on Broadway.
On Your Toes was the first of seven I saw on that same trip, back-to-back. The next night was the OBC of Cats, then 42nd Street with Orbach, Agnes of God with Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Ashely, and Dreamgirls (on the same day as Agnes, with the OBC minus Jennifer), Torch Song Trilogy with Harvey and the OBC, and the original cast of Forbidden Broadway. I was in heaven!
But the first national tour I ever saw was the first national tour of "1776" with Rex Everhart, Patrick Bedford, George Hearn, Pamela Hall and Barbara Lang. That got me hooked when I was seven. Many national tours followed (The Wiz, Annie, A Chorus Line, The King & I, Grease, Oklahoma!, Ain't Misbehavin', etc.) before I moved to NY and saw my first shows on Broadway.
On Your Toes was the first of seven I saw on that same trip, back-to-back. The next night was the OBC of Cats, then 42nd Street with Orbach, Agnes of God with Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Ashely, and Dreamgirls (on the same day as Agnes, with the OBC minus Jennifer), Torch Song Trilogy with Harvey and the OBC, and the original cast of Forbidden Broadway. I was in heaven!
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#92
Posted: 7/24/10 at 8:56am
[I'm putting this in brackets because it's slightly off-topic:
I'm interested in reading how people have no recollections of shows they've seen in their younger years. I've been taking my 5 yr old granddaughter to shows like IMAGINOCEAN and THE GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW and she seems to have a great time and recalls them well enough to talk about them over dinner and during "Show and Tell" at her pre-school. I'm glad about that.
I'll be taking her to her first full-length play, a summer stock HELLO, DOLLY!, in a few weeks and I'm eager to discover how well she responds to it.]
I'm interested in reading how people have no recollections of shows they've seen in their younger years. I've been taking my 5 yr old granddaughter to shows like IMAGINOCEAN and THE GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW and she seems to have a great time and recalls them well enough to talk about them over dinner and during "Show and Tell" at her pre-school. I'm glad about that.
I'll be taking her to her first full-length play, a summer stock HELLO, DOLLY!, in a few weeks and I'm eager to discover how well she responds to it.]
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#93
Posted: 7/26/10 at 1:36am
"After the Fall" with Peter Krause (looked good and was on TDF). That same week saw Wicked and Avenue Q (OBC)
#94
Posted: 7/26/10 at 6:51am
Mine was the most recent revival of Hair, directed by Diane Paulus, it was only my second night in NYC (the first time i'd come to the USA-- I'm from Australia)
It was one of the best nights of my life, helped by the fact that it will go down as one of the top 3 revivals of the decade. A truely moving theatrical experience...20 days and 25 shows later i saw it again on my 2nd last day in the country, Brilliant...it was also the best show i saw on Broadway...not the best in NYC however, that title is reserved for David Cromer's production of Our Town...sorry to stray off topic, but hey...it's all theatre in the end
It was one of the best nights of my life, helped by the fact that it will go down as one of the top 3 revivals of the decade. A truely moving theatrical experience...20 days and 25 shows later i saw it again on my 2nd last day in the country, Brilliant...it was also the best show i saw on Broadway...not the best in NYC however, that title is reserved for David Cromer's production of Our Town...sorry to stray off topic, but hey...it's all theatre in the end
#95
Posted: 7/26/10 at 7:03am
My first will be one of whatever is open come December. Granted, I don't even live in the Northern Hemisphere. The first show I can remember seeing was either Sound of Music or Singing in the Rain. I get the dates muddled up.
#96
Posted: 7/26/10 at 12:17pm
The Hal Prince revival of Show Boat, at the Gershwin...I was 6 or 7 at the time, and I had no idea what was going on, but I was riveted nonetheless. My family was visiting from the Midwest and we had no idea what stagedooring even was, and purely by accident we saw Rebecca Luker and Elaine Stritch walking away from the theater together. We struck up a conversation and they couldn't have been more gracious. It was such a memorable night.
#97
Posted: 7/26/10 at 2:47pm
I saw the Madison Square Garden production of The Wizard of Oz on tour when I was five. I still remember it to this day.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#98
Posted: 7/26/10 at 3:36pm
First B-Way show was the OBC of “Ragtime”! Prior to that, though, I had worked in a community theater, so I saw “How to Succeed…”, “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, “Brigadoon”, and “The King and I” among others. I still have such fond memories of those times this many years later 
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#99
Posted: 7/27/10 at 12:43am
I saw Fiddler On The Roof in last year(one of the last preformances by Tapol), I was 12.
#100
Posted: 7/27/10 at 4:30am
God, I feel old.
My first show, as a very young boy was "Gypsy" with The Merm on October 12, 1960, my sixth birthday.
Here's the playbill to prove it:
Eleven days earlier, I saw my first musical ever, the world premiere of "Camelot" at the O'Keeffe Center in Toronto. Here are my entire family's programs for that:
My first show, as a very young boy was "Gypsy" with The Merm on October 12, 1960, my sixth birthday.
Here's the playbill to prove it:
Eleven days earlier, I saw my first musical ever, the world premiere of "Camelot" at the O'Keeffe Center in Toronto. Here are my entire family's programs for that:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
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