Your FIRST Broadway Show...- Page 3

[Starlight]

Posted: 8/8/03 at 8:47pm

Mine was Starlight Express on tour when I was eight. Hence the reason for the screen name.:)

First show on Broadway -- The King and I in '97...I was 16 and in New York for the first time singing at Carnegie with my choir. Since then I've been back every chance I get and see as many shows as I can afford while I'm there. :)

[Buddha]

Posted: 8/8/03 at 10:14pm

Purlie Victorious was the first musical I had ever seen! I must have been about nine or ten at the time. Sherman Hemsley's performance is etched in my mind for life!

Posted: 8/15/03 at 12:30pm

My first BROADWAY show was A CHORUS LINE.
My first Musical was GODSPELL

[GottaGimmick]

Posted: 8/15/03 at 12:32pm

CATS and I loved it!!!

[lensman55]

Posted: 8/15/03 at 2:43pm

My first "New York" show was "Godspell," but that was off-Broadway at the time. I'd have to say my first Broadway show was "The Magic Show" with Doug Henning!

[Lorelai]

Posted: 8/15/03 at 3:36pm

it was either peter pan or me and my girl......but me and my girl had more of an effect on me for some reason. one clear memory i have of that show is (at the start of the show) when there are a bunch of people in a car and the wheels start turning like the car is moving and they are singing a song. i don't remember the song, i just remember thinking how neat that was....

[MisterRussell]

Posted: 8/15/03 at 3:49pm

#1: EVITA with LuPone, Patinkin & Gunton

#2: SWEENEY TODD with Lansbury & Cariou

[Bwaybabie]

Posted: 8/15/03 at 3:59pm

God...it seems like Cats was the first show of like half the people who posted. Well, it was mine too. In retrospect, I realize it was far, far from a great show, but I was 13 and it enthralled me then. I sat on the first row of the balcony and I remember the cats dancing on the railings right in front of my eyes...Liz Callaway belting Memory...

I am such a geek!

[QueenS]

Posted: 8/15/03 at 5:36pm

My first Bway show was a non-musical flop called "A Little Family Business." Its only positve point was introducing me to the marvelous Angela Lansbury, who did her best to make such drab material worthy of her remarkable stage presence.

It's funny looking back, because we lamented having shelled out top dollar for our seats. $45 for center orchestra.

Posted: 8/15/03 at 5:37pm

wow, mr russel, lucky those were your two first shows!!!!!!!!! Updated On: 8/15/03 at 05:37 PM

[PennyLou]

Posted: 8/15/03 at 7:07pm

My first show was Grease it was the 13th birthday present. I loved it then and from the moment it started I have been hooked on theater and haven't stopped performing in local theater and going to see as many Broadway show as I can!

[bwaybaby2]

Posted: 8/15/03 at 11:02pm

hi everyone! i'm new here :) anyway, to reply to the post, my first show on Broadway was Guys and Dolls when i was 7 in 1992. i think my first show was Bye Bye Birdie.

[SONDHEIM8]

Posted: 8/16/03 at 2:01am

My first New York Broadway show was a musical production of TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA with Raul Julia and Clifton Davis at the St. James Theater in 1972. I'll never forget it!

My first show was a touring company of FIORELLO in Los Angeles. I was hooked!








LINK: Tracy, you look beautiful behind bars!

TRACY: It must be the low-watt institutional lighting!

Posted: 8/17/03 at 12:57pm

Sweeney Todd with Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou when I was 16. Saw it three times. It was a blessing and a curse... nothing I've seen since has ever compared to that experience.

[TEACHEROFTHEATER]

Posted: 8/17/03 at 3:11pm

i think i will forever remember my first six Broadway shows:

in order of my seeing them--

Hello Dolly with Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway
(during the day, my mom took me to the movies to see Streisand in Funny Girl..quite a day... the movie Funny Girl and my first Broadway show at night....oh yes.........then dinner at Mama Leone's)

Plaza Suite with Peggy Cass and Don Porter

Fiddler on the Roof with Paul Lipson and Peg Murray

Promises Promises with Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara

Forty Karats with Zsa Zsa Gabor and Tom Poston

Applause with Lauren Bacall

after the first six my memory gets a little hazy:)

[ShineOn]

Posted: 8/17/03 at 7:58pm

Beauty and the Beast opened in 1994... I was 10. Billy, you must have been about seven.

My first Broadway show was Cats when I was five. I don't count that though. I consider my first Broadway production to be "Chicago" when I was 12 because it's the first show I saw when I was old enough to experience the true meaning of live theatre. I don't remember anything about Cats, really, but "Chicago" pretty much changed my life. Growing up, I always wanted to be a movie musical star (yeah, thanks to all those people in my life who never really informed me that they no longer EXIST). "Chicago" was what made me realize that Broadway was my goal... not movie musicals (ha, because like that could have happened anyway).

[onceadancer2]

Posted: 8/18/03 at 9:39am

Well, I was 6, the year was 1927, and the show was Rodgers and Hart's PEGGY-ANN. Helen Ford headed the cast and my father played the clarinet in the orchestra pit.

Miriam

[skingdom]

Posted: 8/19/03 at 3:34am

I can't remember whether Les Miz or The Secret Garden was my first show. Anyway, I was eight and asked my dad at intermission if we could leave to go to the video arcade!!
What an idiot. Luckily we stayed, but for some reason I just wasn't interested. Now of course seeing shows is one of life's most exciting ventures.

[Kicks8567]

Posted: 8/19/03 at 11:14am

My first Broadway show was "Big" in 1996 and since then, I have been to over 30 more.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 8/19/03 at 8:42pm

my first broadway show was joseph nd the amazing technicolor dreamcoat!!! i saw it in chicago with Donny Osmond as joseph WOW wut a great show!! haha i even remember donny osmond stopped the whole show cuz his voice was sooo dry!!! hahah so he stopped the orchestra and said "wait i cant do this" and some1 from the wings gav him a cup of water and they started again hahahaha i still remember that moment to this day!!!!! ~Pc~

[Hello Gorgeous]

Posted: 8/19/03 at 8:50pm

OHHH you saw Joseph with Donny Osmond my mom would be so jealous!!

[MusicMan]

Posted: 8/19/03 at 10:32pm

The first show I saw in my early teens was THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON. My parents bought the tickets for my birthday. Good conservative Roman Catholics that they were, they had no idea the last line of the play was, "Say cunnilingus, Coach." Probably was a good thing.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 8/20/03 at 11:33am

haha yup donny osmond in joseph was realli good hahahah (i dont mean 2 rub it in ;D) hahah aiite ~pc~

[TTL]

Posted: 8/21/03 at 12:52am

My first Broadway show was the Revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. I was 8 years old, and that was when I met Mindy Franzese Wild. She was Mindy Franzese then.....a graduate of my HS and a dear friend of mine. I remember the cast being excellent! Michael Damian and Kellie Rabke as the leads. You can catch them on the Revival Recording! I think there duo was better than Mr. Donny Osmond and Maria Friedman (VIDEO) although I like Maria's work in other shows such as Witches of Eastwick.

[musicaltheatreman]

Posted: 8/21/03 at 5:16pm

i have seen many touring production of broadway musicals over 50, but my 1st actual show that i saw on broadway was dance of the vampires. it would ahve been somthing eles but that was the only show on the tkts booth that i had not seen.

my 1st show was the sound of music. this was the tour with maria osmand