Your First Broadway Show — Page 4

Thanks TheaterNerd. Love that photo and it brings back memories!

Beauty and the Beast - October 22nd 2000. Andrea McCardle was Belle, Steven Blanchard was the Beast, and Patrick Page was Lumiere. I remember saying to my aunt that I wanted to do what Belle and the Beast did, and I was absolutely mesmerized.

I still have the Playbill and it's something I treasure considering Beauty and the Beast is not only one of my favorite movies and musicals, it was the first of both for me.

Updated On: 7/18/16 at 12:31 PM

Miss Saigon, Wednesday matinee, June 5th, 1991.

Mine was Aspects of Love at the Broadhurst in 1990. I was a junior in high school and an ALW nut at the time. (I still like a lot of his work more than many others here.) The London cast recording had been out for a long time, and I had it thoroughly memorized, so I noticed every little change from London to Broadway (there weren't that many).

Although Aspects is now below the top tier in my list of favorite musicals, I still admire the score a great deal (book and lyrics, not so much!) and find the original orchestrations to be incredibly gorgeous. The OLCR is a really vivid, almost totally complete document of the show, but I still hope we'll get another recording someday. (The only other one I'm aware of is a Japanese highlights recording.)

On Broadway was June 1983. I believe the shows were in order 42d Street, Dreamgirls and Nine.

Les Mis at the Broadway Theatre 1988

My first Broadway show was West Side Story, 17th December 2010 at the Palace Theatre. It was my 21st birthday and i wanted to see a show and that was the cheapest we could find at such short notice. All i remember is that we had nosebleed seats and that i really enjoyed it. It was my first trip to NY (im from the UK) and since then ive been back 6 times, 5 of those in the last 18 months!

Beauty and the Beast, November 1996. Loved it so much, saw it in London the following year!

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Showboat revival. 10 years old. Completely enthralled and hooked.

Mine was FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at the Broadway Theater back in 1971 I was 13--on my first trip to the Big Apple with my grandmother, who took me to see, over the years , THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG, SUGAR, A CHORUS LINE (just saw Baayork Lee's production at Pace Univesity this spring), TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, ANNIE, BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE....and the list goes on after my college years! Thanks Gram!

Mine was the civil war, I don't really remember that much about it other then I went with my mom. I think we picked that one cause I've always had an interest in history and even though I live here I didn't have an interest in theatre until 2010. I know we got the tickets at the tkts booth and I know I have the playbill somewhere in the house but I haven't really taken the time to search for it.

Updated On: 7/18/16 at 05:07 PM

Oh my, the original BW production of GREASE, and as a young kid, it wasn't quite what I was expecting, as it was for it's day, a bit raw and vulgar. I loved every minute of it.

Times Square was a different world back then, full of strip shows and X rated (does that still exist?) skin flick movie theatres.

Mine was Ben Franklin in Paris, which I really wanted to love. Even at 14, I could tell it was just not right; but I was so excited to be there, I didn't really acknowledge to myself that it wasn't a masterpiece until I saw Hello Dolly, Funny Girl and High Spirits over the next X months. Too long ago to remember exactly how long between seeing Ben and the other three.

Hello Dolly was total magic, goosebumps, etc. High Spirits was fun. Funny Girl was a little disappointing because, even at 15, I could tell she was going through the motions, changing lyrics, e.g., I talk this way because I'm French????? Somewhere in there, I am pretty sure I saw Drat! the Cat, which I also loved.