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[apdarcey]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 8:20pm

broadway, ragtime.
national tour, phantom

[sweetaspie]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 8:22pm

Starlight Express - London West End
I'd forgotton about that, it was magical - I was 10

And... if i remember rightly, that prompted me to take up acting lessons and rollerblading, lol.

Thank you for this post - I've had a crummy day and i feel quite warm and happy now

xx

Updated On: 2/6/05 at 08:22 PM

[AbzugFan]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 8:23pm

Mine was "Joseph..." as well. Second to last row of the mezzanine. Then afterwards on the street we ran into Laurie Beechman and I remember her explaining to my sister and I who she was by gesturing over her head that she had been the one wearing the tall hat. Unfortunately, the excitement of seeing a Broadway star on the street was rather lost on me at the age of five.

Second show was Annie, at age 6, where we were sitting so far back that my sister and I burst into tears and my poor 13 year old brother (the only "adult" with us) had to try to calm us down. Actually, it was probably the middle of the mezzanine, but at the time it felt very far away--and wasn't that show at the Uris (now Gershwin)? I still think that's a big theatre, even as an adult....

[BEKA531]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 8:24pm

beauty and the beast when i was 5 or 6. i remember that i was so amazed when the beast turned into a human. my little mind couldn't figure out how they did that.

[Benzy92]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 8:26pm

Beauty and the Beast when it first opened with Susan Egan. Loved it so much went back not even a year later. I've been hooked since then and have now seen over 75 Broadway shows.

[Marquise]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 8:26pm

my first time was with a girl named Sonia...she lived across the hall from me, she had the cutest little...oh damn i just realized you weren't referring to that first time.

::walks sheepishly away::

[broadwaybaby77]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 8:28pm

i saw beauty and the beast with the original cast. i was 4 and a half and i remember buying a towel, which, i don't think, they no longer carry.

[seasons of love]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 8:36pm

beauty and the beast when i was 5 years old..... what a day

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 8:38pm

Damn Yankees revival w/ Jerry Lewis-7 years old.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 9:03pm

Beauty and the Beast. I was quite young, too... 6 years old.

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 9:42pm

Cats...don't remember how old I was.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 9:44pm

"A Chorus Line"
1979
Nine years old

[Songs4aNewWorld]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 9:48pm

Producers, touring cast 2004...I know a late start, but I am making up for it now Updated On: 2/6/05 at 09:48 PM

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 9:57pm

Broadway- It WILL be Rent on March 7th!! followed by Wicked, Ave Q, Forbidden Broadway, Beauty and the Beast, and another yet to be decided show!

Tour-Cats...I was obsessed w/ that show when I saw it..I hated the Rum Tum tugger...he was like the most UNsexy un cool cat ever...

[TheBoyfromChi]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 9:58pm

Chicago tour in 1997 with Jasmine Guy, Charlotte D'Amboise, and Obba Babatunde

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:31pm

The Fantastiks -That counts, right? It was the summer after either my fourth or fifth grade year.

[TheaterGeek91]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:34pm

Broadway: Jane Eyre
Tour: Annie?

[LightMyCandle125]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:39pm

hmmmm.

my first professional show had to be cats at the pantages in la. i think i was about 7.
first bway: sound of music w/ rebecca luker.

[Derek]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:51pm

Once Upon a Mattress with Sarah Jessica Parker.

[bta212]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:16pm

Musical: 1978. "On the Twentieth Century"
Drama: 1978. "Dracula"

We lived in Albany, NY at the time (dark, dark days) and my mom took me to see a show at Proctor's in Schenectady. Must have been some pathetic road show of something, and afterwards I asked her "Why do people go see shows live when they can just stay home and watch TV?"

She was so horrified that her child could ask such a question, she had me on the train to NYC within 48 hours (literally) with tickets to "20th Century" (Madeline Kahn!) and "Dracula" (Frank Langella! Edward Gorey!). Never looked back. (Never went to Proctor's again, either.)

Yeah, and mothers don't make you gay!

[Gypsy2]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:31pm

"Footloose" in bad seats with a group from my temple. I can't remember when it was, I think I might have been 11 or so. I didn't enjoy it.

[DreamFlyer22]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 9:00am

LOL! Oh my god... Proctor's, you say?? Howdy from a native Schenectady-ian! I ushered at that theater for all four years of high school (9th-12th grade)! It was a volunteer position, but I was able to see each and every big tour that came in to town... which means it ran through the spectrum from AMAZING shows to... well, sitting through three hours of barbershop music and wanting to hang myself from the chandelier.

But I definately attribute my decision to make theater my career from working there that long. I saw pretty much every national tour running between 1999-2003... which also means, for the life of me, I can't remember the very first touring show I ever saw. It's a mush of "Cats", "Les Mis", "Miss Siagon", "Steel Pier", "Footloose" and more...

Broadway First: "Les Miserables" in 1997

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 9:02am

Broadway: A Chorus Line in 1980.

Regional theatre: Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe in Dayton Ohio - I must have been about 6, wo it was the mid '60s.

[TGIF]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 9:23am

Cabaret Revival

[surefinewhatever]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 10:41am

Beauty and the Beast. . . real recently. . just started getting into broadway and tours don't come near me too often.