Your First Time — Page 2
#27
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
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
If you keep your goal in sight,
You can climb to any height.
Everybody's got the right to their dreams...
Updated On: 2/6/05 at 08:22 PM
#28
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....
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....
#29
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.
#30
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.
#31
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::
::walks sheepishly away::
#32
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.
#33
Posted: 2/6/05 at 8:36pm
beauty and the beast when i was 5 years old..... what a day
"I am unfinished- I am diminished
With or without you..."
#34
Posted: 2/6/05 at 8:38pm
Damn Yankees revival w/ Jerry Lewis-7 years old.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#35
Posted: 2/6/05 at 9:03pm
Beauty and the Beast. I was quite young, too... 6 years old.
#36
Posted: 2/6/05 at 9:42pm
Cats...don't remember how old I was.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
#38
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
#39
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...
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...
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
#40
Posted: 2/6/05 at 9:58pm
Chicago tour in 1997 with Jasmine Guy, Charlotte D'Amboise, and Obba Babatunde
"I hope you're all happy, keeping Alan off the team. Couldn't you, for once, open your minds and hearts and hear something that he couldn't see? I, for one, am glad that Alan is blind, so he can't see what, I am so sad to say, you can't hear." -Jerri Blank
#41
Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:31pm
The Fantastiks -That counts, right? It was the summer after either my fourth or fifth grade year.
"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."
Wishes come true, not free.
Wishes come true, not free.
#43
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.
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.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
#45
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!
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!
"They have never understood, and no reason that they should.
But if anybody could . . . " --SS
#46
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.
You know it and you want it... you just can't believe you've got it.
#47
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
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
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Quando omni flunkus moritati (When all else fails, play dead...)
"... chasin' the music. Trying to get home."
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#48
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.
Regional theatre: Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe in Dayton Ohio - I must have been about 6, wo it was the mid '60s.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#49
Posted: 2/7/05 at 9:23am
Cabaret Revival
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!
#50
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. 
" I don't cause commotions, I am one."
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