Your first

[Elphaba3]

Your first#0

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:24pm

What was the first Broadway show you ever saw? Mine was Gypsy, with the one and only Bernadette. I was blown away.

[AmaraCaledonia]

re: Your first#1

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:24pm

Phantom of the Opera <3

"There's a butt naked princess, lounging in a bed, calling your name. What exactly didn't you realize? Before our wedding night, pack up some of that dried monkey meat and have the royal cartographer draw you a map of the female body, captain. Maybe then you'll be more inclined to come explore!"

[UptownGirl]

re: Your first#2

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:25pm

Beauty and the Beast

"Learn how to laugh. Learn how to love. Learn how to live. That's my style." -Follies

[FabalaCohen]

re: Your first#3

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:26pm

Mine was Phantom as well- but I saw it at the Pantages up in Toronto.

However, I just remember walking in there and feeling awed. Definitely would love to see the stage show again (but will have to live with the movie for now)

"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled." (Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)

[nychick9876]

re: Your first#4

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:30pm

mine was cats. i was completely blown away and knew leaving the theatre that i wanted to be on the stage!

sometimes i think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams- the elephant man

[Mr Roxy]

re: Your first#5

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:35pm

Oliver or Here's Love with Craig ( Peter Gunn ) Stevens & Fred ( Herman Munster) Gwynne with a chorus member made good Michael Bennett

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[Yankeefan007]

re: Your first#6

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:36pm

B&B, starring Kerry Butler (found the Playbill the other day so thats y i remember)

[SWTaffy]

re: Your first#7

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:36pm

Starlight Express!! But I don't remember anything about it except the roller skates. I would say Les Mis.

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[N0tThatGirl213]

re: Your first#8

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:37pm

RENT.

I had just turned 14. It saved my life.

"A little humility wouldn't hurt." --Ellie, Constantine-Hellblazer, "Dangerous Habits"

[Unknown User]

re: Your first#9

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:38pm

les miserables...at the age of NINE! I really didn't understand much, but I did enjoy it.

[joeyjoe]

re: Your first#10

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:40pm

On Broadway? Beauty In The Beast...

touring? The Music Man...

[kissmycookie]

re: Your first#11

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:44pm

Kiss of the Spider Woman

[Unknown User]

re: Your first#12

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:45pm

Secret Garden with Audra McDonald as the Ayah :)

[BroadwayDiva]

re: Your first#13

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:47pm

Guys & Dolls when I was REALLY young. My parents said I liked it so much that I saw it again soon after that.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me...

[adamized88]

re: Your first#14

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:48pm

cats

"Nothing is an accident, We are free to have it all, We are what we want to be, It's in ourselves to rise or fall!!" - "Fortune Favors the Brave" from Aida - the love that never died

[Bwaychick84]

re: Your first#15

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:52pm

My first show- Les Miserables tour when I was 5 (no joke... I already knew all the music at age 5)
My first show on Broadway- Beauty and the Beast when it first opened... so I guess that was 1994, right?

[munkustrap178]

re: Your first#16

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:52pm

Tommy

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[umgeoboy]

re: Your first#17

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:56pm

Cats first year it opened

"Judy Garland, Jimmy Dean, You tragedy Queen" ~ Taboo

"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q

"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical

[stacey717]

re: Your first#18

Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:57pm

Phantom of the Opera.

I was four and so proud of myself because I went just me and my dad (leaving mom and bro at my grandparents' house) and you had to be at least five to see the show :) . I have vivid memories from that night...

I remember someone drove the two of us into the city from my granparents home in New Rochelle. I also remember having really great seats in center orchestra and loving it, though I don't remember too much more from that first time besides the chandelier falling and the fire that appears onstage, along with the occasional bit of setting or characters here and there--like the mirror...
(I saw it again a few years later with my mom and brother, too, so sometimes I can't tell if certain memories are from that second performance I saw... but I know the fire, chadelier definitely are from that first time)

I definitely remember being in the foyer at my house with Music of the Night playing over the speakers here and there in the house, dancing and singing... (and I was never an extroverted kid/ wouldn't probably plan on becoming an actor--I'm the directing type with the innards of an actor, heh--... it was just always my favorite song and now has that childhood memory quality attached to it...)

They do say 'Remember your first time..." :)

[#1Elphie]

re: Your first#19

Posted: 11/15/04 at 7:04pm

The Secret Garden. I'll never forget it.

[My Fair Lady]

re: Your first#20

Posted: 11/15/04 at 7:10pm

Beauty and the Beast. The first show I actually sat through was Grease.

[mabel]

re: Your first#21

Posted: 11/15/04 at 7:12pm

Les Miz, 7 years ago.

But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)

[timote316]

re: Your first#22

Posted: 11/15/04 at 8:01pm

The Producers, last February

[VivaBohemia]

re: Your first#23

Posted: 11/15/04 at 8:06pm

Cats was the first show I ever saw when I was 7, but that was a touring cast. The first show I ever got to physically see on Broadway was Rent this past summer when I was 21 lol.

*Krissy* **Support the use of illegal wood burning stoves. Get your own metal trash can today!**

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

re: Your first#24

Posted: 11/15/04 at 8:09pm

The Fantastiks. That was off(off?)-bway, but it counts, right?

"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."

Wishes come true, not free.