Your first
Your first
#0Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:24pmWhat was the first Broadway show you ever saw? Mine was Gypsy, with the one and only Bernadette. I was blown away.
AmaraCaledonia
Stand-by Joined: 11/14/04
#1re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:24pmPhantom of the Opera <3
#2re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:25pmBeauty and the Beast
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#3re: Your first
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)
#4re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:30pmmine was cats. i was completely blown away and knew leaving the theatre that i wanted to be on the stage!
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#5re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:35pmOliver or Here's Love with Craig ( Peter Gunn ) Stevens & Fred ( Herman Munster) Gwynne with a chorus member made good Michael Bennett
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#6re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:36pmB&B, starring Kerry Butler (found the Playbill the other day so thats y i remember)
SWTaffy
Leading Actor Joined: 11/3/04
#7re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:36pmStarlight Express!! But I don't remember anything about it except the roller skates. I would say Les Mis.
#8re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:37pm
RENT.
I had just turned 14. It saved my life.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#9re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:38pmles miserables...at the age of NINE! I really didn't understand much, but I did enjoy it.
#10re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:40pm
On Broadway? Beauty In The Beast...
touring? The Music Man...
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#13re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:47pmGuys & Dolls when I was REALLY young. My parents said I liked it so much that I saw it again soon after that.
#14re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:48pmcats
Bwaychick84
Chorus Member Joined: 9/29/04
#15re: Your first
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?
#16re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:52pmTommy
#17re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 6:56pmCats first year it opened
"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
Featured Actor Joined: 10/27/04
#18re: Your first
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..." :)
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#20re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 7:10pmBeauty and the Beast. The first show I actually sat through was Grease.
#21re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 7:12pmLes Miz, 7 years ago.
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#23re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 8:06pmCats 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.
ElphieDefiesGravity
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/27/04
#24re: Your first
Posted: 11/15/04 at 8:09pmThe Fantastiks. That was off(off?)-bway, but it counts, right?
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