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Posted: 7/11/06 at 12:13am

what shows in history have opened on your birthday?
I have a weird fascination with this.

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re: shows on your birthday

Posted: 7/11/06 at 12:23am

The Only Show that I know opened on my birthday was Spamalot because we had to do a report on events for our birthdays and I was so excited because, I got to present about Spamalot

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Posted: 7/11/06 at 12:47am

West Side Story opened on my brithday in 1957.

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Posted: 7/11/06 at 12:52am

Evita did... though nothing opened on my actual day of birth.

Am I cut out to spend my time this way?

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Posted: 7/11/06 at 1:01am

The Bells
Yip Yip Yaphank
A Noble Rogue
Kat and the Kings

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 5:38am

Both The Taming of the Shrew and Kiss Me, Kate opened on my birthday

(...wait, that says nothing about me, honest)

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 11:10am

Yokel Boy in 1939 and The Unknown Soldier and His Wife in 1967.
LOL

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 11:14am

None that I know of, but Martin Short Fame Becomes me is going to open the day after my birthday.

re: shows on your birthday

Posted: 7/12/06 at 11:20am

Good Vibrations

#10

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 11:37am

is there some database we can check this?

#11

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 2:24pm

go to the
Internet Broadway Database

#12

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 2:29pm

Porgy and Bess! ....1943.

#13

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:20pm

Twelfth Night in 1940, Cyrano de Bergerac in 1953, On the Town in 1998...and Jackie Mason's Laughing Room Only in 2003, to name a few.

#14

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:25pm

West Side Story 04/27/1960
The Crucible 04/27/1972
Sweet Charity 04/27/1986
The Music Man 04/27/2000

"I'll show you a laughgasm. I'll gasm all over this stage!"
"Interesting choice"

#15

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:27pm

Beau Brummell 05/17/1890
The Return of the Vagabond 05/17/1940
Nash at Nine 05/17/1973
Murder at the Howard Johnson's 05/17/1979
The Babe 05/17/1984

How to properly use its/it's: Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...

#16

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:28pm

Hit-the-Trail-Holiday, it's the only one that lasted more than a month.

If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....

Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)

#17

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:30pm

SaraBeth, you also have The Wedding Singer.

Beau Brummell 05/17/1890
The Return of the Vagabond 05/17/1940
Nash at Nine 05/17/1973
Murder at the Howard Johnson's 05/17/1979
The Babe 05/17/1984

ThankstoPhantom, we share!

#18

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:31pm

Sweet. I just did a ibdb.com search and copy/pasted. Wedding Singer wasn't listed.

"I'll show you a laughgasm. I'll gasm all over this stage!"
"Interesting choice"

#19

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:32pm

The only one that I'm aware of (that's worth mentioning) is the original production of Cabaret (11/20/66, 22 years older than I am).

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#20

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:32pm

BJC899, I think you were born on my birthday.

#21

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:33pm

Jan 29, 1966- The original Sweet Charity with the fabulous Gwen Verdon

#22

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:35pm

Twelfth Night - 1/11/1905
Pacific Overtures - 1/11/1976
James Joyce's The Dead - 1/11/2000

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#23

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:58pm

Not many are worth mentioning, more than half are from the 1800's that didn't last more than a month so besides that the only one I could find was "Ziegfeld Follies of 1927"

#24

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 4:37pm

The Pirates of Penzance-10/10/1949
The Reluctant Debutante-10/10/1956
The Marriage of Figaro-10/10/1985
Say Goodnight, Gracie-10/10/2002

...And a lot more :)

#25

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Posted: 7/12/06 at 4:46pm

The School for Scandal 12/12/1785
La Dame aux Camelias 12/12/1905
Brighten the Corner 12/12/1945
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln 12/12/1972
The Rules of the Game 12/12/1974
Steaming 12/12/1982
Hay Fever 12/12/1985
Peter, Paul & Mary "A Holiday Celebration" 12/12/1989
Imaginary Friends 12/12/2002

aww nothing for 1979

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