shows on your birthday
shows on your birthday
#0shows on your birthday
Posted: 7/11/06 at 12:13am
what shows in history have opened on your birthday?
I have a weird fascination with this.
I'll Start - Into the Woods Revival, Hot Feet and La Bohem
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
Salad_Fingers85
Stand-by Joined: 8/30/05
#1re: 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
billygoatgirl300
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/04
#2re: shows on your birthday
Posted: 7/11/06 at 12:47amWest Side Story opened on my brithday in 1957.
The towel waving reminded me of a Per?nist rally. I kept chanting "Evita!" whenever they'd pan to the crowds. - SM2
DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#3re: shows on your birthday
Posted: 7/11/06 at 12:52amEvita did... though nothing opened on my actual day of birth.
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
#4re: shows on your birthday
Posted: 7/11/06 at 1:01am
The Bells
Yip Yip Yaphank
A Noble Rogue
Kat and the Kings
lfae
Leading Actor Joined: 7/27/05
#5re: shows on your birthday
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)
Bdwy24
Leading Actor Joined: 8/17/05
#6re: shows on your birthday
Posted: 7/12/06 at 11:10am
Yokel Boy in 1939 and The Unknown Soldier and His Wife in 1967.
LOL
#7re: shows on your birthday
Posted: 7/12/06 at 11:14amNone that I know of, but Martin Short Fame Becomes me is going to open the day after my birthday.
WSS2
Featured Actor Joined: 5/15/03
ActingAndy
Stand-by Joined: 6/20/06
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
BJC899
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/04
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#12re: shows on your birthday
Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:20pmTwelfth 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.
#13re: shows on your birthday
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"
"Interesting choice"
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#14re: shows on your birthday
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...
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#15re: shows on your birthday
Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:28pmHit-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)
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)
#16re: shows on your birthday
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!
#17re: shows on your birthday
Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:31pmSweet. 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"
"Interesting choice"
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#18re: shows on your birthday
Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:32pmThe 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).
"Who is Stephen Sondheim?" -roninjoey
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#19re: shows on your birthday
Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:32pmBJC899, I think you were born on my birthday.
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)
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)
#20re: shows on your birthday
Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:33pmJan 29, 1966- The original Sweet Charity with the fabulous Gwen Verdon
#21re: shows on your birthday
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
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#22re: shows on your birthday
Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:58pmNot 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"
elphieisperky
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/05
#23re: shows on your birthday
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 :)
#24re: shows on your birthday
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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