the show that got you hooked

so there you are, innocent as pie, watching some odd musical movie or taking your seat in the 3rd row of the balcony. and by the end of the show, you can't believe how hooked you've been.

i've loved musicals since i was about 8...i got mary poppins on VHS for christmas and i was obsessed. then that summer, i saw "grease" and thought stockard channing was the most perfect human being EVER.

i have liked them for a while now, but all my loves came from movies. i think it was seeing "the rocky horror show" 2 and a half years ago, done locally, that really opened me up, and i realized that it was what i wanted to do with my life. since then i have seen 2 shows in NYC on Broadway (hey i'm canadian and have only been once!) and in a little under 5 weeks i am going back and seeing "Dirty Rotten Scoundrals."

my favorite musical is into the woods though.

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Aida.

It was the first time I saw a show that I truly loved, and loved so much that I remember leaving the theatre and saying to my mother "I want to turn right back around, go back in, and see it again." I had never experienced that before.

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Updated On: 3/6/06 at 01:42 PM

BIG

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A combination of Les Miserables and the world premiere of Jane Eyre. Both occured in 1995 when I was 10 years old.

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RENT.

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Well...mine came in more of a secession of events that happened over a period of a few months. I had always liked performing myself. I sang in church as a child and was in all of the church plays. I also took theatre arts my sophomore year in high school for fun. However, what got me hooked on musical theatre was:

1) I was cast in a very successful community theatre production of The Sound of Music. I was in the chorus, but through this show I met my future voice teacher. I also was given a lot of compliments on my voice and encouragement by some of the lead actors I looked up to that made me excited that I might could suceed at performing.

2) I went and saw the national tour of Les Miserables.

3) In the next show I was cast as Hero in Forum at the same theatre.

4) My high school chorus went to NYC and saw three Broadway musicals.

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My general love for musicals began with "Les Miserables". I saw it when I was 9 years old (this was back in 1989, so, yes I'm 26 years old). I'm not a big fan of that show now, but it's what sparked my love for theater in the first place.

Les Misérables. My borther got the music in 1982 when I was 4. I got hooked. Still listen to it 24 years later !

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I had really enjoyed a lot of shows, but my first all out obsession was Rent. I listened to the OBCR almost 24/7 for a while.

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