the show that got you hooked — Page 4

I guess technically it would have to be "Wizard of Oz" the movie. I probably watched it everyday when I was a toddler. But the theatre production that got me hooked was Phantom.

~Rosalynn

The show that got me interested in musical theatre was the touring production of Beauty and The Beast. I saw it at the Kennedy Center when I was around 11 or 12, and it blew me away.

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Gospel and R&B led my family to Dreamgirls, and that's pretty much where we stayed. :>
But I'll never forget when the touring company of Chicago came to D.C. when I was high school. All the theatre kids were talking about it ("Yo, that's Lilith!"). I was drawn to the dark sexiness of it, I always associated musicals with "cheese" up until that point.

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"West Side Story". Of course I had seen the odd musical before that, but I purchased WSS on tape on a whim one day (it was cheap) and listened to it and listened to it and listened to it some more.

The show now proberly wouldn't rank Top 10 for me (I have discovered so many brilliant shows over the years it will be next to impossible to do a Top 10 list that wouldn't be revised daily because I had forgotten a show or increased the rating of another). Anyway, it may not be Top 10, but it will proberly always be my number one sentimental show.

Ever since I remember, I've enjoyed musicals. When I was six years old, I came home from school one day and my mom had rented every single Rodgers and Hammerstein movie musical they had at the video store, along with Singin' in the Rain, Hello Dolly! and Show Boat. I watched a few, and I liked them, but I didn't love them. I saw a lot of musicals when I was younger, but never the one that got me hooked.

Then, when I was in sixth grade, I saw the movie version of Chicago and I was hooked. The movie was so vibrant- I had never seen a movie like it before. The movie made me even more interested in theater than I already was, but I was more interested in acting in movies as a career than Broadway.

December '04 I saw my first Broadway show. It truly made me appreciate the musical as an art form and its the only thing I want to do know. It was Wicked. I understand that there are other musicals besides Wicked- it isn't my favorite musical or anything, but I was going through a period of depression at the time when I saw it, and for the first time, there was a heroine that I could actually relate to, who wasn't a typical ingenue. I wanted to go back the next day and see it again. It was one of the hilights in my life.

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So totally random, but Fame in Español... haha. It was a touring company that went around when I used to live in Venezuela, and basically it was the same show that they have here, only in Spanish. I just remember the quality of the production being amazing, and that I fell in love with the show. Even though it's kind of a crap show, I love it because it's the show that made me want to be in theatre.

Funny story - So I misunderstood what "Can't Keep it Down" meant, since I was like six, so I thought it was about making noise, as in "Ah, I make so much noise because I'm partying all the time." So I would sing it loudly in public, and in front of family ALL the time, but in reality, the song is not so much about noise.

titanic was my first broadway show- loved it.

then a year later I went back and saw ragtime with the OBC. and that's when I was hooked for the rest of my life.

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my parents took me to see Annie and that was it. Next was probably Les Mis or Phantom... I knew after those shows I loved Broadway and I wanted to become an actress

PBS' broadcast of "Into The Woods."

I became obsessed with Phantom at like 7 and learned every word and acted it out for people and for no one in my bedroom. That show made me love musicals and want to be in them.

I happened to see the cast of Hairspray perform "You Can't Stop The Beat" at the Tony's years ago, and that, in my mind, is the song I heard that got me interested in Broadway. From there, I went and looked up what this 'Hairspray' thing was, and got instantly hooked to EVERYTHING Broadway.

But on the same note, I was introduced in 7th grade to Rent (that was 5 years ago). I heard "Tango: Maureen" and "La Vie Boheme", and was interested, but not enough to get me to be a Broadway junkie.

TheaterAddict7652 -- It's sad that you have to be so defensive about "Wicked"! As much as some of us (me as well) get annoyed at people who only like "Wicked," we have to remember there are people like you (and me) who like the show, but who aren't limited to seeing Broadway as Wickedville or something like that (forgive me). I'm glad the show brought you through tough times. I know a few people myself who used Elphaba as a role model during times of depression, and I think that's one of the greatest things about the show.

42nd Street tour. It was an amazing feeling to be inside the theater. My first cast album was the year before, Beauty and the Beast, and since then I had been collecting more albums. But 42nd Street was the first show I saw and I remember just being wowed by the tap dancing. I was 15 years old. Too bad I didn't "discover" Broadway at an earlier age.

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