#26
Posted: 5/31/05 at 10:59pm
answering this question for about the 3rd time...
beauty and the beast when i was 6.
beauty and the beast when i was 6.
what was your first broadway experience? — Page 2
#27
Posted: 5/31/05 at 11:04pm
The Producers....and what a great way to start :)
Well I went to King and I when i was a kid but I do not remember :)
Well I went to King and I when i was a kid but I do not remember :)
#28
Posted: 5/31/05 at 11:06pm
First professional show: the Carousel national tour with Patrick Wilson & Jennifer Laura Thompson as Curly & Julie!! That was probably when I was about 9...I think.
First Broadway show: Kiss Me, Kate revival with BSM & Marin Mazzie!!
First Broadway show: Kiss Me, Kate revival with BSM & Marin Mazzie!!
"Isn't it nice to know a lot...and a little bit...not."
#29
Posted: 6/1/05 at 3:52am
THE KING AND I (1977 revival) - Nov 1, 1977 (Day after they recorded the cast album)
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#30
Posted: 6/1/05 at 4:01am
Mine was Guys and Dolls with Nathan Lane I think in 1992 or 1993. It was my first time in the US and my first show. It got me hooked forever. Thank you Nathan.
In my heart, I found the answered dream,
and in my soul I found the song, and in my friends
I found the magic, the love,
the moon up above- they were mine, all mine, all along..!
#31
Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:40am
Beauty And The Beast
Jesus Loves You... Everybody else thinks you're an idiot!
#32
ummmmmm...Show Boat with Rebecca Luker in 1994. I think I was 5 or 6, and it was my sister's favorite. The next day we saw Les Mis, which was my favorite. Quite a trip.
Posted: 6/1/05 at 7:00am
ummmmmm...Show Boat with Rebecca Luker in 1994. I think I was 5 or 6, and it was my sister's favorite. The next day we saw Les Mis, which was my favorite. Quite a trip.
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
#33
Posted: 6/1/05 at 7:18am
I'm going to make Stonewall feel much better about being older:
Henry Fonda in Our Town, December 26, 1969
High school drama club trip. After the performance we went backstage to meet Fonda.
Henry Fonda in Our Town, December 26, 1969
High school drama club trip. After the performance we went backstage to meet Fonda.
#34
Posted: 6/1/05 at 7:47am
Miss Saigon in 98
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
#35
Posted: 6/1/05 at 8:00am
Fiddler On The Roof '91
My first show and the whole family went. I was about 6. I remember being scared of Fumisara flying around and my grandmother yelling at the old ladies behind us for complaining that I was moving around too much. HAHA memories.
My first show and the whole family went. I was about 6. I remember being scared of Fumisara flying around and my grandmother yelling at the old ladies behind us for complaining that I was moving around too much. HAHA memories.
#36
Posted: 6/1/05 at 8:27am
My first professional theatre experience was seeing the First National Tour of CATS in Chicago during middle school (3x).
My first Broadway experience was the summer of 86 seeing the original casts of Starlight Express and Les Miserables. Seeing Les Miz with the originals was incredible and so nice to experience before it became cliche.
My first Broadway experience was the summer of 86 seeing the original casts of Starlight Express and Les Miserables. Seeing Les Miz with the originals was incredible and so nice to experience before it became cliche.
#37
Posted: 6/1/05 at 8:30am
FOOTLOOSE national tour. First city of the first tour. Starring Joe Machota. Matthew Morrison and many others were in the ensemble. I didn't save my program. 
My first stage door experience was with the RENT tour in March 2002.
My first show ON Broadway was RENT in April 2004.
My first stage door experience was with the RENT tour in March 2002.
My first show ON Broadway was RENT in April 2004.
CCM '10!
#38
Posted: 6/1/05 at 8:41am
Fiddler On The Roof with Herschel Bernardi
#39
Posted: 6/1/05 at 8:43am
I haven't read the entire thread yet but I am sure someone will kindly post links to similar threads.
Nevertheless, I don't mind repeat threads.
My first broadway show was some magic show in 1974. I don't remember much about it except I was six and I freaked at the lady being cut in half.
Some 25 years later I returned to Broadway and saw CHENO in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown followed by Beauty and the Beast.
B & B had Toni Braxton. Boy, was I shocked to see someone on Broadway who was simply AWFUL!
Nevertheless, I don't mind repeat threads.
My first broadway show was some magic show in 1974. I don't remember much about it except I was six and I freaked at the lady being cut in half.
Some 25 years later I returned to Broadway and saw CHENO in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown followed by Beauty and the Beast.
B & B had Toni Braxton. Boy, was I shocked to see someone on Broadway who was simply AWFUL!
BLAH BLAH BLAH
#40
Posted: 6/1/05 at 8:44am
The first time that I've ever heard of Broadway was when I heard that Raffi (yes, the bearded guy with the guitar) had a brief concert on Broadway. I only saw the video of that performance, but later, I heard that Disney was putting Beauty and the Beast on the Great White Way. So that was my very first Broadway show: Disney's Beauty and the Beast with the original cast (Susan Egan, Terrence Mann, Gary Beach, Tom Bosely and Burke Moses) on my birthday in...err...1994, I believe, and there were no understudies!! Ever since then, I've become a big bad bootylicious Broadway buff, baby! (What a lot of B's!)
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
#41
Posted: 6/1/05 at 8:48am
Raisin at the 46th Street Theatre in 1974.
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
#43
Posted: 6/1/05 at 10:06am
CATS. It was either 1990 or 1991.
But my first Broadway memory was seeing Mary Martin's taped version of "Peter Pan."
But my first Broadway memory was seeing Mary Martin's taped version of "Peter Pan."
"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~
#44
Posted: 6/1/05 at 10:17am
Peter Pan in 91' or 92 I belive....and I have seen 64 since then
#45
Posted: 6/1/05 at 10:29am
After reading these responses, I assume the average age for posters on this site is 14.
#46
Posted: 6/1/05 at 10:36am
Perhaps but it is nice to reminisce
#47
Posted: 6/1/05 at 10:39am
romanov - I think I singlehandedly raised that average.
#48
Posted: 6/1/05 at 10:45am
Bluemoon, I appreciate your gallantry, and I've always denied the rumor that you were in 'Our American Cousin' the night Lincoln got shot. LOL
#49
Posted: 6/1/05 at 10:47am
You're right, romanov, my understudy stepped in that night.
#50
Posted: 6/1/05 at 10:48am
first broadway show i saw was les mis in toronto when i was 6
first show i saw on broadway was rent in '97
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