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Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#25Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/21/17 at 11:39am
BWAY Baby2 said: "Lauren Bacall in Woman Of The Year
Vanessa Redgrave in Long Days Journey Into Night
Sally Field in The Goat or Who Is Sylvia/- I love that play
Katherine Hepburn- Madwoman of Chaillot
Judy Garland at the Palace- my mother would not take me- she said Judy could no longer sing
Elaine Stritch- A Delicate Balance
Hepburn only did Madwoman on film...and it was a stinker, unfortunately. Even though she won a Tony, you didn't miss much with Woman of the Year. She won in a bad year for musicals. Really was nothing special. i saw everything else and they were great.
#26Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/21/17 at 1:03pm
Top of the list is Elaine Stritch (in anything) but especially live in At Liberty.
#27Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/21/17 at 1:36pm
New York:
Laurette Taylor in THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill in WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Pearl Bailey in HELLO, DOLLY!
Alexis Smith, John McMartin, Dorothy Collins, and Gene Nelson in FOLLIES
Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst in MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN
Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou in SWEENEY TODD
Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters in SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Rosemary Harris and Elaine Stritch in A DELICATE BALANCE
Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Dennehy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Robert Sean Leonard in LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
London:
Michael Redgrave, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Rosemary Harris, and Sybil Thorndike in UNCLE VANYA
Maggie Smith in THE RECRUITING OFFICER
Laurence Olivier and Geraldine McEwan in THE DANCE OF DEATH
Julia McKenzie, Bob Hoskins, Ian Charleson, and Julie Covington in GUYS AND DOLLS
Anthony Hopkins in PRAVDA
Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in MACBETH
Fiona Shaw in MEDEA
Mark Rylance in TWELFTH NIGHT
#28Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/21/17 at 5:22pm
I'm not even a huge Rent fan, but it would have been amazing to be at the opening night performance.
Dfgtoronto
Understudy Joined: 12/27/15
#30Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/21/17 at 11:09pm
I guess I've been very lucky having seen many of the wishes on this board but i wish I saw
Angela Lansbury in Dear World
Liza Minelli in Flora the Red Menace
Henry Sweet Henry cause I love the score.
Harriet Craig
Stand-by Joined: 7/15/15
#31Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/21/17 at 11:58pm
Going way back:
Fred and Adele Astaire in Lady, Be Good! or Funny Face
Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina (because my mother saw it and idolized Helen Hayes forever after, hence my avatar)
Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart in The Petrified Forest
And if my time machine would go back that far, what wouldn't I give to have seen Shakespeare play the ghost of Hamlet's father (as he is said to have done), or David Garrick in anything, just to see what the fuss was about?
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#32Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/22/17 at 10:06am
"Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Dennehy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Robert Sean Leonard in LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT"
Hoffman was awful in this production. I saw Dennehy on an obviously off night and Leonard was just OK. Still glad to have seen it because Redgrave was magnificent.
Performances I wish I'd seen? The Group Theatre doing the early Odets plays and Irwin Shaw's The Gentle People, Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie, Lee J. Cobb in Death of a Salesman, Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy in A Streetcar Named Desire, Paul Muni in Inherit The Wind, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in just about anything they did together but particularly the Cleopatra double bill, Barbara Bel Geddes and Ben Gazzara in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Edward G. Robinson and Gena Rowlands in Middle of the Night, Kim Stanley in Bus Stop, Diana Sands in anything, Alan Arkin, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson in Luv, Art Carney in The Odd Couple, Vivien Leigh and John Gielgud in Ivanov, the original productions of The Zoo Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance, James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope (which I hope Bartlett Sher directs one day at the Beaumont), Maureen Stapleton in The Gingerbread Lady, Peter Falk and Lee Grant in The Prisoner of Second Avenue.
Musicals: Gwen Verdon in anything, but especially Sweet Charity, Richard Kiley and the brilliant original company of Man of La Mancha, Alfred Drake and the brilliant original casts of Kiss Me, Kate and Kismet, Mary Martin in anything but especially South Pacific (oh, to have seen that entire cast!), the original cast of Guys and Dolls, the original cast of West Side Story, Judy Tyler in Pipe Dream (I strongly suspect hers was a major loss), Chita Rivera and Dick Van Dyke in Bye, Bye Birdie, Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews in My Fair Lady, Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet in Camelot, Robert Morse in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Barbara Cook in anything but especially She Loves Me, Barbara Harris in On A Clear Day You Can See Forever and The Apple Tree, Lotte Lenya and co. in Cabaret, Sammy Davis in Golden Boy.
#33Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/22/17 at 12:33pm
Barbra in Funny Girl
OBC of A Chorus Line
OBC of Rent
OBC of any Sondheim show, especially sunday in the park
#34Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/22/17 at 1:05pm
Growing up, I remember seeing commercials for Broadway shows and many just stayed with me throughout the years. Some shows and actors I wish I saw:
The Wiz for Stephanie Mills
A Chorus Line for Priscilla Rivera
Annie for Andrea McArdle
Evita for Patti Lupone
Dreamgirls for Jennifer Holliday
Ain't Misbehavin' for Nelle Carter
Sweeney Todd for Angela Landsbury
Into The Woods for Bernadette Peters
Sunday in the Park for Bernadette again
Kiss of the Spider Woman for Cheetah Rivera
The Boy from Oz for Hugh Jackman
In The Heights for Lin-Manuel
There are shows I've seen but wish I caught the OBC like Wicked, Book of Mormon, Chicago with Bebe, Kinky Boots with Billy Porter,
#35Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/22/17 at 1:24pm
I'm going to restrict this to shows I had a chance to see but foolishly passed up. The one that leaps to mind is Shuffle Along. I thought that it would run a long time so I gave up a chance and then it closed before I even knew what happened.
Mikeacarroll
Swing Joined: 8/20/10
#36Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/22/17 at 1:27pm
Katharine Cornell in Romeo and Juliet.
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
BWAY Baby2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/10/14
#38Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/24/17 at 11:16am
Jarethan- OOPS- you are so right about Hepburn- I meant Ccco- I could have seen that and tickets were available- just never got around to it as a kid. Anybody see it? And Judy at the Palace- one of my regrets- I should have gone without my mom- but I was too young to go myself. Ah, regrets.
hanabana
Leading Actor Joined: 5/12/12
#39Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/24/17 at 12:01pm
Here are some off the top of my hear right now:
Angela Lansbury & Len Cariou - Sweeney Todd
Robert Cuccioli & Linda Eder - Jekyll & Hyde
Alice Ripley & OBC - Next to Normal
Hugh Jackman - Boy from Oz
Cynthia Erivo - The Color Purple
Jeremy Jordan & Laura Osnes - Bonnie & Clyde
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Leslie Odom, Jr. - Hamilton
#40Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/24/17 at 12:30pm
These for me are based on actual possibility of being able to see them (so not including those that are either before my time or before I liked shows)
Davis Gaines in Phantom
Tshidi LeLoka in Lion King
Laurie Beachman in Cats
Peter Karrie in Phantom (got his U/S)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre
#41Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/24/17 at 6:54pm
The original cast of The Black Crook
Anya
And as my guilty pleasure...
Stephen Christopher Anthony or Nick Spangler as Elder McKinley
#42Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:11pm
Tallulah Bankhead in Little Foxes
Tallulah Bankhead in the very first preview of Skin of Our Teeth
Laurette Taylor in Glass Menagerie
Olivier and Gielgud switching roles in R&J
Judi Dench in R&J
Harry Hawk in Our American Cousin
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
#43Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:21pm
I say all Broadway shows, including the flops.
I would love to go back in time (If I could) and see The Rocky Horror Show, Everyday Rapture, Evita, Baby It's You!, Motown, How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, The Pajama Game, Holiday Inn, Kiss Me, Kate, Doctor Zhivago, Evil Dead, Songs for a New World, The Curious Incident, The Crucible, Fences, etc.
HELLO PEOPLE! :D
#44Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 4/26/17 at 6:14pm
Right off the top of my head, I'd say the OBC of Evita, Company and Hamilton.
#45Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 5/1/17 at 10:07am
Gloria Swanson in Butterflies Are Free (with the young David Huffman).
I could kick myself for missing this one. It played the Studebaker here in Chicago.
Theatrefanboy1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/15
#46Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 5/1/17 at 10:36am
Original Casts: Spring Awakening, Aida, Phantom, Wicked, Rent
Performer Specific: Barbra (Funny Girl), Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou (Sweeney Todd), Patti Lupone (Evita and Gypsy), Aaron Tveit (Catch Me If You Can), Carol Channing (Hello Dolly)
Original Run: Miss Saigon, Hairspray, Beauty and the Beast, Sunset
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#47Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 5/1/17 at 11:14am
Our American Cousin - April of 65
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#48Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 5/1/17 at 11:33am
Ian McKellen and Tim Curry in Amadeus
#49Performances You Wish You Had Seen
Posted: 5/1/17 at 11:38am
I would have loved to see the original-original Next to Normal quartet (Alice Ripley, Brian d'Arcy James, Jennifer Damiano, Aaron Tveit). No disrespect to J. Robert Spencer, but James's voice just fits Dan a little better in my opinion.
Also Ben Vereen as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar.
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