Lets see if I can do this: They are all Broadway: PETER PAN JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT BEAUTY AND THE BEAST TITANIC FOOTLOOSE CHICAGO THE LION KING SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER THE PHANTOM OF OPERA SWING! THE DINNER PARTY RENT THE PRODUCERS URINETOWN RENT LES MISERABLES AIDA LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS WICKED =19 shows with seeing Rent twice Thoroughly Modern Mille this week and Avenue Q in about two-three weeks. I've seen a very nice amount, but when I get older, I want to go to New York as much as possible and do some sort of student rush for the shows I want to see.
I have a collection of over 3,000 Playbills dating back to 1964. Shall I list all the plays and musicals? What about opera, ballet and the symphony? Do they count?
It all started with the Sound of Music... Once on this Island, Phantom, Cats, Joseph and the Amazing, Jekyll and Hyde, Fame, Ragtime, Me and My Girl, Titanic, Bat Boy, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 1776, Rent, The Producers, My One and Only, Into the Woods, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Les Mis, LSOH, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Aida, Beauty and the Beast, 42nd Street, JCS, Hairspray, How to Succeed.., Urinetown, Dance of the Vampires, The King and I, Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma!, Showboat, Mamma Mia!, Crazy for You, The Lion King, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Rocky Horror Show...
Many many more, that I can't remember, and I can't spend any more time trying to. And you don't care that much!
Broadway Grease Footloose Annie Get Your Gun Beauty and the Beast RENT Aida 42nd st Lion King Frog and Toad Phantom Chicago Hairspray Little Shop The Producers Urintown GYPSY Millie
and I have tickets for Wicked, Ave Q, and Millie aging for then next month and 1/2. Also my mom and dad want to see LSOH now so thats another one we are gonna see soon.
So all together countion the 5 times I have seen Hairspray and the 4 times I have seen LSOH I have seen 24 shows in the past 5 years soon to be 28.
Grace: My love for you is like this scar (points to elbow) ulgy but permanent!
I'm in school right now on a break so I'm just gonna Wing (hey, whatever happened to her lol) this. I'm sure I'll end up forgetting some.
There's no way I can list them in order from first to last show...lol I seriously wouldn't remember without having the ticket stubs in front of me.
BROADWAY: Wicked Gypsy-Current revival Chicago-Revival Hollywood Arms The Women-Limited run Footloose Annie Get Your Gun-Recent revival Cats Rent Oklahoma-recent revival Aida The Lion King Beauty and the Beast Taboo Avenue Q Thoroughly Modern Millie Jekyl and Hyde Mamma Mia! The Boy From Oz Les Miserables Elaine Stritch on Broadway Bea Arthur: Just Between Friends Putting It Together Urinetown Fosse Into the Woods-recent Revival 42nd Street-current revival
OFF BROADWAY: Mondo Drama The Prince and the Pauper Temporary Help The Fantasticks Forbidden Broadway Bernadette and the Butcher of Broadway
*I've seen regional productions of: My Fair Lady West Side Story Crazy for You Annie
*I did see a Radio City Music Hall production of "The Wizard of Oz," and I saw "Riverdance"; but that was also at Radio City Music Hall (before it was on Broadway).
I had tickets to Salome the Reading, but the show I was supposed to see had been canceled for that day. I still never returned the tickets. lol
I've seen most of these shows more than once, and I know I'm forgetting some (especially in the off-broadway category), but I can't think of the rest right now.
"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~
Urinetown Millie(jan.25) the producers(march 7) wicked(feb.24) the phatom of the opera the lion king rent(repeats) mamma mia sound of mucis little shop of horrors hairspray(repeats) gypsy chicago(repeats) beauty and the beast ave q aida les miserables cats seussical taboo(gonna see it again soon) the music man footlose grease(repeats)..also my first saturday night fever(repeats) miss saigon(repeats) annie grease was my frist and the last i seen was hairspray and i think theres more too but i forgot
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
ok, i'm going to try to do this in the short amount of time I have ... not quite in chronological order, but to the best of my ability:
*runs to look at collection of theatrical memorabilia*
Off Broadway: I Love You, You're Perfect Now Change, Stomp, Pirates of Penzance West End, London: Fame Broadway: Cats Showboat POTO Beauty and the Beast The Lion King (2x) The Music Man Kiss Me, Kate The Diary of Anne Frank Jane Eyre Peter Pan 1776 Jekyll and Hyde The Sound of Music The King and I Ragtime Grease Footloose Les Miserables Aida (2x) 42nd Street Oklahoma! (2x) Mamma Mia (2x) Rent (2x) Movin' Out Chicago Urinetown Thoroughly Modern Millie Man of La Mancha Cabaret (3x) Wicked City Center Encores 10th Anniversary Bash (does that count?)
Regional: LSOH, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Pippin, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
I saw Riverdance at Radio City, and I have tickets for LSOH, Avenue Q and Taboo. I'm sure I'm forgetting some... but I don't have any more time I can spend on this. I'll update if I remember.
Les Miserables (2x) Miss Saigon Phantom of the Opera Will Rogers Follies Falsettos Tommy Blood Brothers Chicago The Scarlet Pimpernel Titanic Ragtime Jekyll and Hyde A Doll's House Rent (5x) The King and I The Fantastiks A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Marie Christine Bring in Da Noise/Bring in Da Funk Seussical Jane Eyre Aida The Lion King (2x) Thou Shalt Not Urinetown The Dinner Party Putting it Together Kiss Me Kate Forbidden Broadway The Full Monty A Christmas Carol Sunset Boulevard Victor/Victoria (2x) Big 1776 Saturday Night Fever
London: Return to the Forbidden Planet My Fair Lady Peggy Sue Got Married All You Need is Love Song of Singapore The Beautiful Game Whistle Down the Wind Les Miserables Cats Boyband Blood Brothers Grease De La Guarda Starlight Express Witches of Eastwick The New Rocky Horror Show Mamma Mia
And at least as many on tour or in regional productions. That's all I can think of for now.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Though I've only seen 3 Broadway shows (Urinetown, Dance of the Vampires and The Producers), I've seen their English versions.. Rent, Les Mis, Saigon, Cats, Millie. There really are far too many to name.. I've seen every West End musical playing at the moment except for Tonight's the Night.
Updated On: 1/15/04 at 01:25 PM
Great Thread - It would take me too long to list. I don't save playbills. If I had, I could fill a small orchestra pit. So as to participate, from the year 1975 till now, I've seen 99% of all musicals in NYC. I missed "Dream A Little Dream" this past summer. I heard Angela Gaylor was fantastic as Michelle Phillips. And I never saw Taboo-hoo which I regret. I won't be able to see it before it's unfortunate closing date.
Not to exclude all the wonderful theatre I've seen on the west coast, throughout this country and London Theatre.
The 1st show I saw on Broadway was "CoCo" starring Katherine Hepburn. I can't remember what year that was but I has to have been around 8 or 9 years old. Changed my life. And no, I'm not that old.
Broadway: Fosse Cabaret Miss Saigon (with Lea Salonga in....99 I think...) Ragtime The Lion King Annie Get Your Gun Rent 42nd Street (2x) Urinetown (4x) Kiss Me Kate The Producers (with Nathan and Matthew) Mamma Mia! The Full Monty Into the Woods Thoroughly Modern Millie (5x) Hairspray (2x) La Boheme Chicago Movin' Out Nine Aida Avenue Q Gypsy Wicked Little Shop of Horrors Wonderful Town Man of La Mancha
Off- Broadway: Forbidden Broadway The Thing About Men I am My Own Wife
Other shows in NYC: Radio City Christmas Spectacular Aida(the opera) at the Met NY String Orchestra (at Carnegie Hall)
I have also seen around probably 50 national tours in my lifetime...I'm 15 btw...my family used to have season tickets at the theatre where all the tours come through. All of the NYC shows were between March or April of 99 and November of 2003.
There's no way I can do this sequentually. I'm counting La Boheme because it's Baz Luhrmann and I can.
Broadway: The one weekend I was in NY was the weekend of the musicians' strike, so... would have seen a number of things and clearly didn't.
West End: Crazy for You Starlight Express Les Miserables (4x) My Fair Lady Anything Goes
Pre-Broadway in San Francisco: Wicked La Boheme
US Tour: Les Miserables (5x) Urinetown (2x) The Full Monty Beauty and the Beast RENT The Phantom of the Opera The Producers
Las Vegas: Mamma Mia
Los Angeles: La Boheme (4x)
Regional Equity: Bat Boy (San Jose) 1776 (Ford's Theater, DC) (2x)
I am not going to list all the other regional productions I've seen, as it would eat the board. I'm sure there are more, but I can't remember them at the moment.
'"Contrairiwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."'
~Lewis Carroll
Broadway: RENT Man of La Mancha Wicked Cabaret Avenue Q Gypsy Anna in the Tropics The Lion King Oklahoma Phantom of the Opera The Sound of Music The King and I
Off Broadway: Fame Zanna, Don't!
"I really liked the show--Wish I saw Boy's Night...Am I allowed as I am not a boy anymore:)"-duffyny1
Starlight Express Grease (Twice) RENT (Twice) Once on this Island Les Miserables Jekyll and Hyde (Twice) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Not too much, I've seen more straight plays...
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
Rent Little Shop of Horrors Cabaret Beauty and the Beast Hairspray tick, tick...BOOM! Chicago Mamma Mia The Producers The Music Man 42nd Street Grease Aint Misbehavin
Will soon be seeing Urinetown (this weekend) Wicked The Lion King
On Tour: Phantom of the Opera (twice) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Twice) Mamma Mia Annie Get Your Gun Contact 42nd Street (Current Revival) Evita Grease Showboat Cats Hairspray
BROADWAY: Cats 42nd Street (Revival) Movin' Out
Also have seen many stock/community theater shows!
Touring: Starlight express urinetown Aida 3x rent stones in his pocket lion king cathecism more..i just can't think of them right now I see every show that stops in akron and cleveland
Community theatre: not even gonna go there...wayyyyy too many
"Hold up your head. Never be afraid to shine. Viva la difference in my body and my mind. All out with loneliness Such a waste of time. Come in from the outside" ~ Taboo
I will try, though I am sure I am going to forget something.
LONDON The Phantom of the Opera (3 times) Les Miserables (Twice) Miss Saigon (Twice) Sunset Boulevard (Twice) Crazy For You Starlight Express Blood Brothers Fame Cats Grease Oliver Chicago The Witches of Eastwick Mamma Mia The Lion King
BROADWAY Beauty and the Beast Hairspray The Producers The Boy from Oz Cabaret Aida Rent
OFF BROADWAY Naked Boys Singing
Hey, I am pretty sure that i didn't forget anything after all.