You Knew It Was Coming: What/ How Many Shows Did YOU See This Year?

[jagfkb]

Lets start the ball rolling:
1- Hairspray (1/4)
2- Shrek (1/1
3- Marey Poppins (1/1
4- Soul of Shaolin (1/30)
5- Billy Elliot (2/3)
6- August: Osage County (3/10)
7- 9 to 5 (4/
8- West Side Story (5/30)
9- The Norman Conquests: Table Manners (6/13)
10- The Norman Conquests: Living Together (6/13)
11- Next to Normal (6/13)
12- West Side Story (6/30)
13- The Fantasticks (7/4)
14- 9 to 5 (7/9)
15- The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden (7/14)
16- 9 to 5 (8/14)
17- The Little Mermaid (8/30)
18- Avenue Q (8/30)
19- Bye Bye Birdie (9/12)
20- Hair (9/12)
21- Man of La Mancha (Skyline Theatre Company (10/)
22- Man of La Mancha (Skyline Theatre Company (10/9))
23- Man of La Mancha (Skyline Theatre Company (10/10))
24- Man of La Mancha (Skyline Theatre Company (10/11))
25- Ragtime (10/30)
26- The Phantom of the Opera (10/30)
27- Next to Normal (11/3)
28- Hair (11/24)
29- In the Next Room (11/2
30- A Little Night Music (11/2
31- On the Town (Paper Mill Playhouse (12/3))

31, a little lower than last year, but not too shabby. Might even be seeing a show myself today, so make that 32. Now it's on to you.

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Brighton Beach Memoirs
Mary Poppins
Gypsy
Finian's Rainbow
Blithe Spirit
Next to Normal (2)
God of Carnage
Avenue Q (2)
Billy Elliot
August: Osage County
9 to 5
White Christmas
In The Heights (I have seen the show 14 times so Im guessing around 7 this year)
Hair (11, 12 next Wednesday)
Bye Bye Birdie
West Side Story (2)
Exit the King
Chicago
Boeing Boeing
Burn the Floor
The Norman Conquests: Table Manners
The Norman Conquests: Living Together
The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden
Ragtime (3)
Shrek (2)
Wishful Drinking
South Pacific

[once a month]

12-09-09 The Royal Family
11-25-09 A Little Night Music
11-22-09 Radio City Christmas Spectacular
05-29-09 The 39 Steps
04-25-09 God of Carnage
04-24-09 9 to 5
04-04-09 Exit the King, revival
04-04-09 Next to Normal
04-03-09 Happiness
03-28-09 Finianâ??s Rainbow
03-27-09 Hair, revival
03-23-09 Legends
03-22-09 Blithe Spirit, revival
03-14-09 Hedda Gabler, revival
02-22-09 August: Osage County
02-21-09 Story of My Life
02-08-09 Speed the Plow revival
02-07-09 Music in the Air
02-07-09 Garden of Earthly Delights revival

[Gary Indiana]

On Broadway:

1. American Plan
2. Hedda Gabler
3. Guys & Dolls
4. Hair (6 times)
5. Next to Normal (4 times)
6. Chicago
7. Blithe Spirit
8. Rock of Ages
9. Joe Turner
10. West Side Story
11. 9 to 5
12. Phantom of the Opera
13. Little Mermaid
14. In the Heights
15. reasons to be pretty
16. Accent on Youth
17. Mary Stuart
18. Norman Conquests - Table Manners
19. Norman Conquests - Round and Round the Garden
20. Billy Elliot
21. The Philanthropist
22. Waiting for Godot
23. Mamma Mia!
24. Jersey Boys
25. South Pacific
26. God of Carnage
27. Story of My Life
28. Memphis
29. Wishful Drinking
30. Steady Rain
31. The Royal Family
32. Bye Bye Birdie (3 times)
33. Fela!
34. Finian's Rainbow
35. A Little Night Music
36. Irena's Vow (3 times)
37. August: Osage County
38. Avenue Q
39. After Miss Julie
40. In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
41. I'm seeing Ragtime on Wednesday

Off and off-off Broadway:

1. Dreamgirls
2. The 8 Reindeer Monologues and 7 Santas
3. Why Torture is Wrong
4. Pound
5. Groundswell
6. Tin Pan Alley Rag
7. The Wiz
8. Ruined
9. Rooms
10. Krapp, 39
11. Father Comes Home From the Wars
12. The Fantastiks
13. Fuerzabruta
14. The Chimes
15. Tender
16. We Declare You a Terrorist
17. The Whisper House (Powerhouse Theater @ Vassar)

[ACL2006]

1. Spamalot
2. Hair(3x)
3. In The Heights
4. West Side Story(2x)
5. Chicago(2x)
6. Ragtime
7. Avenue Q
8. Jersey Boys


PLANNED FOR NEXT YEAR
1. Memphis
2. Ragtime
3. The Addams Family
4. Promises, Promises
5. La Cage aux Folles

[quizking101]

My list is short...

1) 9 to 5 (7/5)
2) Rock Of Ages (9/13)
3) Next To Normal (11/2)

Next Year:

HAIR (2/3)
God Of Carnage (front row, final perf) (2/2
Finian's Rainbow (?)
The Addams Family (?)
La Cage Aux Folles (?)

[AwesomeDanny]

I haven't seen to much this year...

Rock of Ages
Billy Elliot
In the Heights
The Wedding Singer (a really bad community production)
Spelling Bee (a really good regional production)
A Christmas Carol (a pretty good regional production)

[Mark_E]

For the record, my dates are the British way of having the day before the month.

Broadway:

In The Heights 16/08/2009
Rock Of Ages 17/08/2009
9 to 5 18/08/2009
Hair 19/08/2009
Shrek 19/08/2009
The Toxic Avenger 20/08/2009
Altar Boyz 21/08/2009
Next To Normal 22/08/2009
Phantom of the Opera 22/08/2009

West End:

La Cage Aux Folles 12/02/2009
Grease 14/02/2009
Sound of Music 14/02/2009
Priscilla: Queen of the Desert 03/04/2009
La Cage Aux Folles 04/04/2009
Sister Act 26/05/2009
Spring Awakening 27/05/2009
Sister Act 05/09/2009
The Shawshank Redemption 10/09/2009
Avenue Q 12/09/2009
Sister Act 16/09/2009
Catwalk Confidential 19/09/2009
La Cage Aux Folles 24/09/2009
Prick Up Your Ears 26/09/2009
An Inspector Calls 03/10/2009
Priscilla: Queen of the Desert 03/10/2009
Oliver 10/10/2009
The Ratpack Live From Las Vegas 15/10/2009
My Real War: 1914-? 17/10/2009
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice 21/10/2009
Speaking in Tongues 24/10/2009
The Turn of the Screw 24/10/2009
Hairspray 26/10/2009
Jersey Boys 04/11/2009
Calendar Girls 05/11/2009
War Horse 09/11/2009
Priscilla: Queen of the Desert 10/11/2009
Blood Brothers 11/11/2009
Prick Up Your Ears 15/11/2009
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice 21/11/2009
Arturo Brachetti: Change 21/11/2009
Legally Blonde 05/12/2009
Wicked 09/12/2009
Potted Potter 09/12/2009
La Cage Aux Folles 10/12/2009
Legally Blonde 12/12/2009 (Mat)
Legally Blonde 12/12/2009 (Eve)

Other London:

Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith) 12/02/2009
Forbidden Broadway (Menier Chocolate Factory) 05/09/2009
Life is a Dream (Donmar Warehouse) 08/10/2009
First Lady Suite (Union Theatre) 10/10/2009
Zombie Prom (Landor Theatre) 07/11/2009
A Man of No Importance (Union Theatre) 28/11/2009
Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic) 14/12/2009

London National Theatre:
The Pitmen Painters 19/09/2009
Mother Courage and Her Children 17/10/2009
The Power of Yes 25/10/2009
Nation 20/11/2009
Our Class 05/12/2009
The Habit of Art 10/12/2009

UK TOUR:
Blood Brothers 20/01/2009
Cabaret 27/01/2009
West Side Story 10/02/2009
Gethsemane 10/03/2009
For King and Country 18/03/2009
The Witches of Eastwick 19/03/2009
All The Fun of the Fair 23/03/2009
Chicago 30/03/2009
Little shop of Horrors 13/04/2009
Jolson & Co: Musical 16/04/2009
Spongebob 22/04/2009
Fame 29/04/2009
Joseph 04/05/2009
Brief Encounter 13/05/2009
Singin' in the Rain 16/05/2009
We Will Rock You 16/06/2009
We Will Rock You 18/06/2009
Evita 01/07/2009
Quadrophenia 09/07/2009
Dreamboats and Petticoats 14/07/2009
Evita 29/10/2009


Still have to see Mamma Mia! International Tour on the 29th!

Total: 81!!! 14 more than I had seen in every other year of my life combined. Moving to London in September really helped!!!

[Elke]

This has been a record breaking year for me... 49 performances. Broadway or Off-Broadway unless otherwise noted:

2009-01-30: Pal Joey
2009-01-31: Speed-the-Plow
2009-01-31: Jersey Boys
2009-02-01: Uncle Vanya
2009-02-01: Mamma Mia
2009-02-02: Goodbye And Good Luck (York Theatre reading)
2009-02-02: Forbidden Broadway
2009-02-03: South Pacific
2009-02-04: The Story Of My Life
2009-02-04: In The Heights
2009-02-21: Sunset Boulevard (London)
2009-02-21: Avenue Q (London)
2009-02-26: West Side Story
2009-02-27: Happiness
2009-02-28: South Pacific
2009-02-28: Shrek The Musical
2009-03-01: God Of Carnage
2009-03-01: Broadway Jukebox (Birdland)
2009-04-25: Jersey Boys (London)
2009-06-06: Next To Normal
2009-06-07: God Of Carnage
2009-06-08: Reasons To Be Pretty
2009-06-09: Billy Elliot
2009-06-10: The Philantropist
2009-06-10: 9 to 5: The Musical
2009-07-04: Phèdre (London)
2009-07-04: La Cage Aux Folles (London)
2009-07-05: Waiting For Godot (London)
2009-09-05: The Shawshank Redemption (London)
2009-09-05: Alan Cumming: I Bought A Blue Car Today (London)
2009-09-25: Vigil
2009-09-26: Superior Donuts
2009-09-26: Memphis
2009-09-27: A Steady Rain
2009-09-27: Next To Normal
2009-09-28: Judas & Me (NYMF)
2009-09-29: Bye Bye Birdie
2009-09-30: Hair
2009-09-30: Oleanna
2009-10-22: Maria Friedman: UK Import Cabaret Project (Belgium)
2009-11-13: Finian's Rainbow
2009-11-14: Starry Messenger
2009-11-14: Memphis
2009-11-15: South Pacific
2009-11-15: Ordinary Days
2009-11-16: Bound For Broadway
2009-11-17: Ragtime
2009-11-18: A Steady Rain
2009-11-18: Memphis

[MusicSnob1]

WTF...

[LizzieCurry]

FEBRUARY
Pippin - Deaf West
Jersey Boys - Las Vegas
Phantom - Las Vegas

MARCH
Sunset Boulevard - London
Zorro - London
Jersey Boys - London

APRIL
Les Misérables - school edition here in the SF Bay Area

MAY
Jersey Boys - Las Vegas

JUNE
Spelling Bee - San Jose Repertory
Spamalot - national tour in San Francisco

JULY
Spamalot - national tour in San Francisco
Jersey Boys - Las Vegas

AUGUST
Spelling Bee - Willows Theatre Co (Concord, CA)
American Idiot - Berkeley Rep

SEPTEMBER
South Pacific - national tour in San Francisco
Spelling Bee - Willows Theatre Co (Concord, CA)

OCTOBER
The Who's Tommy - Ray of Light Theatre Co (San Francisco)
Rent - national tour in San Francisco
Spring Awakening - national tour in San Jose

NOVEMBER
Jersey Boys - Las Vegas
Phantom - Las Vegas
Love - Las Vegas

[GoodbyeLoveRENT]

February 6 - RENT (Philly)
February 7 M - RENT (Philly)
February 7 E - RENT (Philly)
February 15 M - RENT (Newark)
February 15 E - RENT (Newark
March 10 - Wicked
April 5 - Next to Normal
April 8 - Billy Elliot
May 9 - Next to Normal
July 8 - 9 to 5
August 28 - 9 to 5
August 29 - Next to Normal
September 25 - RENT (Community theatre production)

I think that's it.. I'll be seeing the Wicked 2NT on January 10 and then Phantom on March 3. :)

[Marianne2]

1. Spamalot
2. Phantom of the Opera
3. Rent (Tour)
4. Wicked
5. In the Heights
6. West Side Story
7. The Wiz
8. Shrek
9. Avenue Q
10. The Toxic Avenger
11. Chicago
12. Bye Bye Birdie
13. Next To Normal
14. Finian's Rainbow

[skander2]

Hair (2 x)
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal
The 39 Steps
Guys and Dolls
9 to 5
West Side Story
Wicked
Ragtime
Finian's Rainbow
South Pacific
God of Carnage
Rock of Ages

[wendilin622]

Might as well do it in order...

1. Spring Awakening
2. August: Osage County
3. Hair
4. In the Heights
5. Next to Normal
6. Mary Stuart
7. Fuerza Bruta (Off Bway)
8. Broadway Bares (does that count?)
9. tick....tick...Boom!
10. Hair
11. August: Osage County (touring in Hartford)
12. Bye Bye Birdie
13. Next to Normal (on the 30th)

13 shows...actually the most I've ever done in a year....

[rorygilmo52]

Billy Elliot 4.4.09m
Guys and Dolls 4.4.09e
Next to Normal 4.5.09m
Billy Elliot 5.30.09m
Next to Normal 5.30.09e
Spring Awakening Tour 6.27.09m
Billy Elliot 7.25.09m
Billy Elliot 7.25.09e
Avenue Q 8.29.09m
Bye Bye Birdie 9.12.09m
Billy Elliot 9.27.09m
Billy Elliot 10.4.09m
Hair 10.10.09m
Billy Elliot 11.13.09e
In the Heights 11.21.09m

I will be seeing the Spring Awakening Tour, The Addams Family, A View From the Bridge, A Little Night Music, and Billy Elliot sometime early next year.

[philly03]

1. Next to normal (Broadway)
2. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Regional)
3. The Music Man (Regional)
4. The 39 Steps (Broadway)
5. Rock of Ages (Broadway)
6. Hair (Broadway)
7. White Christmas (National Tour - Philadelphia)
8. The 39 Steps (Broadway)
9. Ragtime (Broadway)
10. White Christmas (Broadway)
11. Wonderland - Alice's New Musical Adventure (World Premiere, Tampa)
12. Wonderland - Alice's New Musical Adventure (World Premiere, Tampa)

[mywonderwa11]

On Broadway:

White Christmas
South Pacific (twice)
Finian's Rainbow
Speed The Plow
Gypsy
In The Heights
Superior Donuts
Wishful Drinking (twice)
9 to 5
Rock of Ages
Next to Normal (twice)
After Miss Julie
Jersey Boys (twice)
Fela!
Mamma Mia!
Ragtime
Blithe Spirit
Guys & Dolls
Hairspray
HAIR
Bye Bye Birdie (twice)
Pal Joey
Shrek
August: Osage County
West Side Story
The Little Mermaid

Off-Broadway:
The Fantasticks
The Understudy (twice)

Twelfth Night in the Park
Several NYMF shows
Bernadette Peters Concert at the Minskoff Theatre

I'd say it was a good year :) I missed so many good things though.

[mormonophobic]

The Little Mermaid
Billy Elliot
Pal Joey
speed-the-plow
In The Heights
Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Off-BW)
Distracted
The Story of My Life
South Pacific
33 Variations
Wicked
Altar Boyz (Off-BW)
Hedda Gabler
Uncle Vanya (Off-BW)
Avenue Q
West Side Story
Shrek
Guys and Dolls
August: Osage County (2x)
Blithe Spirit
Happiness (Off-BW)
Forbidden Broadway (Off-BW)
God of Carnage
Chicago
Rooms (Off-BW)
Patti LuPone: The Gypsy In My Soul (Vegas)
Oleanna (LA)
Parade (LA)
Ragtime
Hair
Finian's Rainbow
A Steady Rain
Wishful Drinking
Next to Normal

[AC126748]

I no longer keep a list (too time consuming), but my guess would be between 100-125. Definitely more than 100 and less than 200.

[kchenofan]

Wow. You guys get out a lot.

Bway:
Wicked
The Little Mermaid
9 to 5

Off-Bway:
Love, Loss, and What I Wore

Concerts:
A Gala Evening With Kristin Chenoweth
Idina Menzel

[BroadwayGuy12]

I had a pretty good year.

Broadway:
Shrek
The Little Mermaid
Next to Normal (3x after Wednesday)
Billy Elliot
August: Osage County
9 to 5
Blithe Spirit
West Side Story
The Phantom of the Opera
The 39 Steps
Hair (2x)
Bye Bye Birdie
Hamlet
A Steady Rain
Finian’s Rainbow
Ragtime

Regional (all in Philadelphia):
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Forbidden Broadway's Greatest Hits
Show Boat
Oliver

Community:
Crazy For You
Enter Laughing
Kiss Me, Kate
Thoroughly Modern Millie
How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying
The Wedding Singer
Radium Girls

Other:
Stephen Sondheim and Frank Rich @ the Kimmel Center
Gavin Creel and Robbie Roth @ Symphony Space

[LimelightMike]

Dividing the Estate â?? January 3, 2009
SHREK: The Musical â?? January 7, 2009
Dear Edwina â?? January 17, 2009
Soul of Shaolin â?? January 21, 2009
The American Plan â?? January 25, 2009
Hedda Gabler â?? January 28, 2009
Pal Joey â?? February 13, 2009
The Story of My Life â?? February 18, 2009
The Savannah Disputation â?? March 1, 2009
33 Variations â?? March 12, 2009
Rooms: a rock romance â?? March 22, 2009
Noel Cowardâ??s BLITHE SPIRIT â?? March 29, 2009
Guys & Dolls â?? April 1, 2009
The Toxic Avenger â?? April 3, 2009
Rock of Ages â?? April 5, 2009
next to normal â?? April 18, 2009
reasons to be pretty â?? April 26, 2009
Desire Under the Elms â?? May 2, 2009
Waiting for Godot â?? May 27, 2009
West Side Story â?? June 3, 2009
Exit the King - June 10, 2009
HAIR â?? June 17, 2009
The Wiz (Encores!) â?? June 24, 2009
God of Carnage â?? July 8, 2009
Avenue Q â?? September 12, 2009
Superior Donuts â?? October 3, 2009
Hamlet â?? October 11, 2009
Oleanna â?? October 17, 2009
Bye-Bye Birdie â?? October 21, 2009
Ragtime: The Musical â?? October 31, 2009
FELA! â?? November 18, 2009
Memphis â??- November 25, 2009
The Royal Family â?? November 29, 2009
This â?? December 13, 2009
RCE -

* I had to take a break from theatergoing due to a lapse in time and availability, having made my directoral debut regionally during the summer months - Reason enough to 'pause'. *

TOTAL: 35

Not my best (last year's record), but DEFINITELY not my worst.

[wexy]

25 on and off and may squeak one more in.

[EugLoven]

EUGS THEATRE IN-TAKE 2009

BROADWAY = 32
OFF-BROADWAY / FESTIVALS = 55
VARIETY / CONCERTS = 19

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(listed chronologically by attended)

BROADWAY
Hedda Gabler
The Story of My Life
Equus
In The Heights
Speed-The-Plow
The American Plan
Joe Turners Come and Gone
Norman Conquests: Table Manners
Norman Conquests: Living Together
Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden
Exit the King
9 to 5
33 Variations
Irenas Vow
Waiting for Godot
Mary Stuart
Reasons to be Pretty
Guys and Dolls
Blithe Spirit
The Phantom of the Opera
Bye Bye Birdie
After Miss Julie
Wishful Drinking
Finians Rainbow
In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)
Brighton Beach Memoirs
God of Carnage
Hair
Burn the Floor
Oleanna
The Royal Family
Shrek

OFF-BROADWAY / FESTIVALS
Sleepwalk with Me
Blanche Survives Katrina
Krapp 39
Kasper Hauser
Habeus Corpus
Garden of Earthly Delights
The Hefner Monologues
The Marvelous Wonderettes
Distracted
The Unseen
That Pretty Pretty (or The Rape Play)
Ruined
Everyday Rapture
Why Torture is Wrong (and the People Who Love Them)
Suddenly Last Summer
The Dishwashers
Stunning
Twelfth Night
The Tin Pan Alley Rag
The Toxic Avenger
Therese Raquin
For Lovers Only
The Columbine Project
Naked Boys Singing
Sweet Storm
How Now Dow Jones
Vote: The Musical
Hint: The Murder Mystery Musical
Americas Next Top Bottom
A Contemporary Look at a Successful Marriage c.1959
Abraham Lincolns Big Gay Dance Party
Citizen Ruth
Dolls
Far Out
Baby Wants Candy
Puppetry of the Penis
The Ghosts of Provincetown
A Lifetime Burning
Keep Your Pantheon/School
Killers and Other Family
The Retributionists
Dial N for Negress
Still Life
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Love Child
The Understudy
The Oldsmobiles
Age of Iron
This
The Brother/Sister Plays
Girl Crazy at Encores! City Center
Finians Rainbow at Encores! City Center
The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever
Ordinary Days
Nightingale

VARIETY / CONCERTS
New York Pops - Carnegie Hall
Miami City Ballet - City Center
Defying Inequality
London Philharmonic - Lincoln Center
The Hot Box Burlesque - Slipper Room
NYCGMC - Big Gay Sing
Vienna Teng - Le Poisson Rouge
Broadway for a New America
Adele - Roseland
Youth Pride Chorus - Lullabies and Wake-Up Calls
Wall to Wall Broadway
School of American Ballet Workshop
Broadway Bares 19.0 Click It - Roseland
Miss Richfield 1981 - Provincetown Art House
The Paper Raincoat - Joes Pub
The Little House on the Prairie Musical - Paper Mill
HRC Annual Dinner Gala - Lady GaGa, Lea Michele, Gavin Creel
Our Lady J Gospel for the Godless - Joes Pub
Youth Pride Chorus - Get On Your Feet
NYCGMC - Together at Town Hall