Your Year In Theatre - 2010

[quizking101]

Posted: 12/21/10 at 4:21pm

Since the year 2010 is winding down, (and a distraction from the latest Spider-Man fiasco is necessary), I thought I'd make a thread so everyone can briefly summarize their year in theatregoing. (Feel free to use this outline.

I have seen: 11 Shows

My Top 5 (in order): LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, AMERICAN IDIOT, SOUTH PACIFIC, BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, and LEND ME A TENOR.

Hall of Shame: A LIFE IN THE THEATRE

[wickedfan11]

Posted: 12/21/10 at 4:24pm

I had a busy year. I assistant directed a show, directed a show, and starred in two, so I didn't have much time to go to New York.

I saw: 4 shows

In the Heights, A Little Night Music (Bernadette/Elaine), South Pacific, Next to Normal

[Mark_E]

Posted: 12/21/10 at 4:29pm

Les Miserables, Legally Blonde (x7), Never Forget, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Six Degrees of Separation, Jerusalem, Red, Waiting for Godot, Really Old, Like Forty Five, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Dreamboats and Petticoats, A Man of No Importance, Ghosts, Sister Act (x3), The Little Dog Laughed, The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies (x6), Serenading Louie, Billy Elliot, The Misanthrope, Hairspray (x2), Katya Kabanova, Shirley Jones in Concert, Naked Boys Singing, Dirty Dancing, Enron, Once Upon A Time At The Adelphi, Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, Polar Bears, Beyond the Horizon, Bedroom Farce, Women Beware Women, Sweet Charity (x3), London Assurance, Hair (x2), The Pirates of Penzance, Holding the Man, The Habit of Art, Carmen, The White Guard, tick...tick...BOOM!, Whistle down the Wind, Love the Sinner, After the Dance, The Fantasticks, Leona Lewis@02 Welcome to Thebes, All My Sons, Bon Jovi@02, Confessions of a Dancewhore, Tap Dogs, All the Fun of the Fair, Assassins, Spring Storm, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, After the Tone, Educating Rita, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Into the Woods, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, State Fair, American Idiot, The Addams Family, Promises, Promises, Memphis, In the Heights, A Little Night Music, next to normal, Rock of Ages, Chess, Deathtrap (x2), Shirley Valentine, Earthquakes in London, The Drowsy Chaperone, Departure Lounge, Closer than Ever, Caroline O'Connor: The Showgirl Within, Avenue Q, Danton's Death, Or You Could Kiss Me, Tomorrow Morning, Onassis, La bohème, Men Should Weep, Bright Lights, Big City, Blood and Gifts, FELA!, Passion, Hamlet, Flashdance, Season's Greetings, Love Story, End of the Rainbow, White Christmas



Top 5 Musicals - Memphis, Departure Lounge, Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi, A Little Night Music, Love Never Dies

Low Point - Elegies for Angels, Punks an Raging Queens (bad production where the singers couldn't sing well at all!)

Top 5 Plays - Red, Jerusalem, After the Dance, All My Sons, End of the Rainbow

Low Points - Ghosts, Welcome to Thebes, Danton's Death

Opera - La Boheme (Wow!) and Katya Kabanova (so-so)

Other Hightlights - Bon Jovi, Leona Lewis and Les Miserables all at the 02 arena - Fabulous!!!
Updated On: 12/23/10 at 04:29 PM

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 12/21/10 at 4:35pm

On tour: Legally Blonde & Spamalot

Broadway: Memphis, West Side Story, La Cage Aux Folles

La Cage is reigning as the best.

[sergio_27]

Posted: 12/21/10 at 4:42pm

I went to New York for the first time this year, on May. I loved it so much that I came back on October.

Top 3: next to normal, La Cage Aux Folles and American Idiot.

Runner-ups: A Little Night Music (with CZJ and Mrs. Lansbury), Promises, Promises and Wicked.

Guilty Pleasure: Naked Boys Singing!

[CandiceElyse]

Posted: 12/21/10 at 4:42pm

Only got to NY twice this year

I saw 4 shows this year- Promises, Promises, Hair, Next to Normal, and Legally Blonde on tour.

Best show by far was Next to Normal, but Promises, Promises is probably the funniest show ive seen yet..mainly b/c of Katie Finneran.

I also got to see Chita Rivera in concert...amazing.

I will also round out the year with Oklahoma! at Arena Stage on the 29th.

[newintown]

Posted: 12/21/10 at 4:49pm

Wonderland
Ragtime
Encores – Fanny, Anyone Can Whistle, Bells Are Ringing
Looped
101 Dalmatians
The Pride
The Singing Forest
La Cage
Yank
The Fantasticks
The Temperamentals
Lend Me A Tenor
Banana Shpeel
The Addams Family
Promises, Promises
Sondheim On Sondheim
Next Fall
American Idiot
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
A Life In The Theatre
The Pee Wee Herman Show
The Pitmen Painters
The Scottsboro Boys
Elf
Donny & Marie
Spiderman

I think that's it...
Updated On: 12/21/10 at 04:49 PM

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 12/21/10 at 4:56pm

JANUARY
Xanadu tour (Sacramento)

FEBRUARY
Jersey Boys (Melbourne)
Spring Awakening (Sydney)
Hats Off - Oz Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (Sydney)

APRIL
Jersey Boys (Las Vegas)
Songs My Idols Sang and Danced (Las Vegas)

JUNE
Into the Woods (Walnut Creek, CA)
In the Heights tour (San Francisco)

JULY
Joseph/Dreamcoat (Sacramento Music Circus)

AUGUST
Rent (Walnut Creek, CA)

SEPTEMBER
The Fantasticks (SF Playhouse)

OCTOBER
Jerry Springer: The Opera (Ray of Light Theatre, San Francisco)
Compulsion (Berkeley Rep)

NOVEMBER
Jersey Boys (Broadway)
Hound of the Baskervilles (Gotham Radio Theatre)
Billy Elliot (Broadway)
A Little Night Music (Broadway)
Dracula (Walnut Creek, CA)
West Side Story tour (San Francisco)

DECEMBER
David Campbell at the Rrazz Room

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 12/21/10 at 5:04pm

Good golly, how do you guys remember all this stuff?

I can't remember what I've seen in the past three months :-/

[binau]

Posted: 12/21/10 at 5:44pm

What I saw in NY:

* A Little Night Music (With CZJ/Lansbury once and BP/Stritch twice)
* West Side Story
* Next to Normal (with Jessica Phillips once and Mazzie twice)
* La Cage Aux Folles
* Anyone can Whistle (encores!)
* Sondheim on Sondheim
* Promises, Promises
* The Scottsboro Boys
* Memphis
* Gypsy of the Year

What I saw in Australia:

* Wicked Australia
* August: OSAGE County (the Steppenwolf production came to Sydney with dunagan et al.)
* Spring Awakening Australia
* The West Side Story world tour
* The Opera Australia production of A little Night music with Anthony Warlow
* Assassins at NIDA
* [Title of show] Australia
* Kiss of the Spider Woman
* Our Town

Plus an amateur production of Sweeney Todd, Zanna Don't and other small plays and things I can't be bothered to list.

[TonyVincent]

Posted: 12/21/10 at 6:21pm

Better than '09, but not as good as '08, which I don't think I'll ever surpass in number, and will be hard to beat in quality.

01/06/10 Fela!
01/09/10 Altar Boyz
02/16/10 Race
02/23/10 Memphis
03/02/10 A Little Night Music
03/09/10 Next Fall
03/16/10 Sondheim: The Birthday Concert
03/23/10 Time Stands Still
03/29/10 American Idiot
04/21/10 La Cage aux Folles
04/26/10 Sondheim Birthday Celebration CC Gala
04/27/10 Sondheim on Sondheim
04/28/10 Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
05/09/10 Enron
05/11/10 Everyday Rapture
05/12/10 Red
05/26/10 Oliver Parker!
06/01/10 Promises, Promises
06/08/10 Fences
06/13/10 Tony Awards Dress Rehearsal
06/13/10 Next to Normal
06/26/10 Sunday in the Park with George (Philly)
06/30/10 American Idiot
07/06/10 Savion Glover's Sole Power
07/27/10 A Little Night Music
08/03/10 Lend Me a Tenor
09/21/10 Addams Family
10/12/10 A Brief Encounter
10/27/10 Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
11/08/10 Merchant of Venice
11/09/10 La Bete
11/20/10 Bells are Ringing
11/23/10 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
12/06/10 Broadway Talks: Elaine Stritch
12/08/10 Lombardi

Favorites, of the things I saw for the first time in 2010:
1) A Little Night Music (with Bernadette)
2) Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
3) Red
4) American Idiot
5) Bells are Ringing
6) Sondheim on Sondheim
7) Next Fall
Time Stands Still
9) Fences
10) Lend Me a Tenor

Though my favorite experience in a theater was undoubtedly the Sondheim concert at Lincoln Center.

[Elke]

Posted: 12/21/10 at 7:02pm

I saw 50+ shows, so I'm not going to list them all. Most of them were in New York, five in London. Not too shabby for a Europe based theatre geek.

As for the highlights and low points...

PLAYS: Best
A View from the Bridge
Time Stands Still
Red

PLAYS: Worst
Mrs. Warren's Profession
The Habit of Art (London NT)
A Free Man of Color

MUSICALS: Best
The Scottsboro Boys
A Little Night Music
Next To Normal (had already seen it in 09)
Aspects of Love (Menier Chocolate Factory)

MUSICALS: Worst
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

VARIOUS Highlights
Memphis' first performance after Tony Awards
Billie Joe Armstrong as St. Jimmy
Sam Rockwell and Chris Walken in A Behanding... Yeah, I'm a fan :)
Mark Rylance in La Bête
Carol Channing at Gypsy of the Year

Bring on 2011!

[Sauja]

Posted: 12/21/10 at 9:47pm

Adding up shows, readings, concerts, etc., I've seen over 100 productions this year. Which explains why I'm broke and behind on work!

I won't bore anyone with a full list, so I'll just run through some highlights. Overall, I thought it was an amazing year for plays, and an...okay one for musicals.

Favorite moments:
--The diner scene between Louis and Belize in Millennium Approaches was my favorite few minutes in a theater this year. Except for...
--A few hundred broadway performers singing "Sunday" at Sondheim's 80th at Avery Fisher.
--The extraordinarily strange/delightful experience of seeing Patti LuPone play a teenager in Annie Get Your Gun at Ravinia.
--Bernadette sending in the clowns.
--Colman Domingo celebrating John Cullum's 50th anniversary on Broadway during a curtail call at The Scottsboro Boys.
--Arachne's "Deeply Furious" in Spider-Man (for most deliciously awful-we all need some unintentional humor now and again).
--Molina and Redmayne painting a canvas in Red.
--Laura Benanti's "Model Behavior" in Women on the Verge. Say what you will about the show, but that number is inspired.

Favorite performances:
Lily Rabe in The Merchant of Venice
Nina Arianda in Venus in Fur
Zachary Quinto in Angels in America
Deidre O'Connell in In the Wake
Michael Chernus in The Aliens, In the Wake, and SPF's reading of Man Boobs (find him more work!)
Andrew Garman in A Bright New Boise
Bobby Steigert in Yank!
Raul Esparza, Donna Murphy, and Sutton Foster in Anyone Can Whistle
Joshua Henry, Colman Domingo, Forest McClendon, and the ensemble of The Scottsboro Boys
Eddie Redmayne in Red
Douglas Hodge in La Cage
Brian Bedford and Santino Fontana in The Importance of Being Earnest


Favorite plays:
The Aliens
Fences
Venus in Fur
Bachelorette
A Bright New Boise
The Merchant of Venice
Red
Angels in America
The Little Foxes
One new play and one revival that opinion was mixed on but I adored: In the Wake and The Glass Menagerie
Less a play than an experience: PS 122's Hotel Savoy


Favorite musicals:
La Cage
The Scottsboro Boys
Brief Encounter (however you may wish to categorize it)

And not to dwell, but a quick recap of the worst of the year:
The New York Musical Festival--I saw four shows, each worst than the last.
Spider-Man. Why pile on? Because it's actually as bad as everyone says.
A Free Man of Color, or What Was John Guare Smoking?
Million Dollar Quartet. Period.
Updated On: 12/21/10 at 09:47 PM

[yay_gerb]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 2:11am

i have 20 this year so far including a few repeats. not nearly as much as i had in the past few years.

Present Laughter
Race
Hair(ORC final perf)
Lend Me A Tenor(x2)
La Cage
Fences
God of Carnage
Red(x2)
American Idiot(x2)
Next to Normal
A Behanding in Spokane
Our Town
BBAJ (off broadway)
BBAJ (x2 on broadway)
Brief Encounter
Time Stands Still
Women on the Verge

will probably fit in a couple more in the next week and a half.

[rjjn]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 6:45am

Sunday in the Park With George (college)
The Last 5 Years (college)
The Marriage of Figaro (college)
Hair (college)
Mamma Mia! (national tour)
Anything Goes (high school)
Memphis (Broadway)
American Idiot (Broadway)
Mary Poppins (national tour)
South Pacific (Broadway)
A Chorus Line (national tour)
The Coronation of Poppea (college)
Sunset Boulevard (regional)

and later today: The Pee-Wee Herman Show (Broadway)

[Marianne2]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 8:09am

Hair
South Pacific
The Miracle Worker
West Side Story
The Kid
God of Carnage
Promises, Promises
La Cage Aux Folles
Dusk Rings a Bell
Next to Normal
A Life in the Theatre
Broadway Takes the Runway Benefit

Updated On: 12/22/10 at 08:09 AM

[GottaHaveAGimmick]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 8:41am

New York: la Cage Aux Folles, Everyday Rapture
Miami/Ft. Lauderdale: Young Frankenstein, Spring Awakening
Toronto: Priscilla- Queen of the Desert

[sally1112]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 8:49am

The bad new for me is that for the first time in about five years, I did not have enough money to make my annual pilgrimage to NYC, so I saw no Broadway shows. But that will not happen next year, because work is sending me to NYC Jan!

I did see a few great national tours here in Louisville- Wicked, Jersey Boys, and 39 Steps. I also saw Legally Blonde.

[AlexiaDark]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 10:04am

The Light In The Piazza
Hair
Legally Blonde (National Tour)
Jersey Boys (Toronto Production)
Rock of Ages (Toronto Production)
South Pacific (National Tour)
Kiss Me, Kate (Stratford)
Evita (Stratford)
Priscilla (Pre-Broadway)
Wicked (National Tour)

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 10:19am

Shows I've seen this year:
Broadway:
Ragtime
Promises
Finian's
ALNM (4 times!)
Sondheim on Sondheim

Elsewhere:
Funnyhouse of a Negro
Spelling Bee
Wild Party (Lippa)
Body Awareness
Into the Woods
Hairspray

Shows I was in/ involved in:
Children of Eden (Storyteller)
Harold! The Musical (Harold)
Three Sisters (run crew)
Sunday... George (Boy/Lee Randolph)

Shows I have to see in the next few weeks:
N2N
WotVoaNB
WSS (again)
ALNM (if I have time to break my record for the most number of time's I've seen a production) Updated On: 12/22/10 at 10:19 AM

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 10:28am

2010 was a very good year for me; I think it may have been my best yet. I saw nearly 50 shows, 19 of which were on Broadway.

Broadway:
Hair (third time, after 2 in '09)
A Little Night Music
Next Fall
Sondheim on Sondheim
West Side Story (second time, after 1 in '09)
American Idiot (3x)
La Cage aux Folles
Fences
Everyday Rapture
Promises, Promises
Lend Me a Tenor
The Addams Family
Memphis
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Next to Normal (fourth time, after 3 in '09)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The Scottsboro Boys
Elf
Time Stands Still

Off-Broadway:
Yank!
Anyone Can Whistle (Encores!)

Regional (Philadelphia):
Medea
Rooms: A Rock Romance
Fiddler on the Roof

College:
String Theory
Dear Brutus
Dear Charlotte
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Miss Julie
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Oleanna
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
Stage Door
Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika
The Adding Machine
The Actor's Nightmare/After Magritte
The Wild Party (Lippa)
The Mystery of Irma Vep

Community/High School:
Gypsy
All Shook Up
Into the Woods
Hair
Grease
Beauty and the Beast
Urinetown
Alice in Wonderland

Other:
The 64th Annual Tony Awards (Radio City Music Hall)
Gavin Creel: Back to New York (Birdland)
Updated On: 12/29/10 at 10:28 AM

[AC126748]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 10:52am

I saw somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 shows in the NY metro area. Here's my list of top-ten highlights:

1. A View From the Bridge (Broadway - Cort Theatre)
2. Bernadette Peters in A Little Night Music (Broadway - Walter Kerr Theatre)
3. Clybourne Park (Off Broadway - Playwrights Horizons)
4. The Glass Menagerie (Off Broadway - Laura Pels Theatre)
5. Time Stands Still (Broadways - Friedman Theatre and Cort Theatre)
6. See Rock City and Other Destinations (Off Broadway - Transport Group)
7. Cherry Jones and Sally Hawkins in Mrs. Warren's Profession (Broadway - American Airlines Theatre)
8. The Winter's Tale (Off Broadway - Delacorte Theatre)
9. Everyday Rapture (Broadway - American Airlines Theatre)
10. Driving Miss Daisy (Broadway - John Golden Theatre)

My favorite performances (not including the ones mentioned in the top-ten list proper):
Liev Schreiber and Jessic Hecht, A View From the Bridge
Nina Arianda, Venus in Fur
Laura Linney, Time Stands Still
Jan Maxwell, Lend Me a Tenor and Wings
Judith Ivey, The Glass Menagerie
Frank Wood, Clybourne Park and Angels in America
Marianne Jean Baptiste, The Winter's Tale
James Earl Jones, Driving Miss Daisy
Donna Murphy, Anyone Can Whistle
James Snyder, Elena Shaddow and Fred Applegate, Fanny
Katie Finneran, Promises Promises
Kelsey Grammer, La Cage Aux Folles
Emily Skinner, Billy Elliot
Laura Benanti, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Bryce Ryness and Mamie Parris, See Rock City and Other Destinations
John Glover and Noah Robbins, Secrets of the Trade
Marin Mazzie, Next to Normal
Viola Davis, Fences
Mark Rylance and Joanna Lumley, La Bete

Best performance by an understudy:
de'Adre Aziza, subbing for Sherie Rene Scott in Women on the Verge...

Worst of the year:
1. Lily Rabe's overhyped, god-awful performance in Merchant of Venice
2. A Free Man of Color
3. Everything about Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown except the performances
4. American Idiot
5. The Book of Grace

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 11:39am

Unless listed, all the shows were on Broadway. I saw a lot this year, but surprisingly, it was still less than last year.

1. In The Heights (National Tour)- January 5, 7:30 pm [Hartford, CT]
2. Les Miserables (London)- January 9, 2:30 pm
3. Billy Elliot (London)- January 9, 7:30 pm
4. Legally Blonde (London)- January 11, 7:30 pm
5. Blood Brothers (London)- January 12, 7:45 pm
6. Sister Act (London)- January 13, 3:00 pm
7. The Little Dog Laughed (London)- January 13, 7:45 pm
8. Next to Normal- January 17, 7:30 pm
9. Rock of Ages- February 6, 8 pm
10. Billy Elliot- February 7, 7:30 pm
11. Billy Elliot- February 15, 8 pm
12. Spring Awakening (National Tour)- February 27, 2 pm [Hartford, CT]
13. Spring Awakening (National Tour)- February 27, 8 pm [Hartford, CT]
14. Hair- March 6, 2 pm
15. Memphis- March 12, 8 pm
16. Hair- March 13, 2 pm
17. Race- March 13, 8 pm
18. Next to Normal- March 21, 3 pm
19. God of Carnage- March 25, 8 pm
20. Lend Me A Tenor- April 10, 2 pm
21. West Side Story- April 11, 3 pm
22. American Idiot- April 17, 2 pm
23. American Idiot- April 24, 2 pm
24. Everyday Rapture- April 24, 8 pm
25. American Idiot- May 1, 2 pm
26. La Cage Aux Folles- May 4, 8 pm
27. Legally Blonde (National Tour)- June 3, 7:30 pm [Newark, NJ]
28. The Addams Family- June 5, 8 pm
29. American Idiot- June 6, 2 pm
30. Fela!- June 6, 7:30 pm
31. Next Fall- June 9, 3 pm
32. Titanic (Benefit Concert)- June 21, 7:30 pm
33. I’ll Be Damned (Off-Broadway Jaradoa)- July 13, 7 pm
34. Wicked- July 14, 2 pm
35. American Idiot- July 14, 8 pm
36. American Idiot- July 28, 2 pm
37. American Idiot- August 11, 8 pm
38. Billy Elliot- August 20, 8 pm
39. In The Heights- August 21, 8 pm
40. Next to Normal- August 30, 8 pm
41. American Idiot- September 4, 2 pm
42. American Idiot- September 14, 8 pm
43. Rock of Ages- September 18, 2 pm
44. Billy Elliot- September 18, 7:30 pm
45. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson- September 20, 7 pm
46. A Little Night Music- October 3, 3 pm
47. American Idiot- October 3, 7:30 pm
48. The Scottsboro Boys- October 9, 3 pm
49. Brief Encounter- October 16, 2 pm
50. Hair (National Tour)- October 22, 8 pm [New Haven, CT]
51. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson- October 29, 8 pm
52. American Idiot- October 29, 10 pm
53. Next To Normal- October 30, 2 pm
54. Billy Elliot- November 7, 2 pm
55. American Idiot- November 21, 7:30 pm
56. Promises, Promises- December 11, 2 pm
57. Elf- December 21, 7 pm
58. Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown- December 23, 8 pm
59. American Idiot- December 27, 8 pm

Updated On: 12/28/10 at 11:39 AM

[EdenIsMyHero]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 11:48am

Broadway unless otherwise specified.

1/2: A Little Night Music
1/2: Rock of Ages
1/3: Ragtime
1/3: Memphis
3/16: Cats (National Tour)
5/22: The Temperamentals (Off-Broadway)
5/23: Next Fall
5/26: The Kid (Off-Broadway)
5/28: The Metal Children (Off-Broadway)
5/29: Hair
5/30: The 39 Steps (Off-Broadway)
5/30: Perez Hilton Saves the Universe (Joe's Pub)
6/1: Red
6/2: A Behanding in Spokane
6/3: Sondheim on Sondheim
6/4: God of Carnage
6/5: Legally Blonde (National Tour)
6/7: Butterflies are Free (Reading in Westport, CT)
6/10: Everyday Rapture
6/16: American Idiot
6/17: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Off-Broadway)
6/18: La Cage Aux Folles
6/24: Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Off-Broadway)
6/26: Lend Me a Tenor
6/29: Nobody Suspects a Butterfly (Reading)
6/29: Next to Normal
6/30: American Idiot
7/6: Promises, Promises
7/7: The Addams Family
7/7: The Grand Manner (Off-Broadway)
7/8: American Idiot
7/13: American Idiot
7/17: South Pacific
7/20: Come Fly Away
7/21: A Little Night Music
7/22: Falling For Eve (Off-Broadway)
7/24: American Idiot
7/28: Trust (Off-Broadway)
7/29: Next to Normal
7/30: American Idiot
8/3: In the Heights
8/6: American Idiot
9/19: Wicked (National Tour)
9/25: Time Stands Still
9/25: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
9/26: American Idiot
9/30: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Lyric Stage Co in Boston)
10/6: Rock of Ages (National Tour)
10/9: Without You (NYMF)
10/10: American Idiot
10/22: Thoroughly Modern Millie (at Boston University)
10/30: The Circle Mirror Transformation (Boston's Huntington Theater Company)
11/14: West Side Story
11/14: American Idiot
11/19: RENT (at Boston University)
12/3: Spring Awakening: Wedekind Play (at Boston University)

My top 5 for the year (things I saw for the first time in 2010) are probably American Idiot, A Little Night Music, Without You, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Next Fall.

Definitely my best year yet because I lived in NYC for the summer. Saw 23 different Broadway shows and lots of other great productions as well.
Updated On: 12/22/10 at 11:48 AM

[brightasyellow]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 1:35pm

Okay, all of you who see a lot of shows, how the heck do you afford it? I live in LA and I've officially decided that I would be destitute if I lived in NYC.

My list:

Why Torture is Wrong, and the People who Love Them)-play by Christopher Durang @The Blank Theater, LA
New York Animals (play by Steven Sater) @Rogue Machine Theater, LA
[title of show] @Celebration Theater, LA
A Little Night Music Broadway (Peters/Stritch) - Broadway
American Idiot - Broadway
Mary Poppins - Broadway
Mrs. Warren's Profession - Roundabout Theater, NYC
Wicked - Broadway
Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin - @La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego
The Glass Menagerie - @Mark Taper Forum, LA
Rock 'n Roll (play by Tom Stoppard) - @Open Fist Theater, LA
Next to Normal - Ahmanson Theater (x2), LA
Every Tongue Confess - @Arena Stage, DC (12/24))