Mine would be Proof, which was the first theatrical production to have a very profound effect on me. I saw the original Broadway production 23 times. Remember, this was back in the days when balcony seats were $20 and student tickets might have been slightly less. And if I really felt like splurging, I'd go to TKTS and get a half price orchestra ticket. Top tickets were about $75 then, so an orchestra seat via the TKTS booth could be had for $37.50. Hard to believe this was less than a decade ago!
Off-Broadway, I saw Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris thirteen times.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
I dont think I've ever seen any particular show more than once (other than ones I was working on). I have my favourites, God knows: the original productions of NIGHT MUSIC, THE WIZ, the recent revival of FIDDLER... even WICKED has grown on me. But I wouldnt want to see any of them again, because that would wreck the magic. I'd be sitting there in anticipation of the next Big Moment That I Knew Was Coming instead of just allowing the show to work its wonder.
Now, oddly enough, if it's opera, that's something else altogether, and I suppose that's because in opera it's mostly about the performers, not the production. With cast changes, I could even endure the Taymor MAGIC FLUTE a few times more before running screaming from the house. But there, you're dealing with something that's been written and set: you know what arias are coming, so it's not like there's a whole lot of surprise ("You mean, he killed his daughter? Wow! I never saw that coming!" -- LOL).
I've seen Les Miz over 50 times (tour and Broadway) and Jersey Boys over 30 times (tour, sit-downs and Broadway), but the most times I've ever seen a show actually on Broadway would be only twice each for Jersey Boys, Les Miz and Book of Mormon.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
I think the most I've ever seen a Broadway production is 4 times. However, in the case of Bloody Bloody, I saw it 7 times at the Public (thanks to their amazing student rush policy) and 3 on Broadway.
Since I worked at Shakespeare in the Park this summer, I saw nearly every performance of both Measure for Measure and All's Well- I believe I only missed four performances total the entire summer.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
A Little Night Music (2009 revival) - 12 times Next to Normal - 11 times (once was on tour) West Side Story (2009 revival) - 8 times Chicago (revival) - 8 times
rent and rock of ages i'm in triple digits american idiot was somewhere around 40 next to normal is somewhere around 30 if you count 2ST and DC billy elliot was like 5 ITH is probably around 15
"Sometimes on the strip, the dreams you come in with, ain't the dreams you leave with" ~Rock of Ages
"I'm a butterfly, trivial and small, and in the greater scheme of things, I don't mean much at all." ~The Story of My Life
"Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss." ~Rent
"Phantom of the Opera", 138 times between Broadway and National tour, "Les Miserables, 158 times between Broadway and National tour and my other big one is "The Addams Family" at 62 and the National tour coming up will add even more!