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Which show have you seen the most number of times?
#75Which show have you seen the most number of times?
Posted: 5/31/13 at 6:55pm
Demitri, did you once post on ATC about seeing Evita several times in LA and discuss how Mandy Patinkin gave the same (fully realized) performance from day one while Patti was different every time you saw her?
I've seen a few shows twice or three times, but the show I saw the most was the LuPone Gypsy, which I saw on Broadway six times. (I took a few people to see it throughout its run.)
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#76Which show have you seen the most number of times?
Posted: 5/31/13 at 6:59pmOh, duh. I saw Patti's "Gypsy" three times (plus City Center).
#77Which show have you seen the most number of times?
Posted: 5/31/13 at 11:15pmIt's a tie between various performances of FOLLIES and PACIFIC OVERTURES.
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
broadwaygal3
Chorus Member Joined: 11/17/04
#78Which show have you seen the most number of times?
Posted: 6/1/13 at 6:21am
SUGAR starring Robert Morse - 39 (on Broadway and L.A.)
HOW TO SUCCEED with Robert Morse - 8
THE PRODUCERS - 5 on Broadway, 1 in London
THE BOY FROM OZ - 18 (14 on Broadway, 4 in Australia)
A STEADY RAIN - 14
HUGH JACKMAN BACK ON BROADWAY - 27
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#79Which show have you seen the most number of times?
Posted: 6/1/13 at 9:02am
I am struck with wonder and admiration by the passion for the theatre manifested in these responses. The theatre gods are certainly smiling reading this thread.
And I hope they'll confer an understanding nod my way if I answer the question on a more metaphorical level. Literally, I saw the original The Happiest Girl in the World, Milk and Honey, and countless others but once; and yet, at the same time I've seen them innumerable times. "Huh?," you ask? "Is this person daft?" Well, the illustrious judges and juries of this board have already proclaimed that, and definitively. But the theatre gods know what I'm talking about.
For when I go to the Al Hirschfeld Theatre and start hearing someone wail some nondescript ballad, my mind shuts the whole thing off, and there I see, once again, Cyril Ritchard and Janice Rule lighting up the stage in "Vive la Virtue" in The Happiest Girl in the World, or Mimi Benzell and Robert Weede singing one of Jerry Herman's beautiful ballads in Milk and Honey. And I'm ecstatic, as before. And when Matilda starts relating some boring, unintelligible tale, I start seeing Barbara Cook in The Gay Life, or Jerry Orbach in Promises, Promises. And it's magic all over again.
So when the next dismal opus opens wherever it does, it won't be so bad. I'll be seeing one of my favorite shows again. And it'll be great.
#80Which show have you seen the most number of times?
Posted: 6/1/13 at 9:10amNothin' daft about that, After Eight. I may disagree with what shows work or don't work, though that's all in the eye of the beholder as ever, but I can certainly sympathize with wonderful memories of shows past running wild over less-successful present experiences. Lord knows I was hoping to see Joey from WAR HORSE triumphantly gallop onto the Beaumont stage while suffering through the crashing bore of ANN's overlong office interlude.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
#81Which show have you seen the most number of times?
Posted: 6/1/13 at 9:36am
Some people like to savor the one-time-only experience, that makes sense. Some like to repeat the experience many times.
We live in an on-demand society today. Push a button and watch what you want when you want it. Repeated consumption is the norm for TV shows, movies, plays, and books (if you like something enough, you can have it instantly and as often as you want). So it's a very different world with different behavior.
For me, because I was raised in ancient times before the 1980s, it does tend to take away from the "specialness" and the anticipation and the memory of an event. I say that having seen a few Broadway shows more than once.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Salene
Broadway Star Joined: 3/26/07
#82Which show have you seen the most number of times?
Posted: 6/1/13 at 11:01amLes Mis. Around 40 since 1994 - in 4 different countries.
delongpre
Featured Actor Joined: 12/12/12
#83Which show have you seen the most number of times?
Posted: 6/1/13 at 2:47pm
Irene 5 times
Original Drood 3 times
Drood revival 5 times
Sunset Blvd 7 times
Chicago 3 times
I have seen numerous shows more than once. Considering they change from performance to performance it's like seeing it all over again, and it's great if it's a show whose music you love.
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#84Which show have you seen the most number of times?
Posted: 6/1/13 at 4:12pmI am one of those who never see a show more than once with two exceptions. I have seen "Movin Out" and "Wicked" twice. The only reason I saw them twice was because my daughters wanted to see them and I saw them originally without them.
kissynose
Understudy Joined: 10/1/08
#86Which show have you seen the most number of times?
Posted: 6/1/13 at 9:55pm
Hedwig and the angry inch -45
Zanna don't 20
Bat boy 15
Caroline or Change10
Many more 5+
Walmartopia
Urinetown
Rent
Sweet charity
Wicked
Updated On: 6/1/13 at 09:55 PM
#87Which show have you seen the most number of times?
Posted: 6/2/13 at 8:26amRENT ... lost count after 75 times
