First Broadway Show?
First Broadway Show?
cpnchicago
Understudy Joined: 4/25/06
#0First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 5:55pmJust for fun, what was the first show you ever saw? Mine was Jerome Robbins Broadway (1990). My dad surprised me with a trip to NYC and took me to see it.
#1re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 5:57pm
first show Phantom of the Opera in Boston 1996
first Broadway show Lion King 1998 I believe
"I'll eat some breakfast, then change the world."
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#2re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 5:57pmLes Mis, April 18th 2003. Haven't stopped going since.
#3re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:00pm
First show- The Wizard of Oz Tour at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia, January 2, 1998
First real Broadway musical- Lae Miserables Tour at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, March 27 2004
First Broadway Show- Wicked at the Gershwin Theatre, March 26 2005
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#4re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:01pmRent- January 25, 2005
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
Bohemian1232
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/26/05
#5re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:03pmThe Music Man in 2001.
"Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead."
#6re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:03pm42nd Street Revival - I don't remember what year.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
ihearttheatre
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/12/05
#9re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:07pm
I can't remember my very first ever show, it was probobly at a high school somewhere. The first show I saw that was professionaly done was The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)Can't remember what theatre on the West End of the winter of 2002. My first Broadway show was All Shook Up on July 3rd 2005.
Updated On: 5/24/06 at 06:07 PM
beenthere
Understudy Joined: 8/22/05
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#11re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:14pmDRS last weekend.
"I have this mental image of Patti barreling down the street and pushing tourists out of her way." -colleen_lee
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#12re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:21pmMy parents took me to see Evita in 1981 for my seventh birthday.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#15re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:30pm
First show: Cats in the West End, 1985
First Broadway show: Rent, 2005
#16re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:35pm
First Show: Les Miserables 1992
First Broadway Show: Chicago 2001
#17re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:38pm
Well, my parents were both in theatre, so I started going at a very young age.
First show (at least that I remember): Blythe Spirit, with my mom as Ruth. I was 5 years old.
First Broadway tour: "1776" in 1970 or '71 (?). It starred Rex Everhart, George Hearn, Barbara Lang, Pamela Hall, Walter Charles, etc. I was 7 or 8 years old.
But I didn't get around to seeing an actual Broadway show until the '83 Tony-winning revival of "On Your Toes" with Natalia Makarova, Dina Merrill, George S. Irving, Lara Teeter, George de la Pena and Christine Andreas. I remember I cried when the overture started. No joke. Hah! (What a big baby, right???)
And the following night I saw the OBC of "Cats." I actually went on a "theatre bender" that entire trip, and also saw Torch Song Trilogy, Dreamgirls, Agnes of God, Forbidden Broadway, Nine and 42nd Street.
Pure heaven.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 5/24/06 at 06:38 PM
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VeuveClicquot
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/04
Practically Perfect
Leading Actor Joined: 3/10/05
#20re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:41pm
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying...
with Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, Victoria Clark, etc... I don't remember the year offhand...maybe 96? 97?
#21re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:43pm
First show I saw on Broadway was A Chorus Line... I was around 15, I think, so, that was around '84.
I'm not sure what my first show ever was, but, the first I really remember was the King and I tour in the early 80s with Yul Brynner. And a dinner theater production of Fiddler that scared the crap out of me.
#22re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:43pmChicago ~ July 9, 2003
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Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#24re: First Broadway Show?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:50pm
Avenue Q--March 6th, 2005. Seen it 4 times since--every time I'm in NYC, I make a stop at Avenue Q 
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
