We all have shows that we wish we did not see...but what about the ones you never got to see?
For me it is Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. For some reason it looked funny, but I chose other shows in NYC to see. After hearing the cd though, I wish I had seen it. I am sure in no way can the cd do the show justice (as in Spelling Bee). But it seems like it was very good.
What about you?
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One from long before I was born "Take Me Along" with Jackie Gleason, and several flops "In My Life" and "Good Vibrations"
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
The original Follies, Gypsy, Hello Dolly!, Sweet Charity, and Chicago. The Sweeney Todd revival and the revival of The Pajama Game. Follies at Encores. Christine Ebersole in Mame.
Passion See What I Wanna See Once on this Island Dessa Rose Ragtime
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott
All the Golden Age shows. With Ethel, Carol, Mary, etc. West Side Story, Gypsy, Hello Dolly....
Off-Broadway Wild Party
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
CARRIE, CARRIE, CARRIE LESTAT WONDERFUL TOWN W/BROOKE SHIELDS
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
Oh, wait! If we can go back in time, then the original Dreamgirls, A Chorus Line, West Side Story, Show Boat, and Oklahoma!
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott
As for Idina in Wicked-Loved her performance. She was excellent, in my opinion.
Wish I'd seen: Original cast of Rent, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in "The Producers" (just to know what made their chemistry so special), Sunday in the Park With George OBC, Into the Woods OBC
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
-Gypsy -Follies -A Little Night Music -Sweeney Todd -Death of a Salesman -110 in the Shade -Dreamgirls -Cabaret
Also: The Threepenny Opera with Lotte Lenya, and Leontyne Price or Maria Callas in anything.
"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
'Coram Boy'. It completely sold out at the National Theatre before I got round to booking my ticket.
Also I'm terribly sad I didn't get to New York in time to see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', 'The Light In The Piazza', the 'Sweeney Todd' revival, or 'Evil Dead: The Musical'. I'll get over it, but it's still sad.
Private Lives with either Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence or Maggie Smith and John Standing Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne in anything they did Gypsy with Ethel Merman Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall Candide with Barbara Cook and Robert Rounsville The Beatles at Shea Stadium The original On the Town Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady Mary Martin in Annie Get Your Gun or South Pacific Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie Kim Stanley in Bus Stop The Marx Brothers in Animal Crackers Liberace in Concert