Your first musical

[emmadny]

Hey, guys¡
What it was your first experience in Broadway?
What musical?
How old were you?
Did you like it?

[LizzieCurry]

The first musical I ever saw was Annie when I was 6, but the first musical I actually saw on Broadway was the Les Miz revival. I was...probably older than you. I liked some of it.

[jordangirl]

A Chorus Line (the original run...but not original cast!)
I was 16 ~ a junior in high school.
I was enchanted.

Two days later we saw Starlight Express (less enchanted) and Les Miserables (again, original run I think some original cast...along with Gary Morris as Valjean. Back to enchanted). Then a couple of days after that, we saw The Fantastiks (again, enchanted).

[dshnookie]

The first Broadway show I saw was either RENT or Beauty & the Beast when I was in high school. I saw them very close to each other so I cant recall exactly which was first.

Five years later, I saw my first show ON Broadway - Legally Blonde this past summer.

[spidey_882]

The first show I ever saw on Broadway was Phantom of the Opera, but I saw Miss Saigon about a month or so later. I was 14.

[luvcaroline]

My first musical on Broadway was Promises, Promises when I was about 10. Lorna Luft was the female lead, and she was fantastic. I've been hooked on Broadway ever since!

[CouldaWouldaShoulda]

Annie Get Your Gun with Bernadette Peters

[verynewyorkcurious]

Avenue Q..2 months ago..21 years old, and I am still 21 years old.

I'm still not over it.

luvcaroline, that's amazing..I kinda have a feeling that my life would be so much different if I saw my first show when I was 10 (or younger). Are they bringing Promises, Promises back anytime soon?

[LimelightMike]

I can't seem to recall the first musical I ever so (ever in life), but I can definitely recall my first B'way musical: 1776 at the Gershwin (was it?) in '97. I was 10, and I sat like, first or second row while the rest of my elementary school sat mid-to-rear orchestra. I can't remember *LOVING IT* at the time, but I can distinctly recall the curtain call, and how amped I was by having Thomas Jefferson and John Adams smiling down on me then. Nowadays, I adore the show to no end. -)

[luvcaroline]

NYcurious: I would love for a revival to happen. It's an amazing score, and it's truly a shame that Bacharach never wrote another show. "Knowing When to Leave" is still one of my all time favorite songs from a musical.

[SweetSoprano]

I saw Beauty and the Beast when I was 7. I loved it!

[wonderfulwizard11]

WICKED when I was 12.

[emmadny]

ufffffff, I LOVE it¡¡¡¡
I think is one of the best musicals in the history.
All, the scenography, the songs, the story, the characters.....all
Thanks, Menken, thanks.
I love Broadway thanks to Beauty and the beast

[InThePark]

Les Mis was the first show I ever saw - on tour
RENT was the first one on Broadway for me and I was 17. Loved it!

[EugLoven]

My first Broadway musical: The Lion King in San Francisco
My first Broadway musical on Broadway: The Light in the Piazza

[billygoatgirl300]

My first show I saw was Mamma Mia, I just turned 15 the day before.

[emmadny]

[professor]

1980, Peter Pan on Broadway (with Sandy Duncan). I was in second grade, and I've been hooked on theatre ever since.

[uncageg]

The Wiz on Broadway with the original cast.

[frogs_fan85]

My first Broadway musical was the Chicago revival.. I was 19. I know I'd seen productions of musicals earlier but nothing on Broadway.

[Dre2387]

first musical and broadway musical that i saw was Crazy For You.

I was 6 and the show was incredible! I gave them a standing ovation (and I had no idea what that was at the time)

Still one of my favorite shows (if not my number 1)

[george95]

First touring Broadway show: Les Miserables at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago. Haaaaaated every single second of it. At intermission I turned to my family and said "I have no idea what is going on." I sat through the show with my playbill open to the songs page, counting down the number of songs left til the torture ended.
I went to see the show again with a high school group, and it was great--I think I was old enough to appreciate it. And now it is one of my all-time favorite shows.

My first Broadway show in New York is of course THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA on December 16 1998. Front row. Wow what a night. And rules must have changed since then about pictures because I asked an usher to take a picture of me in front of the stage and she did. hmmmmmmm.

[emmadny]

ohhhhhh, I missed Phantom when it came to Spain, I was so sad...
Perhaps I will go Broadway to see it, I love the movie (2004) and the score,

[aliciag]

My first musical was The Lion King in LA.

My first Broadway show was Rent in 2003. I was fifteen and I loved it!

[Not Barker, Todd.]

First musical was Jane Eyre at my HS. Magical.
First musical on Broadway was Mary Poppins. Ehh.
First musical on Broadway I really liked was Grey Gardens. So beautiful.