I would see Wayne Brady in Chicago, but if you would like a show from the very past, I would probably want to see either the original cast of Fiddler or the cast that my mother saw with Bette Midler in her debut as Tzeitel.
Better yet, I would see A Chorus Line or Les Miz. I already saw the latter, but I was very young, so I had a lot of trouble understanding it.
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
I'd like to go back and see any of the shows I saw as a teenager. Just to see if my opinion was any different.
I'd like to see the original "Oliver" to see Georgia Brown at work.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
I would also love to see the closing night of "Funny Girl," when Streisand came back to play Fanny Brice just one last time...
But I think SHOW BOAT's opening night might take the cake for me now... The idea of seeing a Ziegfeld-produced masterpiece in 1927, with everyone dressed up in their finery to attend... in the day when Broadway was BROADWAY... then sitting down to watch Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Charles Winninger, Edna May Oliver, etc. ?
To die for.
But, Rath, experiencing Laurette Taylor's Amanda in GLASS MENAGERIE would also be a Broadway lover's ultimate dream. My mother and father both saw her in it... and I will just have to be content listening to them try to describe it.
Oh, Hell, I can't come up with my own answer to the question! How can I expect any of you to do it?
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
Any performance of "The Act". It has a smashing score, and it apparently was the height of Liza Minnelli's Broadway career. And God knows we'll never see it again; the book must have been atrocious.
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
Along with quite a few of the choices here, I'd like to add:
Bert Lahr in Foxy, 1964 at the Ziegfeld Theatre. One veteran theatergoer told me it received the biggest laugh he's ever heard in over 50 years of theatregoing. (The laugh was for a moment where Bert Lahr, being chased by greedy prospectors, raced across the stage and in his fear, appeared to climb up the proscenium arch of the theatre.)
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Most likely, opening night of RENT on Broadway, not for the cast (because I'll get to see them in the upcoming movie JOY) but to experience that victorious night, especially with the absence of Jonathan Larson.
Q: What is the most weirdest or funniest thing a fan has asked you?
Joe Flanigan, Stargate Atlantis: When a fan asked me for help with his grammar. I'm available.
AL JOLSON :The man WAS Broadway in the early twentieth century. I would love to see him live and see if he lives up to the legend.
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man