If you could go back in time...
If you could go back in time...
#1re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 12:04amIf I could go back in time, even without the requirement of a performance, I would go back to the 1600s in England to see an original staging of a Shakespeare play, as directed by Shakespeare. So many things are done with his work that I think it would be absolutely fascinating to see how he originally intended it. Plus, so much of theater today relies on technology that it would be cool to see how they did an effective performance without even electric lights.
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#2re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 12:14amThe original cast of Dreamgirls would be my first choice.
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NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#3re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 12:38am
WOW! There are many!
Basicaly all of Nathan Lane's shows
Ethel Merman in Call Me Madame, Gypsy, and Hello Dolly!
Robert Klein and Lucie Arnaz in They're Playing Our Song
Godspell 2000 off-broadway revival (who says they have to be old?)
Sarah Jessica Parker in Annie
Tony Roberts and Stockard Channing in They're Playing Our Song
Julie Andrews in My Fair Lady
Rosie O'Donnell in Grease
Sandy Duncan in Chicago
and many many many many many others!
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#4re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 12:43am
Patti Lupone in Evita
OBC Sweeney Todd
Ethel Merman in anything
OBC Dreamgirls
OBC Urinetown (I know it's recent, but I didn't see it.)
Assassins, both the OBC and the revival (never saw either, which breaks my heart)
And although I saw it, I'd LOVE to revisit the OBC of Ragtime.
#5re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 12:51am
I
would go back in time
EXACTLY
25 years ago
today.
And I
would see
the final performance
of the original cast
of Merrily We Roll Along
on Broadway.
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
rockfenris2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#6re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 5:57am
Well, first of all, I'd make sure the Broadway "Dance of the Vampires" never happened, and Warner Bros. produced "Batman: The Musical" but no one wants to hear about that, so.........
The opening night of "Sweeney Todd". Just imagine !!
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#7re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 6:47am
I'd want to watch the last week or two of the original "West Side Story" rehearsals along with the first few previews. On the way back I'd stop off to watch a few performances of "Carrie".
Unfortunately this would create a temporal paradox, and when I returned to the present day Broadway would be solely dedicated to musicals based on Stephen King novels. I'd catch a matinee of "Cujo" and line up at the "Salem's Lot" cancellation line while I pondered what to do about this.
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#8re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 6:51am
Dreamgirls OBC for sure..in a heart beat!
Evita with Lupone..a good second choice
The Wiz with Diana ross and Michael jackson.. lol
#9re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 6:55amCarrie, DUH!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
avab802
Broadway Star Joined: 5/17/06
#10re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:25am
OBC RENT
OBC Ragtime (even though I saw it I would love to see it again)
Bernadette Peters in Into the Woods & Sunday in the Park
#11re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:32am
Norbert in Rent, Wicked, The Last 5 Years, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels...
Yeah...I'm obsessed.
LollyNYC
Understudy Joined: 10/9/05
#12re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:41am
Michelle Kittrell as Sandy in Grease
hilarious!!!
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#13re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:46am
Merman in GYPSY or DOLLY
Martin and Pinza in SOUTH PACIFIC
Mary Martin onstage in PETER PAN
Preston in MUSIC MAN (I did get to see him in MACK AND MABEL).
Verdon in SWEET CHARITY
#14re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 10:28pmif i could only choose one, it would definitely be MY FAIR LADY!
RIP glebby <3
#15re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 10:30pm
The OBC of:
Dreamgirls
My Fair Lady
Ragtime (I never got to see it on Broadway)
"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
#16re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 10:31pmI'd see the OBC of Titanic, the OOBC of The Last Five Years, and the OBC of Wicked (I've only seen it with replacements, and a lot of people say the best cast was the original, so I'd wanna see for myself)
#17re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 10:33pmThe original off-Broadway cast of "The Last Five Years," as well as the original Broadway cast of "Parade." I love me some Jason Robert Brown.
broadway_baby4
Stand-by Joined: 12/5/05
#18re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 10:35pm
I have to agree with the OBC of Dreamgirls, and I would also like to add Sherie and Norbert in The Last Five Years (I'm listening to it right now, actually)
Edit: Sorry, Dirty Rotten Scoundrel, I guess I read your mind there! lol.
Updated On: 11/28/06 at 10:35 PM
#19re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 10:40pm
OBC of Company
"The Merm" in basically anything
But of course my first choice would be...
Fanny Brice in the original Ziegfeld Follies.
Oh. My. God. That would be a dream come true.
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#20re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 10:47pm
Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie
Ethel Merman in Gypsy
Bernadette Peters in Gypsy, SITPWG, ITW
Jennifer Holiday in Dreamgirls
Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd
One of the performances of Anyone Can Whistle's original production.
Ragtime OBC
Parade OBC
The Last 5 Years with Norbert and Sherie
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#21re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 10:51pm
RENT OBC, no contest.
But, good call Yero, that would be really interesting. I'll go with you.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#22re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 11:01pm
Oy! Do I feel old as fu*k. Aside from Laurette Taylor in THE GLASS MENAGERIE and Merman in GYPSY...I've seen everyone of those shows you guys listed, from SJP in ANNIE, LuPone in EVITA to Lansbury in MAME (83 revival) and SWEENEY TODD, then all those others, like Chita and Gwen in CHICAGO (14 times! -- I was 10 and sick in the head!) and the OBC of DREAMGIRLS (14 times between 12/81 to summer of 82!).
Double-oy!
#23re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 11:08pm
This is a thread topic that I have toyed around with myself.
My choices would be:
The original Ziegfield production of "Showboat"
"Anyone Can Whistle"
"Carrie"
"Chicago" with Gwen, Chita, and Jerry Orbach
Ethel Merman in "Gypsy"
Bea Lillie in anything, but most likely her stint in "Auntie Mame"
Gertrude Lawrence in "Lady In The Dark"
"The Golden Apple"
Barbara Cook in the original production of "Candide"
The original "Follies" with Alexis Smith on that Boris Aronson set
See Bernadette and Mandy in "Sunday In The Park With George" again
and
"Grand Hotel" with the original cast again
Those would be Heaven...
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#24re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 11:14pmI forgot to go back to see the Original West Side Story and the original Our Town.
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Stand-by Joined: 3/22/06
#25re: If you could go back in time...
Posted: 11/28/06 at 11:15pmI would love to have seen Julie Andrews in anything. She sings like an angel.
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