What five shows that opened before you were born ...
What five shows that opened before you were born ...
JLagow
Chorus Member Joined: 5/20/03
#0What five shows that opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 4:42pm
would you most like to have seen? Mine probably would be (no particular order):
1. Gypsy with Ethel
2. Original production of The Golden Apple
3. Original production of Carnival
4. Original production of Promises Promises
5. Original production of Anyone Can Whistle
#1re: What five shows that opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 4:46pm
Pippin
Godspell
Jesus Christ Superstar
Hair
Evita
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#2re: What five shows that opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 4:52pm
Original GYPSY
Original cast of A CHORUS LINE
Original cast of CATS
Off-Broadway (original production) LITTLE SHOP
Original cast of FIDDLER
#3re: What five shows that opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 4:54pm
Little Shop with Ellen Greene
Original Man of La Mancha
Gypsy with Angela Lansbury
Little Night Music
If I could find a real life place like Tiffany's then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name! - Holly Golightly
#4re: What five shows that opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 4:57pm
Show Boat
Oklahoma
Gypsy
Hair
West Side Story
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#5re: What five shows that opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 5:44pm
Sweeney with Angela
OBC of Into the Woods opened the YEAR I was born
OBC of MyFir Lady
OBC of Chorus Line
OBC of Gypsy
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6re: What five shows that opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 5:48pm
Gypsy w/ Merman
Gypsy w/ Lansbury
Evita w/ LuPone
Mame w/ Lansbury
Song & Dance w/ Peters
Musetta1957
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#7re: What five shows that opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 5:49pm
Babes in Arms
110 in the Shade
A Chorus Line OBC
Jesus Christ Superstar OBC
Hair OBC
#8re: What five shows that opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 5:50pm
Original cast of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Second cast with Ms. Stritch would be all right too)
Original cast of Streetcar Named Desire
Original cast of My Fair Lady
Original cast of The Lark (I adore Julie Harris)
Original cast of Annie Get Yor Gun
#9re: What five shows that opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 5:57pm
-Hair
-Fiddler
-Jesus Christ Superstar
-West Side Story
-Godspell
"Learn how to laugh.
Learn how to love.
Learn how to live.
That's my style."
-Follies
#10re: What five shows that opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:03pm
West Side Story
Carousel
Sound of Music
Gypsy
Hello, Dolly
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#11re: What five shows that opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:07pm
Original Production of FOLLIES (One month after I was born, but still...)
Original COMPANY
Original A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
The Peter Brook A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (before 1971? not sure)
And ummmmmm....THE GOLDEN APPLE?
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#12re: What five shows that opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:26pm
How about ten?
-- Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie
-- Brando and Tandy in Streetcar Named Desire
-- Opening night performance of Blizstein's The Cradle Will Rock (when the cast performed from the audience)
-- Porgy and Bess (the original Theatre Guild production and the '53 revival starring Leontyne Price and Cab Calloway)
-- Threepenny Opera (1956 original off-Broadway cast, including Lotte Lenya and Bea Arthur)
-- The Orson Welles-John Houseman "Voodoo" Macbeth
-- Othello with Paul Robeson, Uta Hagen and Jose Ferrer
-- Genet's The Blacks with its original US cast (James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Maya Angelou, Roscoe Lee Browne, Esther Rolle et al)
-- Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina
-- Ethel Merman in Gypsy
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#13re: What five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:29pm
Jesus Christ Superstar
Evita
Sunday in the Park With George
POTO
and...I believe even Les Mis
Yep...I'm young.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
wiggum2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/03
#14re: What five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:42pm
Mame with Angela Lansbury
Gypsy with the Merm and Angela
Follies
Company
Evita( I was 3 when it opened)
A little night music
Anyone Can Whistle
My fair lady with Julie Andrews
#15re: What five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 7:32pm
Opening night of Porgy and Bess **le sigh**
Opening night of Oklahoma!
Opening night of West Side Story
Opening night of Hair
Opening night of Jesus Christ Superstar **le sigh**
Opening night of A Streetcar Named Desire
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#16re: What five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 7:33pm
OBC My Fair Lady
OBC A Chorus Line
OBC Les Miserable
OBC Once on This Island (was open the year I was born)
Godspell
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#17re: What five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 7:44pm
1. Original West Side Story
2. Original Annie Get Your Gun
3. Original Gypsy
4. Original South Pacific
5. Original Carousel
Poster Emeritus
#18re: What five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 7:50pm
1) OLC "My Fair Lady"
2) OBC CATS
3) OBC "Camelot"
4) original off-B'way LSOH
5) OBC "Sweeney Todd"
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#19re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 7:59pm
musicals in reverse order from nearest to my birth:
1. buck white (a musical with muhammad ali)
2. jimmy (an 8 performance wonder)
3. oh calcutta! (ahhh, another appropriate title)
4. dear world (with angela lansbury!)
5. canterbury tales (lord i did this show in college, cast for my ability to belch on ccue as the filthy miller)
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
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...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
MaTakeALookAtMe
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/13/04
#20re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 8:04pm
1. Gypsy with Merman
2. Streetcar with Brando/Tandy
3. Hello Dolly
4. Man of La Mancha
5. The Producers
Updated On: 11/30/04 at 08:04 PM
#21re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 8:06pm
West Side Story
Godspell
Little Shop of Horrors
Sweeney Todd
Carousel
~Steven
MusicMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#22re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 9:28pm
Blackbirds of 1928
Chu Chin Chow
The Cohan and Harris Minstrels
Floradora
Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies of 1910
and for good measure,
The Black Crook
Updated On: 11/30/04 at 09:28 PM
#23re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 9:34pm
Hello, Dolly! with Carol Channing (the 1st time)
Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand
Evita with Patti Lupone
Brigadoon - OBC
42nd Street - OBC
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#24re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 9:51pm
Funny Girl-OBC
Company-OBC
Follies-OBC
Cabaret-OBC
West Side Story-OBC
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