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What five shows that opened before you were born ...
#25re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 10:13pm
Sweeney Todd
Sunday in the Park with George
Pippin
A Little Night Music
A Chorus Line
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#26re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 11/30/04 at 10:49pm
My Fair Lady
West Side Story
Sunday in the Park with George
Camelot
The Act
#27re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:51pm
Once in a Lifetime (1930)
South Pacific (1943)
Look Back in Anger (1957)
The Odd Couple (1963)
A Chorus Line (1975)
42nd Street (1980)
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#28re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 12/1/04 at 10:16pm
Sweeney Todd
Godspell
A Chorus Line
Rocky Horror Show
Cabaret
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#29re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 12/2/04 at 12:06am
Sweeney Todd
Sunday in the Park with George
Into the Woods
Song and Dance
A Chorus Line
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#30re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 12/2/04 at 1:58am
1) Hello Dolly - Carol Channing
2) Mame - Angela Lansbury
3) Gypsy - Ethel Merman
4) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Carol Channing
5) Wonderful Town - Rosalind Russell Or Carol Channing
Also Sweeney Todd - Angela Lansbury
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Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#31re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 12/2/04 at 3:07am
Original 1957 Broadway Cast - WEST SIDE STORY
Original 1962 Broadway Cast - NO STRINGS
Original 1967 Broadway Cast - CABARET
Original 1968 Broadway Cast - HAIR
Original 1968 Broadway Cast - PROMISES, PROMISES
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#32re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 12/2/04 at 4:22am
I agree with many of yours Margo. Particularly Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie and Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina. To those I'd probably add The Corn is Green with Ethel Barrymore and Hamlet with John Barrymore.
I also want to list Bus Stop with Kim Stanley. It was on after I was born, but I would have been much too young to see it. I wish I could see it now.
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Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/03
#33re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 12/2/04 at 10:26am
Hamlet
Medea
Oedepus Rex
Coronation of Poppea
La Boheme
TWOGAAB
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Understudy Joined: 9/17/04
#34re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:36am
Just 5? In no particular order here are some I would like to have seen, more for members of the cast than quality of show or music:
Li'l Abner - Opened 11/15/56 w/Tina Louise, Julie Newmar, Charlotte Rae and others who are still active in film, TV or theater.
Valmouth (West End) - Opened 10/2/59 w/Cleo Laine, Patsy Rowlands
House of Flowers (Philadelphia) - Opened 12/24/54 w/Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll
Flahooley - Opened 5/14/51 w/Barbara Cook and the incredible Yma Sumac
Bells are Ringing - Opened 11/29/56 w/Judy Holliday, Jean Stapleton
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#35re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 12/3/04 at 12:20pm
Original West Side Story
Original Oklahoma
Original Funny Girl (W. Barbra Streisand!)
Original Man of La Mancha - sigh! Richard Kiley
Original Streetcar named Desire
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
onceadancer2
Leading Actor Joined: 5/22/03
#36re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 12/4/04 at 1:18pm
Well, as the pre-historic dinosaur on this board, born in 1921, I would have loved to see the following:
The original production of Mozart's Nozze di Fiagro and Don Giovanni
The original Black Crook
The original Red Mill
The original Mlle. Modiste
The original Naughty Marietta
The original play Romance by Edward Shelton (long forgotten)
The original Peg O' My Heart with Laurette Taylor
The original CLARENCE with Alfred Lunt and Helen Hayes
The original SALLY with Marilyn Miller
Miriam
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#37re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 12/4/04 at 4:37pm
Company - OBC
Carrie
Sweeney Todd - OBC
Sunday In the Park With George
Dear World - OBC
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#38re: what five shows opened before you were born ...
Posted: 12/4/04 at 8:17pm
Here are my top 11
The Skin of Our Teeth with Laurence Olivier as Antrobus (I know he played the role on a tour of the Pacific)
OBC of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
OBC of Anyone Can Whistle
OBC of Cabaret
OBC of Company
OBC of Follies
OBC of A Little Night Music
OBC of Pacific Overtures
OBC of Sweeney Todd
OBC of Merrily We Roll Along
OBC of Sunday in the Park With George
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