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What was your first and last show?
Joined: 12/31/69
#50re: re: re: re: re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/25/03 at 10:44pm
First: Floradora at the Casino Theatre
Just kidding, of course....
First: Company, National company, Julie Wilson & George Chakaris
First on B'way: A Little Night Music (2x including last perf.)
Last on B'way: Hairspray
Last to day: Once Upon a Time in New Jersey
Yours for a better Broadway
Belter
Stand-by Joined: 6/13/03
#51re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/26/03 at 4:28am
First live musical ever: Annie Get Your Gun
First play I was in: Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves
First tour of a play: Frank Langella's Dracula in San Francisco
First tour of a musical: Beatlemania
Show that inspired me to be an actress: A Chorus Line, first national tour, San Francisco
First Broadway show in NYC: Phantom of the Opera, OBC, May 1988
Last Broadway show seen: Movin' Out
Last show seen: Over the Rainbow, the lyrics of E.Y. Harburg at the Lucille Lortel
Show I've seen the most: Man of La Mancha. Never on Bdway, though. My brother plays Don Quixote all the time.
Favorite musical I never saw on Broadway: Sweeney Todd
Only sitting President of the US I've ever seen: Gerald Ford (at the Iowa State Fair, 1974) ... wait, no one asked that!! LOL
There's an advantage to waiting to answer a question!! LOL
#52re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/26/03 at 7:17am
First Broadway show: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT ... starring David Cassidy (1982?)
Last Broadway show: NINE (current revival)
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#53re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/26/03 at 9:47am
I know the first show I saw in New York was Godspell. I don't know if that qualifies as a "Broadway" show 'cause it was w a y uptown at the time. ('75)
Last show is tougher to remember... I think the Marilyn Monroe musical, just before it closed. (I've seen a lot of stuff, just before it closed... maybe I'm a jinx? Nah, stuff's managed to close without me being around!)
bongoboy
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#54re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/26/03 at 12:34pm
First: Raisin
Last: Long Day's Journey
Next: Nine & Gypsy (This weekend)
Most: Rent (4 times)
NBC
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/03
#55re: re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/26/03 at 12:52pm
First: The Wiz - though I also saw a tour of Lorelei somewhere at some point - God does that date me - that might have been first, it's a little hazy...but The Wiz is the first Broadway show!
Last: Movin' Out
Next: hopefully Man of LaMancha
Most: Chicago (the revival)
"I cried during the Frug." - MC
#56re: re: re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/26/03 at 1:00pm
first: AIDA
last: Lion King
next: Phantom of the Opera or The Producers
waiting for: Hairspray and Wicked
i got a late start.....
*dramatic pause*kick-ball-change*riff/ad-lib high note*
gotta love cher
Updated On: 6/26/03 at 01:00 PM
Chorus Member Joined: 12/31/69
#57re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/26/03 at 11:23pm
Well I love my parents for exposing me to the magic early!
First: The Paper Bag players (I was 3)
I remember running around the apt singing "What came first the chicken or the egg." My parents knew I would be hooked.
First Broadway: Hair(5 ) Open minded parents
Last: Star F*CKers- Pass the Captin Crunch
Updated On: 6/26/03 at 11:23 PM
Amneris
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#58re: re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 12:40pm
First: Starlight Express at the age of 5
Last: Hairspray 4-6 shows a week
ShineOn
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#59re: re: re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 2:33pm
First: "Chicago" (OBC revival, when I was 12)
Last: "Chicago" (*sigh* That doesn't sound good on my behalf... I also saw "Gypsy" and "Urinetown" last week -- "Chicago" just happened to be the last thing I saw last week.)
MANY a musical in between. I'm seeing "Nine" next Thursday and trying for "Long Day's Journey."
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#60re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 2:38pm
First show: Fiddler on the Roof (1990)
Last show: Les Mis (the second to last performance)
Next: possibly Aida or Phantom
Here's another question - what show have you seen the most times? For me, it's Phantom - 14 (and counting)
Jen
ShineOn
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#61re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 2:56pm
I've seen "Chicago" the most -- 12 times.
I've seen "Millie" 9 times, which is alarming, considering it hasn't been open as long as "Chicago."
I've seen "Urinetown" 5 times. There have been other shows I've seen multiple times... (*cries as she remembers Albertine*) Granted, some I may not be so proud about, but saw it more than once all the same.
I'm so going to "Millie" this week. *sighs* Must... see... Marc... =O
"You! You are the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber! And you, well, I just plain don't like you."
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#62re: re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 3:01pm
I rarely see shows multiple times. I don't have the discretionary income to do so, and there are so many new shows (counting off-B'way and cabaret and academic and regional) to see. I do see shows again if performers of interest have joined the cast.
For instance, how is Leslie Uggams in MILLIE?!?!
P.S. I do watch reruns on TV over and over again. Go figure.
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys.
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times. I guarantee that at some point
one or both of us will want to get out.
But I also guarantee that if I don't
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the rest of my life..."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#63re: re: re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 3:28pm
First show - Les Miserables 1990 Pantages Theatre Hollywood CA with Garry Morris as Valjean
Last Show - Miss Saigon Newly Vamped national Tour Pasadena CA.
Next Show - Who knows? Maybe The Producers, CA.
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#64re: re: re: re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 3:39pm
Chicago I have seen at a high number I am unwilling to disclose.
There are very few shows I have only seen once.. actually I think there are only two shows that I only saw once while they were open -- Noises Off and The Dinner Party
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#65re: re: re: re: re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 3:51pm
I have also seen Chicago a ludicrous number of times, and I, too, am unwilling to disclose.
The Rocky Horror Show comes in at this point a distant second, and I'm not disclosing that number, either!
I've seen La Boheme, Lion King, Mamma Mia, Beauty and the Beast and Phantom only once each, but I think all the other musicals currently playing I've seen at least twice. (Except Rent, which I haven't gotten around to yet.) Sometimes because of cast changes, or sometimes because I've only seen it in previews and I want to know how it's changed since then. (Though with the exception of Chicago all my viewing numbers are still in the single digits!)
But it was Rocky Horror which started me on my downward spiral, before that the show I'd seen the most was still Chicago...a whopping four times.
"I cried during the Frug." - MC
Updated On: 6/27/03 at 03:51 PM
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#66What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 3:53pmI have heard recordings of Gary Morris but never seen him act (has he done any musical theatre besides LES MIZ and LA BOHEME---Ronstandt as opposed to Luhrman version?). Is he still recording pop songs in Nashville? what kind of stage presence did he have? his voice is really incredible...
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys.
"I guarantee that we'll have tough
times. I guarantee that at some point
one or both of us will want to get out.
But I also guarantee that if I don't
ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for
the rest of my life..."
#67re: re: re: re: re: re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 4:08pmum, the most I've seen of a show is twice. The show was "Epic Proportions". I usually don't see shows more than once because I live so very far away from NYC so it is very rare that I go to see a show more than once. How I got to see "Epic Proportions" twice was because Kristin Chenoweth was sick the first time I saw it and my dad felt sorry that I missed seeing her.
#68re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 4:13pm
I've seen Cabaret (the current revival) 5 times -- 4 times in San Francisco when it was on tour, and once in New York on Broadway. That's the most I've seen one show.
~D
BudFrump23
Broadway Star Joined: 5/20/03
#69What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 5:32pm
Let's see...
First: Rent
Last: Hairspray
Next: Thoroughly Modern Millie
I'm as jumpy as a virgin at a prison rodeo!
#70re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 6:17pm
First show: Sunset Blvd.
Last show: Hairspray
Nine (second time!) is my next one: this coming Thursday!!!!
"Peace! The charm's wound up."
--Macbeth
#71re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 6:55pm
First Touring Show: The Phantom Of The Opera
Last Touring Show: Beauty And The Beast
Next Touring Show That I Will See: Miss Saigon
First Broadway Show: The Phantom Of The Opera
Last Broadway Show: Dance of the Vampires
Next Broadway Show That I Will See: Hairspray
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SONDHEIM8
Understudy Joined: 6/23/03
#72re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 7:27pmGARY MORRIS was outstanding as Valjean. He has a rich powerful voice that I must confessed surprised me. He really should do more Broadway shows
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#73re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/27/03 at 11:42pm
Most times: Forbidden Bway 7 times
Millie: 4 times
PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#74re: re: re: What was your first and last show?
Posted: 6/28/03 at 10:35pm
First show: Grease touring version
First Broadway Show in NYC: Cabaret w/ Heather Laws (u/s) and Raul Esparza.
Last Broadway Show in NYC: Cabaret (haven't been back since early December)
Next Show: hopefully Gypsy
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