the show that got you hooked
the show that got you hooked
#0the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 1:38pm
so there you are, innocent as pie, watching some odd musical movie or taking your seat in the 3rd row of the balcony. and by the end of the show, you can't believe how hooked you've been.
i've loved musicals since i was about 8...i got mary poppins on VHS for christmas and i was obsessed. then that summer, i saw "grease" and thought stockard channing was the most perfect human being EVER.
i have liked them for a while now, but all my loves came from movies. i think it was seeing "the rocky horror show" 2 and a half years ago, done locally, that really opened me up, and i realized that it was what i wanted to do with my life. since then i have seen 2 shows in NYC on Broadway (hey i'm canadian and have only been once!) and in a little under 5 weeks i am going back and seeing "Dirty Rotten Scoundrals."
my favorite musical is into the woods though. 
MWAH! -Meghan
NYC PART III: 24 sleeps!
Andre:I'll miss you.
Muriel: You will?
Andre: Only if you leave.
NYC PART III: 24 sleeps!
Andre:I'll miss you.
Muriel: You will?
Andre: Only if you leave.
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#1re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 1:41pmRENT. First saw it in 1997. I thought I was not going to like it. I could not have been more incorrect. Since then, been hooked.
#2re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 1:42pm
Aida.
It was the first time I saw a show that I truly loved, and loved so much that I remember leaving the theatre and saying to my mother "I want to turn right back around, go back in, and see it again." I had never experienced that before.
#3re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 1:44pmIt was 1994. And it was Carousel. And I understand that's sort of random, but seriously, folks--Audra McDonald.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#4re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 1:45pmBIG
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#5re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 1:46pm
RENT seems to be one of those shows that just, sinks its claws into you. the first time i heard it i was in love with it. since then i have had those moments where i sitck my nose up in the air and say "oh, rent. well. everyone likes that!"
then suddenly, la vie boheme comes on my itunes and i get chills.
i haven't heard aida. but i want to so bad.
MWAH! -Meghan
NYC PART III: 24 sleeps!
Andre:I'll miss you.
Muriel: You will?
Andre: Only if you leave.
NYC PART III: 24 sleeps!
Andre:I'll miss you.
Muriel: You will?
Andre: Only if you leave.
#6re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 1:46pmA combination of Les Miserables and the world premiere of Jane Eyre. Both occured in 1995 when I was 10 years old.
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#7re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 1:47pmThe Wizard of Oz. I was 3.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#9re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 1:55pm
OOOH. How could I forget, "The Wizard of Oz!" and "Peter Pan"
since then i have learned that gee, the music to peter pan is god awful and i would rather shove an ice pick in my eye than hear mary martin sing "i gotta crow" ... but the version i saw was spunky and fun and NOT RACIST! whoop!
MWAH! -Meghan
NYC PART III: 24 sleeps!
Andre:I'll miss you.
Muriel: You will?
Andre: Only if you leave.
NYC PART III: 24 sleeps!
Andre:I'll miss you.
Muriel: You will?
Andre: Only if you leave.
#10re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 1:55pm
Well...mine came in more of a secession of events that happened over a period of a few months. I had always liked performing myself. I sang in church as a child and was in all of the church plays. I also took theatre arts my sophomore year in high school for fun. However, what got me hooked on musical theatre was:
1) I was cast in a very successful community theatre production of The Sound of Music. I was in the chorus, but through this show I met my future voice teacher. I also was given a lot of compliments on my voice and encouragement by some of the lead actors I looked up to that made me excited that I might could suceed at performing.
2) I went and saw the national tour of Les Miserables.
3) In the next show I was cast as Hero in Forum at the same theatre.
4) My high school chorus went to NYC and saw three Broadway musicals.
"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
#11re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 1:59pm
When the First National Tour of Les Miserables came through Atlanta, I was hopelessly and unrequitedly in love with the boy who sat across from me in Algebra class. The television commercial had Linzi Hately singing "On my own, pretending he is beside me" and that was it. That one line went right to the center of my little gay heart and the world was never the same again.
(I refer to the OLC of Les Mis as my "gateway" cast album.)
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
#12re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 1:59pm
My general love for musicals began with "Les Miserables". I saw it when I was 9 years old (this was back in 1989, so, yes I'm 26 years old). I'm not a big fan of that show now, but it's what sparked my love for theater in the first place.
#13re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 2:02pm
Evita, with Patti LuPone, 1980.
Not too many shows have come close to that first experience.
#14re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 2:04pmLes Misérables. My borther got the music in 1982 when I was 4. I got hooked. Still listen to it 24 years later !
In my heart, I found the answered dream,
and in my soul I found the song, and in my friends
I found the magic, the love,
the moon up above- they were mine, all mine, all along..!
broadway_baby4
Stand-by Joined: 12/5/05
Bohemian1232
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/26/05
#16re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 2:07pmI had really enjoyed a lot of shows, but my first all out obsession was Rent. I listened to the OBCR almost 24/7 for a while.
"Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead."
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#17re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 2:10pmGrease, the musiacal, and later seeing a production theater.
Attendthetale331
Featured Actor Joined: 1/8/06
#18re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 2:13pmThe show that got me hooked to theater was when I did a production of Les Miserables, thats when i started to love theater, when i worked with a broadway production team, thats what got me obsessed.
"Listen to the song that I sing and trust me..."
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#19re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 2:15pmI would have to say seeing NLB as Freddy on the Tony Awards got me hooked. I mean I liked listening to broadway music before, but never really loved it. But after seeing him I was like, I HAVE TO HAVE THIS CD AND WHO IS THAT GUY?! Also I really enjoyed the two b-way musicals I saw before that which was Hairspray and Grease.
#20re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 2:20pm
The musical that hooked me was the movie version of "The Sound of Music". I was in 6th grade. That movie was, and still is, pure magic to me.
The show (live Broadway) that got me hooked was (oh lord) Phantom of the Opera. It had already been running for a few years when I saw it as a 12 year old.
#21re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 2:23pmAll the old movie musicals got me early on. They didn't have them on DVD then and I would just wait for one of them to be on TV so I could watch, and between times listen to the cast albums over and over and acting them out with my sisters. The ones that really hooked me were (are!) West Side Story, Carousel, Gypsy, and Oklahoma.
"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys
#22re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 2:37pm
My father is a director and I grew up attending musicals almost weekly, but it was The Secret Garden in 1991 that blew me away. Looking back I'm not all that enchanted with it, but at the time I was amazed. My sisters and mother were dead tired from a week in the city and slept through it, and I quietly fell in love with theater.
In any other crowd I'd claim it was Tommy several years later that hooked me on musicals, but the truth is it was Daisy Egan.
livelife
Stand-by Joined: 2/13/06
#23re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 2:56pmsound of music.....haha i WAS 8
tell me more, tell me more...how much dough did he spend?
#24re: the show that got you hooked
Posted: 3/6/06 at 3:01pmGypsy and Bye Bye Birdie when I was about 14.
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