So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.~Office Space
I had a very, erm, memorable first broadway experience. When I was either 5 or 6 my grandma took me to cats. However, I'd just gotten over the flu, my parents thought I was better and let me go. I made it through the first act, however I felt sick during intermission and ran to the bathroom, where I threw up. At least i made it. I obviously left, my parents like to joke that i had good taste in theater at a young age. my second bway experience wasnty much better, i saw beauty and the beast and was terrified of the beast and spent the whole show with my head hidden.
"Don't thank your parents, if you were raised in a nurturing environment you wouldnt be in show business"--Conan O'Brien at the 2006 Emmy Awards
Mine was my best friend's birthday- age 6- and we loaded up the Volkswagon Van with six little girls and trooped into NYC to see "The Sound of Music"!! Yes, that's right-the original! I still remember every minute of that day- and now I feel really OLD!!
"I'm mad, you're mad. we're all mad"...
The Cheshire Cat
carousel, 1994, audra mcdonald's b'way debut, right? my parents picked me up from a sleepover, i woke up, i was in NYC, we were seeing a show. it was all very strange.
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
If memory serves me correctly... my first national tour was "The Sound of Music" with Marie Osmond. I was young...
My first actual show on Broadway was "Annie Get Your Gun" at the Marquis Theater with Crystal Bernard and Tom Wopat on August 14, 2001. My parents TKTS'd it; it wasn't my first choice, but a memorable first Broadway experience none the less.
"I seem to have wandered into the BRAIN load-out thread... "
-best12bars
"Sorry I am a Theatre major not a English Major"
-skibumb5290
Mine was seeing Grease on Broadway with my best friend and her parents as their present to me on my 11th birthday. I loved it so much, and I of course still have the playbill and ticket.
Ummm...first Musical I saw was Les Mis in Toronto when I was like 10. First Broadway show was Beauty and the Beast when I went to NY with my high school.
I wondered how long it would take for this question to come around AGAIN.
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"