| re: First Broadway show you ever saw this is not a poll | |
| Posted by: EvFoDr 09:21 am EDT 08/04/24 | |
| In reply to: re: First Broadway show you ever saw this is not a poll - JereNYC 03:50 pm EDT 08/02/24 | |
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| Posting mine in response to yours because I am curious how old you were and what you thought about ACL? I also saw my first Broadway shows in 1989 and wanted SO desperately to be taken to see ACL. It opened the year I was born, and well... I grew up dancing around the living room to the album. Very meta I know :-) I felt a great affinity for it. However, I have an aunt who lived in NYC and was in the theatre scene and she insisted it not be on my list becauase it was "tired late in the run". That may well have been true, but I don't know that 14-year old me would have noticed that. I've always been sad I didn't see the original Broadway production. My first was Les Miz at tbe Broadway. We sat in the very last row of the orchestra for $50 a ticket, which was then the highest price on Broadway. After moving to NYC I would become involved with this show and got to attend the closing performance. It was a spectacular full circle moment. I guess the bragging rights from that trip is that I was one of the few to see Jerome Robbins Broadway. LOL. It had recently won the Tony and it was my Aunt's picks in lieu of A Chorus Line. Well, talk about tired cause I fell asleep. One of the least successful, and in my mind, least interesting Tony winning Best Musicals ever. We capped it off with Phantom, which was special for me because Steve Barton was still playing Raoul and I was thrilled to see someone who was on the OCR. And my Christine was (then unknown to me) Rebecca Luker. May they both rest in peace. |
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