| re: First Broadway show you ever saw this is not a poll | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 09:43 am EDT 08/05/24 | |
| In reply to: re: First Broadway show you ever saw this is not a poll - EvFoDr 09:21 am EDT 08/04/24 | |
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| I was probably 16 or 17...I was doing a college tour of NYU and had convinced my parents to stay afterward and take the subway uptown to see a Broadway show. I had seen the movie several times by that point, so I knew the basic story, but i chose it because it was such a well known show and had recently announced that it was closing after so many years, something people didn't think was even possible. As I recall it was a bit hard to follow from the balcony because we were so high up and far away and ACL doesn't feature a lot of spectacle that plays to the balcony. It was a bunch of tiny people far far away. But I loved it and, shortly after that, started coming up for day trips on a fairly regular basis. Some of the first things I saw after ACL were GRAND HOTEL, CITY OF ANGELS, and GYPSY. As a teen, I'd never felt so at home in a place I'd never been to before and that was a weird sensation. I ended up not being able to afford to go to NYU, even after a generous financial aid package (it was 30K a year in those days), but I did finally move to the city in 1996 and to Hell's Kitchen in 2000, where I've been ever since. |
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