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This forum has so many different kinds of people contributing I think it would be fun to see what professional stage productions we as a group have seen.

Just list the titles and note the one you consider the best experience for you. I'll keep track of the replies and tally them and then post the list and totals for everyone to see.

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to say the least my family has seen quite a few . We live in Maryland and will take a trip to NYC to see at least 2 plays at a time:

42nd street
Nine
A Chorus Line
Wonderful Town
Spamalot
Little Women
Chicago 2 times
Dracula
Lestat
Little Shop of Horrors
Light in the Piazza
Grey Gardens--    most powerful story
Legally Blonde ----- fun musical
Beauty and The Beast
Mary Poppins
Bare
Les Miserables
Scarlet Pimpernel--- enjoyed this quite a lot
Civil War
Thourghly Modern Millie
Rent
Spring Awakenings
The Drowsy Chaperone
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
dance of the Vampires
Aida
Tarzan
Wicked
Brooklyn
Three Penny opera
Sweet charity
Lennon
I am sure I missed a few.... but this coming weekend we are going to see Curtains and Xanadu




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You may have given yourself quite a task, Gramps!  I don't think I can remember them all, but here are some:
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Man Of LaMancha
Fiddler On the Roof
Me and My Girl
Les Miserables
Aida
Avenue Q
The Boy From Oz
Cats
Phantom of the Opera (best experience, awesome staging)
Annie
Oklahoma
Hairspray
Grease
South Pacific
Camelot
Starlight Express
Kismet
Gypsy
Chicago
Wicked
Jesus Christ Superstar
The Music Man

I know there are more, but I can't remember them right now.  I have an Italian charm bracelet with charms from just the Broadway and London shows that I have seen on it.

These are just the musicals.  I don't think I can remember all the plays. 
 



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Hello there!  I have seen:
Hairspray
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The Lion King
Grease (yay!)
Les Miserables
Chicago
Annie
More I'm sure I'm forgetting at the moment.......

My favorite:  Thoroughly Modern Millie :)  I am from Minnesota,and went to NY for the day specifically to see it, and the divine Sutton Foster.  Boy, it did not disappoint---it was spectacular!  I had memorized the soundtrack, and actually being there live and hearing it in person just did it for me----I admit to some happy tears when the show started.  It was simply magical, and such a fun moment in my life; I truly look back on it as the best day ever (and I appeared on "Wheel Of Fortune" last year, ha ha!)  I have to say going to the stage door after and actually meeting Sutton and the cast was INCREDIBLE, they were all so nice!  Oooooh, I am getting SO excited to do it again in 2 months when I go see Grease!!!!  Hope you are having a nice day :)



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Here's a few of my favorites:

Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Les Miserables
Chicago
Annie (I saw this when I was 12 years old and I had dreams of being Annie)
Man Of LaMancha
Jesus Christ Superstar
A Chorus Line
Mary Poppins
Cats (First show on Broadway-I actually thought it was pretty wierd)
Dreamgirls
My Fair Lady
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Blood Brothers (First show I saw on London's West End)
The Secret Garden
Godspell
Evita


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I've seen...

Footloose
Cats
Wicked <3
Miss Saigon
Beauty and the Beast (my frist show in NYC)
Jesus Christ Superstar
Crazy For You
Footloose
Gypsy
Hello Dolly
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Children of Eden

Maybe more.. I can't remember off hand... lol and there's SOOOO many more that I would love to see like.. A Chorus Line, The Drowsy Chaperone, Evita, Hairspray... and so far I have tickets for Grease (duh!) later this month, Wicked in August, and The Lion King in January. biggrin

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So far the following productions have been noted. 7/16 2:15pm PDT

42nd street
A Chorus Line
A Little Night Music
Aida
Annie
Auntie Mame
Avenue Q
Bare
Barefoot In the Park
Beauty and The Beast
Blood Brothers
Brooklyn
Camelot
Cats
Chicago
Children of Eden
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Civil War
Crazy For You
Curtains
Dance of the Vampires
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dracula
Dreamgirls
Drowsy Chaperone
Emporer's New Clothes
Equus
Evita
Fiddler On the Roof
Footloose
Godspell
Grease
Grey Gardens
Gypsy
Hairspray
Harvey
Hello Dolly
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor...
King and I
Kismet
Legally Blonde
Lennon
Les Miserables
Lestat
Light in the Piazza
Lion King
Little Shop of Horrors
Little Women
Man Of LaMancha
Man Who Came to Dinner
Mary Poppins
Me and My Girl
Miss Saigon
Music Man
My Fair Lady
My Six Convicts
Nine
Oklahoma
Oliver
Owl and the Pussy Cat
Phantom of the Opera
Rent
Romeo and Juliet
Scarlet Pimpernel
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Skin of Our Teeth
Smoky Joe's Café
South Pacific
Spamalot
Spring Awakenings
Starlight Express
Sweet charity
Tarzan
The Boy From Oz
The Music Man
The Secret Garden
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Three Penny opera
Wicked
Wonderful Town
Xanadu
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown


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Here are some plays I've seen that aren't on the list yet:

1776
A Doll's House
A Thousand Clowns
Cabaret
Damn Yankees
Death of a Salesman
The Fantastics
Les Cages a Folles
Mark Twain Tonight!
Mother Courage and Her Children
Nobody Don't Love Yogi
Our Town

And productions of Shakespeare:

All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
Mush Ado About Nothing

The production that had the biggest impact on me was probably 1776.  It was my first show on Broadway!

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I've seen:

42nd St.
Aida (x3)
Beauty & the Beast
Fiddler on the Roof
Hairspray
Les Mis (x3)
Light in the Piazza
Lion King
Miss Saigon (x2)
Phantom of the Opera
Cabaret
Throughly Modern Millie
Wicked (x2)
Boy from Oz

My favorites are Aida, Les Mis, and Miss Saigon.  Least favorite "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Cabaret." Biggest disappointment because of my own high expectations: "Beauty and the Beast."  Would love to see Laura as Belle.  I'd also love to see Laura as Ariel in Little Mermaid.

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Wow, everyone's seen so many! Here are mine:

Beauty and the Beast
Lion King
Wicked
Tarzan
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Hairspray
The Phantom of the Opera

My favorites were definitely Hairspray and Wicked. My least favorite would have to be Tarzan, I'm not really sure why. It didn't thrill me at all. But I did go to the stage door for it and the people were really nice! I met Jenn Gambatese and got a picture. But anyway, it just wasn't my cup of tea. As for other professional productions (not Broadway), Fiddler on the Roof was my favorite but I also like The Scarlet Pimpernel.

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Think I have seen as many as Gramps if not more. Living in NYC I have been to Broadway, off Broadway, off off off Broadway, concerts, dance, just about anything you can name. Been going

There is nothing like a live performances. I think Sound of Music with Mary Martin was my first, but I could be mistaken. It's been a while since then :)

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Yes, there are quite a few, I do have a couple that aren't on the list

Annie
Beauty and the Beast
Cats
Chicago (x2)
Fiddler On the Roof (x2)
Hello Dolly
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (x4)
Les Miserables
Man of LaMancha
Phantom of the Opera
Rent
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The Odd Couple
Titantic
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Youre a Good Man Charlie Brown
42ne St.

Of course, my favorite is Joseph.......Would love to see Max as Joseph.

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I wish I had seen that many, but maybe now, I can see a few more.

I will add Grease to this list after next Tuesday.  Yeah!!

Wicked - with Kristen, Idina and Taye Diggs as a sub.
A Choris Line
Victor Victoria - With Julie Andrews when she came back (with Max age 11 I think)
Phantom X2 - Once with Max same trip
Cats X2 - First time with Betty Buckley second time with Max same trip
The Secret Garden
Damn Yankees - wtih Jerry Lewis
Titanic
The Wizard of Oz - with Rosanne - Max too
Once Upon a Mattress - with Sarah Jessica Parker - Max too
Le Mis
Starlight Express - Max was 7 when he saw this
Beauty and the Beast - Jack was 3

I think most of us have seen all the shows on the list, but this called for professional performances right?



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The list continues to grow and grow. Here are all shows listed as of 9:30am PDT, Tuesday, July 17.

Gramps/Stan

1776
42nd street
A Chorus Line
A Doll's House
A Little Night Music
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Thousand Clowns
Aida
All's Well That Ends Well
Annie
Arsenic and Old Lace
As You Like It
Aunty Mame
Avenue Q
Bare
Barefoot In the Park
Beauty and The Beast
Blood Brothers
Boy from Oz
Brooklyn
Cabaret
Camelot
Cats
Chicago
Children of Eden
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Civil War
Crazy For You
Curtains
Damn Yankees
Dance of the Vampires
Death of a Salesman
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dracula
Dreamgirls
Drowsy Chaperone
Emperor's New Clothes
Equus
Evita
Fiddler On the Roof
Footloose
Glass Menagerie
Godspell
Grease
Grey Gardens
Gypsy
Hairspray
Hamlet
Harvey
Hello Dolly
HMS Pinafore
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor...
King and I
Kismet
Legally Blonde
Lennon
Les Cages a Folles
Les Miserables
Lestat
Light in the Piazza
Lion King
Little Shop of Horrors
Little Women
Man Of LaMancha
Man Who Came to Dinner
Mark Twain Tonight!
Mary Poppins
Me and My Girl
Mikado
Miss Saigon
Mother Courage and Her Children
Much Ado About Nothing
Music Man
My Fair Lady
My Six Convicts
Nine
Nobody Don't Love Yogi
Oklahoma
Oliver
Once Upon a Mattress
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Our Town
Owl and the Pussy Cat
Phantom of the Opera
Pirates of Penzance
Producers
Pump Boys and Dinettes
Rent
Romeo and Juliet
Scarlet Pimpernel
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Show Boat
Skin of Our Teeth
Smoky Joe's Café
South Pacific
Spamalot
Spring Awakenings
Starlight Express
Sweet charity
Tarzan
The Boy From Oz
The Fantastics
The Merchant of Venice
The Odd Couple
The Secret Garden
The Wizard of Oz
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Three Penny opera
Titantic
Victor Victoria
West Side Story
Wicked
Wonderful Town
Xanadu
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

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DogsandBirds wrote:

...Think I have seen as many as Gramps if not more...


I think you have confused some other person's list with mine.  I haven't posted mine yet.

Gramps/Stan

 



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Here's my list as best I can remember it. I think the one that made the largest impression on me was Man Who Came to Dinner. I was in my teens when I saw it and it was my first exposure to the legitimate stage. I couldn't hardly believe how "real" the scenes seemed. And I have always remembered the first lines I ever heard from a professional stage actor, the opening lines in this play, "I may vomit!"

Needless to say, it brought down the house.

In a more recent viewing Joseph performed with a large youth choir singing from high bleachers off to the side of the stage in accompaniment to some of the songs. Very impressive and moving.

I'm pretty sure there were some other plays that I saw (not musicals) but I can't remember them.

Gramps/Stan



A Little Night Music
Annie
Arsenic and Old Lace
Aunty Mame
Barefoot In the Park
Camelot
Cats
Chicago
Damn Yankees
Emperor's New Clothes
Equus
Fiddler On the Roof
Glass Menagerie
Grease
Hamlet
Harvey
Hello Dolly
HMS Pinafore
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor...
King and I
Little Shop of Horrors
Man Who Came to Dinner
Miss Saigon
Music Man
Mark Twain Tonight
Mikado
My Fair Lady
My Six Convicts
Oklahoma
Oliver
Owl and the Pussy Cat
Pirates of Penzance
Pump Boys and Dinettes
Romeo and Juliet
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Show Boat
Skin of Our Teeth
Smoky Joe's Café
South Pacific
Sweet Charity
The Music Man
West Side Story

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I actually saw one that has not been listed........
The Producers... with the original stars, the only reason to see it (like Grease will be).

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Maxismylove wrote:

Wicked - with Kristen, Idina and Taye Diggs as a sub.

Wow, I would've loved to see that. above.gif

Gramps, please add Jersey Boys and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for me.

Any professional stage productions or just theater? I've also seen Stomp and Blue Man Group.

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World of Suzie Wong
Aunti Mame
Porgy and Bess
Our Town
The Out of Towners
Same Time Next Year
A Choris Line
Pippin
Man of LaMancha
Chicago
42nd St.
Witness for the Prosecution (London)
Grease-78 Grease-92
Cats
Phantom
Kismet
Equus
The Lion King
Fiddler on the Roof
Little Shop of Horrors
Smokey Joe's Cafe
Damn Yankees
Producers
Cabaret
Curtains
Mama Mia
City of Angles
Liza with a Z
                        This request brought back found memories, the play that even today I feel was 1 of the very best was Man of LaMancha. 



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Gramps, please add One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for me. Thanks!

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Stan, thanks for starting this thread. I'm amazed at as well as envious of the amount of theatre many of the posters have seen.

One of the productions I've seen this summer is "Pump Boys and Dinettes." The musical is listed here as "Pump Girls and Dinettes," which you may want to correct.

(At age 59, I think I'm too old to call anyone "Gramps"...but also old enough to have seen "Hair" in the early 70s.)

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Paikea wrote:

Maxismylove wrote:

Wicked - with Kristen, Idina and Taye Diggs as a sub.

Wow, I would've loved to see that. above.gif

AGREED! Me too!! I bet that was amazing!




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FINAL TALLY

114 different productions were listed

Most seen:

     1.  Cats
     2.  Beauty and the Beast
     3.  Tie:  Me and My Girl, Fiddler On the Roof, Les Cages a Folles,
                   Chorus Line
     4.  Tie:  Wicked, Grease, Hairspray, Footloose, 42nd Street, Damn 
                   Yankees

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Gramps wrote:

1. Cats
2. Beauty and the Beast
3. Tie: Me and My Girl, Fiddler On the Roof, Les Cages a Folles,
Chorus Line
4. Tie: Wicked, Grease, Hairspray, Footloose, 42nd Street, Damn
Yankees

Stan/gramps


Wow!  Kind of surprises that Phantom didn't make the cut!  And of course, your post on set designs reminded me of the set that was used for the London production (and probably the Broadway one as well) for The Woman In White.  They used a white background and projected the set onto it.  It was actually quite effective. But I didn't include that play on my list.  Quite forgot about it!

 



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THANKS so much Gramps. It is so kind of you to take time out of your schedule to entertain us.

No big surprise that Cats is on top. With Grease and Wicked in the top ten, I can't wait till I see them both in early Aug.

Again...............A SPECIAL THANKS TO GRAMPS!!!!!!!!

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