Pete Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Saw Book of Mormon over the weekend, which reminded me of all the plays I've managed to see over the years. (I'm old and live in NYC. It's a lot.) Here's my list... what you got? Quote Comin' Uptown Annie Fiddler on the Roof Doug Henning and His World of Magic Big River Cabaret Little Shop of Horrors Twelfth Night Vampire Lesbians of Sodom Ragtime Largely New York Fool Moon Kiss Me Kate Blue Man Group Boeing Boeing Top Dog Underdog God of Carnage One Man Two Guvnors Something Rotten! Fiddler on the Roof (2nd production) Waitress Kinky Boots Book of Mormon Looking forward to everyone's lists... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 On broadway/nyc, just spamalot. Lots of shakespeare everywhere, from stratford to college to wolf trap. I saw some play about Elvis in the London west end in 1986. Have no idea what it was called now. If we extend this to theatre and not just plays, #1 is seeing Ricky Jay in DC in a room that sat maybe 200 people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red is Dead Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 The producers - twice. once in manchester with peter Kaye playing Roger De Bris which was awesome stuff. Shrek the musical Macbeth. Midsummer nights dream Waiting for godot with Stewart and McKellan. Have also got tickets to see the two harry potter plays on 23rd Feb next year in London. It's not exactly theatre, but cirque du soleil, twice at the royal albert hall. Plus, at highschool, I was lighting manager for the school productions - smike, godspell, sweeney todd, bugsy malone....usual high school shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 SEEN: On Broadway: Peter & The Starcatcher Professional & touring productions: Phantom of the Opera Sweeney Todd Les Miserables Avenue Q (twice) Rent Future Thinking Hedwig & The Angry Inch Local/Community: Hamlet (Clown version) Hedwig & The Angry Inch A number of others who I can't remember High School Productions: 7 Keys to Baldpate Godspell PERFORMED: Carousel Anything Goes Taming of the Shrew Bottom's Fantastic Dream (variation on a Midsummer Night's Dream) Romeo & Juliet 42nd Street (twice) Dark of the Moon The Miracle Worker The Adventures of Captain Neato-Man The Uninvited The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd Three Murders and It's Only Monday Annie Get Your Gun And a bunch more: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Broadway: Annie Get Your Gun (Bernadette Peters was fantastic.) The Music Man (With Will from Will&Grace as Professor Hill.) Phantom of the Opera Mama Mia The Producers (I think someone from Coach was in it?) Touring productions visiting Philly, I've seen Phantom and Mama Mia a few more times, as well as Rent. I've seen quite a bit of community theater, but off the top of my head I recall really excellent local versions of Fences, Sleuth, and Hairspray. The number of High School productions I've seen would be almost impossible to figure. I know my mom kept all of the old programs, but it felt like we went to one every week when I was a kid. It was mostly the usual suspects (West Side Story, Grease, Guys and Dolls...) We benefited from living in an area where a lot of schools had very prestigious and well funded theater programs. I did Summer theater when I was 12/13 and performed in Fame (where I was the dick actor who drops out and ends up waiting tables) and That's Entertainent! (where among other things I got to be a T-Bird and the Coach from Damn Yankees who sings You've Gotta Have Heart.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 A disappointingly low amount... A Christmas Carol The Crucible The Hollow (Agatha Christie) Hamlet (Shakespeare in the Park) and a Mrs Brown's Boys play way back in the day in Dublin before the TV shows existed. Most of these have been in the last couple years as I'm trying to go to shows more often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 My fiancee is the theater geek, I just get dragged along. In the past few years we've seen: Cradle Will Rock Wicked An Ideal Husband Othello Seussical We've had tickets for both Book of Mormon and Kinky Boots but had to miss them for health/surgery reasons. We have tickets to see Hamilton in Chicago on her birthday this year so that's our next show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 In a related note, in a few weeks I'll be auditioning for the part of Moonface Martin in "Anything Goes" at our local community dinner theatre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSC Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Yea I guess this this makes the most sense to post here - Got Hamilton tickets for my birthday in December for its run at the Pantages in LA! Pretty stoked for that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 We saw Hamilton in Chicago on Saturday. It was really goddamned good and lived up to the hype. The dude that played Lafayette/Jefferson was amazing and is apparently only a junior in college. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBeard Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 I don't get to the theatre as much as I'd like but I've seen some fantastic adaptations over the past couple of years at the Lowry in Salford - 12 Angry Men, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time and A Farewell To Arms were all great. Saw a good staging of Glengarry Glen Ross and Mr Happiness a few years back too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Campbell Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 The wife's former company got tickets for everyone (and a guest) to see Wicked at the Landmark theater in Syracuse back in March, which was actually the first play that either of us had ever seen (outside of things like school field trips, or school plays). I spent the second act going nuts, because I recognized the guy who played Fiyero, and couldn't place it. On the drive home it hits me, it's Dr. Rhodes on Chicago Med! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Oh Lord a lot. I majored in theatre. But some highlights: Cabaret with NPH A Long Day's Journey Into Night with Brian Dennehy and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Oddly enough I've also seen local productions of both of those, the latter directed by a college friend) Kiss Me Kate 42nd Street Life X 3 (with John Turturro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 On some kind of professional stage: Phantom of the Opera (twice) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Evil Dead: The Musical (three times) Ross Petty's Snow White, pre-release because my wife is friends with a tech who worked on it. Macbeth A REALLY good college performance of the Rocky Horror Show. And some varied high school plays since I had a lot of theater kid friends and my (11 years younger) brother is one. Do Welcome to Night Vale live shows count? Because The Librarian and The Investigators if so. I feel like I'm missing stuff but I couldn't say what so eh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contentious C Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 I did some school trip years ago where I saw the usual suspects. That's unremarkable. But this seems like the sort of place to mention the Baltimore Rock Opera Society, which does some fairly absurd stuff like this: CHRONOSHRED: The Adventures of Stardust Lazerdong, Pilot Episode I saw everything they did from mid-2013 until late last year; I don't know how their most recent show, The Terrible Secret of Lunastus was. Their best show, though, was a set of 30-minute performances, split up over two weekends. Lots of genre-subverting and strangeness, but the real winner was "Rats!", taking one of those old & moldy Broadways and adapting a little bit of the material to the Local Baltimore Mascot (well, it's either the rat or the bullet). I don't think I stopped laughing the entire show. On a separate note, I saw something yesterday that mentioned Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was turned into a musical. Has anyone seen that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Angel Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 We haven't gone out to see many plays this year but we did go see Avenue Q over the summer. Which was way funnier with the fact that parents didn't check about the show before bringing children. Parent: "What is this filth?" Kid: "Can I put my finger there?" Parent: "NOOOOOOO!" Me: "You know this is rated R for a reason right?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red is Dead Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Harry Potter and the cursed child. A PROPER 8th story. It's damn good. A couple bits of hammy acting (ginny weasley) but some decent new characters and a damned good story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Normally I hate theater (mostly because I hate being in a suit for hours on end), but I accompanied my kid's Drama Class on a field trip to B'More to see Shen Yun two Saturdays ago and it was fucking unbelievable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 1 hour ago, J.T. said: Normally I hate theater (mostly because I hate being in a suit for hours on end), but I accompanied my kid's Drama Class on a field trip to B'More to see Shen Yun two Saturdays ago and it was fucking unbelievable! I hope you wear sunglasses and pretend you are Mr Hughes (or Killer Kyle). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 1 hour ago, odessasteps said: I hope you wear sunglasses and pretend you are Mr Hughes (or Killer Kyle). I cannot pass for Mr. Hughes because I do not have a badass hat like he did. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 With wife: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night One Man, Two Guvnors In The Heights Wicked Singin' in the Rain Othello Macbeth Merrily We Roll Along Phantom of the Opera (in NY) Otherwise: Inherit the Wind (with Kevin Spacey...) Les Miserables We Will Rock You (...awful) As school teacher: Hamlet Little Shop of Horrors Lord of the Flies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 On 2017-03-22 at 7:26 AM, Red is Dead said: The producers - twice. once in manchester with peter Kaye playing Roger De Bris which was awesome stuff. Shrek the musical Macbeth. Midsummer nights dream Waiting for godot with Stewart and McKellan. Have also got tickets to see the two harry potter plays on 23rd Feb next year in London. Hot damn, really? That must have been something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red is Dead Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Never having seen it - I was mystified. But fuck me sideways - it was Stewart and Mckellan. I would have sold my mother to get tickets. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red is Dead Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 You can now add Aladdin to the list. Got bought tickets for the born day from Wifey. Anything that didnt have genie in it.....meh. Jasmine and al were overpowered by the music. Genie did the memory of RW proud. I lost my shit at the end of friend like me when they did the dance routine .Proper old style hoofin' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 My wife and I saw Fun Home this weekend and it was goddamned great. The entire cast was tremendous, especially the girl playing Small Alison. Coincidentally the woman playing adult Alison was also Angelica in the Chicago production of Hamilton we saw last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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