Your Favorite Plays and Stage Productions?

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I was just looking at clips of "Hamilton". I haven't seen a play since " Annie Get Your Gun" with Bernadette Peters.
It's too bad Broadway went so danged expensive. We live a short train ride away. When I was a kid my parents went in to see a show regularly. I used to have volumes of playbills. Should have kept them, especially the signed ones. I mean I was in grade school so a lot of them went over my head, but it was memorable.

Then there was a place called Downey's Steak House. Long closed but they had prime rib and Yorkshire pudding. I just remember the lights and the crowds. Wasn't that a time. Broadway before Disney bought it. There was a definite culture clash. You had the big old beautiful theaters, then blocks away Show World and the hookers. The people dressed for a snazzy evening out and the street people all pushed together.

I wish I could take my daughter to "Hamilton". Sadly it's sold out into the next decade and tickets start at, well one discount site...a discount site has tickets starting at $252, yes that is one ticket. I tip my hat to people who can swing that plus transportation, plus dinner. You have to sell both kidneys for an evening in the city. I miss the old days.
 

I have seen several stage musicals but my favorite was when Yul Brenner played the lead in "The King and I" at the bowl in San Diego.
 
Wicked... Phantom of the Opera...... Les Miserables.......Those are the top of my list. Huge production numbers and I've seen each one two or three times.
 

I go back a ways to Broadway, when primo tickets were around $45. :eek:

Opening night of CATS in 1982 - fantastic. The Magic Show with Doug Henning. Amadeus. Mornings at Seven. Many others; Off-Broadway as well.
 
I've seen Phantom and Little Shop of Horrors on Broadway... All the others off broadway. Chicago has a very active theater scene with 3 theaters providing large production plays.. The Cadillac Theater, the Chicago Theater, and the Auditorium Theater.
 
Les Mis, Wicked, JC Superstar, Sound of Music, Mamma Mia, Rocky Horror a few Gilbert and Sullivans, Lion King. I've seen many plays and I think going to the theatre is my favourite outing.
 
The two that popped into my head first were Pippin and Camelot. I've seen others since, but those for some reason stand out in my head. I used to love going to the theater till it got so expensive. I've yet to see The Lion King one I had planned to see two years ago but missed out due to change of plans; now it's more distance as there are some smaller productions I would love to see, but, just far to travel to. I'm going to make an effort to see at least two in the coming year, putting it on my list of must does by end of 2016.
 
There was one and the name escapes me. A big Italian family and one of the punch line's was "Are you eating that?"...Danny Aiello I believe. Let me look it up..."Gemini", that was it! Got me ready for second husband's family years later.

Something quaint- waiting by the stage door for autographs. Now I imagine they must have Homeland Security. One I remember was Tim Curry signing my Playbill. I was too young to know about Rocky Horror yet. But I know quite clearly I was perhaps 14 and I towered over him...he was so sweet in person though.
 
I wasn't a fan of the actual play or when I saw Phantom on TV when I was a kid, but, I've always love the music and very much enjoyed the 2004 movie version of which I went to see and then purchased a copy of the movie and the soundtrack, though I do still love the songs Crawford version of Music of the Night. I also owned the CATS soundtrack among many others.

couple of my favorite scenes from the movie, not sure I could have sat through the play, not found of the fighter over Christine theme in the movie, but the sounds and visual production just splendid.


 
Not very keen on musicals, but love seeing plays.Used to live in London and went out quite a bit to see things.One poster mentioned Michael Frayn's 'noises off' which is hilarious, also enjoyed 'an Inspector calls' by JB Priestly, a period piece but still thought provoking.I also loved 'all my sons' 'the view from the bridge' 'death of a salesman'.
 
Something I miss is the off Broadway shows. They still have them but not as edgy perhaps...I remember Dame Edna, also John Leguizamo in "Mambo Mouth". My son was almost an adult and enjoyed them as much as I did. Another memorable one that played a long time "Gemini" with Danny Aiello. Don't know who else remembers the catch phrase "Are you eating that?". There was a dinner scene with a character nomming off everyone's plate.
 

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