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[DarienA]

I'm not talking local high school products I'm talking big budget stuff... for me it's(all of them in NYC, there may be more, these are the ones I remember)...

Romeo and Juliet
Othello
Fences with James Earl Jones - Great Drama
Pirates of Penzance - Awesome Musical
Death of a Salesman - Pretty cool
Starlight Express - The original version...kickf'nASS!
Lion King - If you love musical plays and haven't seen this you are so in the wrong....




EDIT: thanks norin... oh crap how I Could I forget the Shakespeare stuff? I'm talking plays though... not movies... that reminds me...

 

[norinrad21]

I think :lol

 

[galeninjapan]

I saw cats!.

 

[DarienA]

I saw cats!.

You know I've never seen Cats even though I was told several times I should see it... what did you think of it?

 

[galeninjapan]

It was pretty damn good and I saw it when I was like 14. It doesnt have a story, rather its just a collection of tales about cats. Listen to some of the music, its really good.

 

[Nerevar]

Tommy (my fave, btw, but falls apart late in the movie)
Les Mis
Nutcracker (although it's really more ballet)
Merchant of Venice
Mama Mia

don't know, I've forgotten all the rest. Most of the others were pretty mediocre.

 

[Manics]

Phantom of the Opera
Les Miserables
Joseph and his Amazing Technicoloured Dreamcoat
Mambo Italiano
Merchant of Venice
Midsummer Night's Dream
Macbeth
Blood Relations
Mama Mia
Death of a Salesman


There's others that I'm forgetting right now...

 

[sprsk]

hairspray
nutcracker
metamorphoses
the odd couple
some kabuki, the name escapes me

 

[KingGondo]

Othello
Richard III
The Twelfth Night

I guess that's it...maybe it's because I live in Oklahoma! I saw all three of these in England.

 

[Iceman]

Musicals count?

Then only one: Les Miserables (San Diego)

I've seen several college productions but only one professional show.

 

[Prospero]

Some notable plays I've seen in the past few years--

David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross with Charles Durning
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard with Avery Brooks
A crap staging of Romeo and Juliet with a Juliet that was almost the right age (she's supposed to be something like 14, but it's hard for someone that young to deliver all those lines and then give a convincing impression of committing suicide). People started walking out halfway through, but I stuck around for the whole thing.
Eric Bogosian's Humpty Dumpty
Chekhov's Uncle Vanya with Amanda Plummer

 

[iapetus]

I have no idea. Too many to count, and I really ought to start going again. I went to the theatre in Chester regularly, and also when I lived in Russia. Russia was the best - for £10 you could get good seats with chocolate, ice cream and champagne in the interval - for five people.

 

[DarienA]

I knew I was gonna end up being the only person who saw Starlight Express here... geez people wtf... it was an awesome musical... on SKATES!!! Moving stages, racing, etc.... WTF?!?!?!? Too bad it's no longer in the US. I'd kill for a copy of the original on a bootleg VHS even....

 

[beerbelly]

The only play I can remember is Charlotte's Web. There was a another play I attended based on a popular 1950's movie, can't remember the name.

I remember watching Charlotte's Web and crying in the end. And I was in grade one. I have no clue why our teachers had to expose such depressing materials to youngsters. We watched Bambi and Dumbo in kindergarten and all I remember was that the main characters lose their mothers

 

[AirBrian]

Beauty and the Beast
Cats
Jesus Christ Superstar
Les Miserables
Macbeth
Midsummer Night's Dream
Phantom of the Opera (x2)

I've also seen a couple Cirque Du Soleil's. Does that count?

 

[Lucky Forward]

I saw The King and I....starring Yul Brynner not long before he passed away.

 

[ArcadeStickMonk]

Starlight Express!!

King Lear
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Mid-summernight's Dream

Glass Menagerie
Inherit the Wind
Christmas Carol (about fifty damn times)

Probably a lot more, I was an English major.


I also was in High School versions of MASH (played the asshole) and Inherit the Wind (played the reporter asshole).

I also authored a play which was performed while in college. (Diner... of Death!)

 

[Dan]

Starlight Express
The Producers (twice, with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane)
Grease (with Lucy Lawless)
A Christmas Carol (various renditions)
To Kill A Mockingbird

I've seen a few others that I unfortunately cannot name, probably because I didn't really care for them.

There have been a lot of Broadway and off-Broadway plays I've really wanted to see in NYC in recent years, but just didn't get the chance for various reasons. I wish I could see more plays.

 

[Justin Bailey]

Big budget? Hmmmmm, well I just saw The Producers on Broadway not to long ago - that was awesome.

 

[milanbaros]

Starlight Express
Mama Mia
Grease
Mouse Trap

On the West End (there are more but I have a bad memory)

and the one set in vietnam on Broadway.

So they are pretty corny and obvious choices but I enjoyed each and every one of them.

 

[DopeyFish]

go go go joseph you know what they say

....


and beauty and the beast

 

[BojTrek]

I have been to tons of Bulls games living in Chicago... and I have probably watched hundreds more on TV...

So I would have to say, I have seen this play the most...

 

[N Coward Parody]

More than this entire board combined...


*Noel Coward Parody

 

[Matlock]

Saw Phantom of the Opera in its last run in Toronto (can't for the life of me figure out what the name of the place was, tho).

 

[Comfort_Eagle]

Les Miserables. For some reason thats the only one.

 

[demon]

Kind of a bunch. A few Shakespeare's, Death of a Salesman.....I'm not going to try to remember them all. A few weeks ago I saw a musical version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on broadway, starring John Lithgow. It was pretty good.

 

[dtrip]

I've seen Rent 3 times

 

[bishoptl]

Othello
Death of a Salesman
Macbeth (about 100000 times)
Midsummer's Night's Dream
Humble Boy (a month ago)

...and tonight I'm going to see "TRYING” starring the lovely Thea Gill from TV’s Queer as Folk.

 

[bjork]

Many, but in movie form... so that doesn't count.

 

[kumanoki]

Guys and Dolls
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Runner Stumbles
Phantom of the Opera (Off-Broadway)
Rent
A Christmas Carol
Bring in Da Noize, Bring in Da Funk
Cabaret (Studio 54)
Oklahoma!
Fiddler on the Roof
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
The Foreigner
Annie
Damn Yankees (with Jerry Lewis)

In Japan:
Narukami (kabuki)
Noh
Bunraku (dolls)

The State Theater of Georgia is two blocks from my wife's parents' house. I'm sure there are a whole lot of performances that I've seen that I can't quite remember....

 

[jiggle]

Miss Saigon
Rent

 

[Drozmight]

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