Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Theatrical Nostalgia

I started thinking about my lifelong love of theatre and pulled out the box with all the Playbills and programs from every show I've ever seen. There may be a few more that I didn't manage to save the programs for, but these go WAY back. Yul Brynner in "The King and I" was my first. I vividly remember (at least parts) of each and everyone of these. Indulge me please:

Broadway
Doubt
Fosse
Follies
Cabaret
Avenue Q
Aida (2x)
Noises Off
RENT (2x)
42nd Street
Wicked (2x)
Jersey Boys
Chicago (2x)
A Chorus Line
The Lion King
The Music Man
The Full Monty
The Boy from Oz
Three Days of Rain
La Cage aux Folles
Man of La Mancha
Fiddler on the Roof
Beauty and the Beast
The Woman in White
Little Shop of Horrors
Urinetown: The Musical
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Monty Python's Spamalot
Thoroughly Modern Millie
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife
Frankie and Johnny at the Clair de Lune
Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends
Off Broadway/Off Off Broadway
Forbidden Broadway: Summer Shock
Naked Boys Singing (4x)
tick, tick... BOOM! (2x)
Little Shop of Horrors
The God Committee
The Fantasticks
Altar Boyz (4x)
Sally and Tom
Zanna Don't
Circle
Trolls
London West End
Sunset Blvd.
National Tours
Cats
Evita
Falsettos
RENT (2x)
Dreamgirls
The King and I
Angels in America
Les Miserables (x3)
Phantom of the Opera
Little Shop of Horrors
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Community/Regional
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Merrily We Roll Along
La Cage aux Folles
Trafford Tanzi
Sweeny Todd
The Nerd
Snoopy
Mail
Grease
The Wiz
Cabaret
Hello Dolly
Brigadoon
42nd Street
The Mikado
My Fair Lady
A Chorus Line
Guys and Dolls
The Music Man
West Side Story
Sound of Music
My One and Only
Hans Christian Andersen
Once Upon a Mattress (2x)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Snow White in the BlackForrest
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Young Dracula: The Singing Bat
Seeing DoubleBook of James
And the World Goes Round
Fifty Million Frenchmen
A Christmas Carol
Torch Song Trilogy
The Wizard of Oz
Steel Magnolias
The Foreigner
Godspell (2x)
Good News
Mackerel
Anything Goes
Finian's Rainbow
The Gay Deceivers
Give Our Regards to Broadway
Return to the Forbidden Planet
Broadway: From Cohan to Cats
Dicken's A Christmas Carol
10 Percent in Maple Grove
The Rocky Horror Show
7 Brides for 7 Brothers
A Chorus Line (2x)
The Pajama Game
Oklahoma (2x)
South Pacific
Stay Carl Stay
Snoopy
Annie
Nunsense
Oliver (2x)
Baker Street
The Crucible
The Miracle Worker
Bubbling Brown Sugar
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (2x)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

1 comment:

adrienne said...

Holy crap, that's a lot of theater!! Yowza!!

Last year, I saw one play ("The Exonerated"). Alas!