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You think the cops can protect you if you don't post in this thread about your experiences with the stage? Motherfucker, you can only trust your fists (to share your favorite and least favorite shows), police will never help you. In this thread, share the plays and musicals (and hell, opera and kabuki and whatever the gently caress stage performances) you've seen in your life. If you're so inclined, say where you saw them. If you're a good dude or dudette, say which were the best and which were the worst. High school My Fair Lady College Red Herring Company King Stag The Playboy of the Western World Fuenteovejuna The Importance of Being Earnest The Trojan Women Medea A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Much Ado About Nothing The Taming of the Shrew Eurydice Purple Rose Theatre Company (Chelsea, Michigan) Redwood Curtain American Players Theatre (Spring Green, Wisconsin) An Ideal Husband Pericles, Prince of Tyre A Midsummer Night's Dream CIBC Theatre (Chicago) Hamilton Various theatres (Indianapolis) White City Murder Hamilton Lombardi Jesus Christ Superstar Dear Evan Hansen Walter Kerr Theatre (New York City) Hadestown Ritz Theatre (Camden, New Jersey) In The Heights Local community theatre The Hunchback of Notre Dame That's in roughly chronological order. The best were Fuenteovejuna, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamilton, and Hadestown. The worst were The Playboy of the Western World, Redwood Curtain, and Dear Evan Hansen. Now it's your turn. 
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My mom took my sister and I to see Cats on broadway when I was very young. I was feeling kind of sick that day so I fell asleep several times throughout the performance and it was very confusing. My mom remembers it as me "being miserable" and not sick. Why don't you believe that I was sick mom?
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Sep 4, 2022 15:28
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I haven't been too many, thanks for reminding me to see more op. I saw Cyrano de Bergerac a long time ago. I saw the Nutcracker last year, which was very nice. If you include opera, I've seen Parsifal and Akhenaten. Parsifal had amazing music but you can tell that Wagner was certifiably nuts Doctor J Off fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Sep 4, 2022 |
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Sep 4, 2022 16:40
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last one i saw was erasmus montanus. the lead got buck naked and a little person dragged him around by the dick. it was great
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Sep 4, 2022 16:44
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I’ve seen Blue Man Group and Stomp. Stomp wasn’t my cup of tea. And then The Nutcracker at the dinner theatre around Christmas. And The Complete Works of William Shakespeare(Abridged) at the Pirates Playhouse. So really not a hell of a lot. I’m uncultured.
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Sep 4, 2022 16:45
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I saw the last ever performance of Escape to Margaritavilla on Broadway, and at 36 I was by far the youngest person in the audience
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Sep 4, 2022 17:06
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Lucky Guy posted:I saw the last ever performance of Escape to Margaritavilla on Broadway, and at 36 I was by far the youngest person in the audience Saw the film version of Jersey Boys and the old broads were wondering why the hell we were there.
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Sep 4, 2022 17:10
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It’s a sad thing that I’m memory-holed on what plays I’ve seen live because I’ve seen quite a few. Off the top of my head (from what I can remember): West Side Story The King and I Cats Jesus Christ Superstar The Nutcracker My Fair Lady The Phantom of the Opera
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Sep 4, 2022 19:02
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I saw the original Broadway cast of Cats at the Winter Garden Theatre in late spring of 1987 while in NYC. 
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Sep 4, 2022 19:06
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Favorite I’ve seen was either Come From Away or Little Shop of Horrors. Worst was Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, bafflingly hard to follow with iffy actors, half the audience didn’t return from intermission.
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Sep 4, 2022 20:10
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I have seen so much live theatre that I can't remember all of them. I will say that my benchmark is Urinetown.
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Sep 4, 2022 20:47
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does the Blue Man Group count OP?
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Sep 4, 2022 21:49
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Edward Mass posted:Urinetown 
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Sep 4, 2022 21:50
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my high school did a production of seussical that loving ruled, the dude who played the cat in the hat as the mc was so good and carried the entire drat show on his back he's probably like, manager of a best buy now i also saw this production of as you like it but set in the 60s/70s, like everyone was in mod fashion, and I got so horny for the dude playing touchstone because he was dressed like david bowie, and as a 13 year old lesbian I didn't understand how to process it.
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Sep 4, 2022 21:56
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First part of synopsis: Officer Lockstock, a policeman, grimly welcomes the audience, assisted by the street urchin Little Sally. According to the pair, a twenty-year drought has caused a terrible water shortage, making private toilets unthinkable. All restroom activities are done in public toilets controlled by a megacorporation[11] called "Urine Good Company" (or UGC). To control water consumption, people have to pay to use the amenities ("Too Much Exposition"). There are harsh laws ensuring that people pay to urinate, and if the laws are broken, the offender is sent to a place called "Urinetown," never to return. My favorite song from it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgH0fOcp3T8 it's real good OP. Ends just as you'd want too. (Well, as anyone on SA would want, presumably)
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Sep 4, 2022 22:06
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I. M. Gei posted:does the Blue Man Group count OP? Yeah sure who gives a gently caress (I saw Blue Man Group in Chicago like six or seven years ago and it was absolutely horrible; I later learned that the woman who signed our work team up to attend had a hobby of writing erotic fanfiction for James Cameron's "Avatar") big dyke energy posted:my high school did a production of seussical that loving ruled, the dude who played the cat in the hat as the mc was so good and carried the entire drat show on his back My Fair Lady at my high school was the first play I ever saw, and I thought the guy who sang On the Street Where You Live loving crushed it. I'm sure if I heard a recording of it now I'd think it was awful, but to my ears in that moment he was the greatest singer on the goddamn planet. I went back twice just to hear it again. Super happy memory.
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Sep 4, 2022 22:12
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My wife is really into live theater and we used to have season tickets to two theater groups every year. I’ve seen so much live theater and most of it went in one ear and out the other
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Sep 4, 2022 22:18
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I've never heard of stoncold ste. vaustin, sorry op
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Sep 4, 2022 22:21
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SyNack Sassimov posted:it's real good OP. Ends just as you'd want too. (Well, as anyone on SA would want, presumably) they find the piss tape??
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Sep 4, 2022 22:32
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The Ferryman in the west end. Jez Butterworth. Pretty good, entertaining had a big cast and yer one from Derry Girls was in it. The Lieutenant of Inishmore The Cripple of Inishmaan A Skull in Connemara Saw them in the west end or Dublin. All Martin McDonagh plays, he has a bunch more and with a bit of luck I'll get to them some day. In Bruges, The Guard, Seven Psychopaths, Calvary and Three Billboards are all great movies and the plays are all black comedies like them. If you like his movies you'll like the plays. Saw The Book of Mormon on Broadway, very very funny, myself and the wife still mess around singing some of the tunes years later. Best part was I went up to buy a glass of wine before it started and it turns out they sold them in big half liter plastic cups with straws. We had another one at the interval, staggered out of the place.
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Sep 4, 2022 22:37
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I've seen Jesus Christ Superstar. That is all. I almost saw it again later in school, maybe grade 11, but i faked being sick so I could go home instead, because my buddy was "sick" that day and I didn't much feel like walking around that city basically by myself.
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Sep 4, 2022 22:45
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Buce posted:I've never heard of stoncold ste. vaustin, sorry op You think you're funny? 
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Sep 5, 2022 02:41
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Not a fan of “in and of itself”
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Sep 5, 2022 02:52
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I saw an off-off-broadway version of Madea starring my sister and inspired by 1920's German expressionism, and many years earlier I saw a touring production of Les Mis. Not a huge theater guy. Strikes me as kind of obsolete given that motion pictures exist.
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Sep 5, 2022 03:01
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I've seen Phantom of the Opera several times, and recently saw Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Sep 5, 2022 03:18
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When I was in high school I went on a class trip to London and saw the musical Blood Brothers. It was my first "grown-up" play to go see. I don't remember much about it, except at intermission I bought an oversized box of Smarties and ate them for the rest of the production. I still love Smarties and buy them every chance I get. The second most recent play I saw was in 2016 in Seattle. The play was Stupid loving Bird, which is an adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull. I found it completely absorbing and loved every minute. The theater was in the round and we had great seats which really made it memorable, and the cast was wonderful. You could tell they were putting their hearts into it. The most recent play I saw was Dear Evan Hansen and I wanted to die the entire time, except for during the song "You Will Be Found" which I really liked.
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Sep 5, 2022 03:55
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I saw Wicked in Japanese in Tokyo. I think that's it.
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Sep 5, 2022 03:59
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Incremus posted:The most recent play I saw was Dear Evan Hansen and I wanted to die the entire time, except for during the song "You Will Be Found" which I really liked. I saw it via Broadway on Tour earlier this year and it's just a goddamn horrible play. I didn't even really like that song; the only one that stuck in my head at all was "Waving Through a Window" and even that only stuck around for a couple days despite me being a total mark for musicals. Shout-out to the baseball glove song for making my friend choke on her popcorn from laughing, though.
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Sep 5, 2022 16:58
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I couldn't tell you what random school/community theater plays I've seen but they were generally good goofy fun. Well, I guess I know I've seen A Christmas Carol but I couldn't name any random farces etc. I've also seen Fiddler on the Roof (good), Book of Mormon (dumb but good) and Wicked (bad but with a good showstopper in the middle)
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Sep 5, 2022 17:44
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the holy poopacy posted:they find the piss tape?? No. At the end of Urinetown, the people rise up and overthrow the Urine Good Company. Officer Lockstock then explains to the audience that the UGC were actually right, and the town ran out of water very soon thereafter. It’s insinuated that the main character’s love interest is killed by an angry mob because everyone began dying of dehydration!
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Of operas: The Flying Dutchman Niobe Acis and Galatea La Traviata Tosca Rodelinda La bohème The Magic Flute The Marriage of Figaro Madama Butterfly Dido and Aeneas La descente d'Orphée aux enfers Rigoletto Aida Hansel and Gretel Don Giovanni Porgy and Bess Giulio Cesare Something composed here in town and performed by amateurs. It was terrible but a fine first effort. Don't remember the title. I've certainly missed a bunch, but that's most of them. Of operettas: Die Fledermaus Of musicals: The Phantom of the Opera Evita Of plays: Hamlet Macbeth Where, for the operas and operetta, is mostly split between the Merrill in Portland (Maine), Jordon Hall in Boston, and the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington. Plays were local productions. Phantom was at Her Majesty's in London, Evita was local-ish. Favorite is a toss-up between Dido and Aeneas and Niobe. Niobe lives or dies on the proficiency of its cast and the show BEMF put on was simply divine. Dido and Aeneas is harder to screw up and it's super short -- most Baroque opera is around four or five hours long and Dido rarely breaks one hour -- so it's probably a better choice for the novice. And it's in English so you don't have the read the supertitles. Worst (not including the amateur one because that wouldn't be fair) was probably Magic Flute. That demands grand theatrics and we were not given grand theatrics at the Merrill. Nor was the coloratura soprano skilled enough to pull off the Der Hölle Rache aria at the speed it should be sung. Her tessitura wasn't high enough and she struggled with the whole thing, missing the F6 altogether. Nobody booed, but it's the only time I can recall at the Merrill when nobody applauded after a big aria.
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Sep 9, 2022 01:14
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i saw a performance of rocky horror picture show a few years and i hated every single second of it. ive seen musical plays before, little shop of horrors and maybe another one and they arnt my favorite thing but i thought little shop of horrors was goog. rocky horror picture show SUCKS. its intolerable, i couldnt decide if i was more annoyed by the stage actors or the audience, and i know its supposed to be an audience experience but i wanted to and should have just left. i got so pissed off by the end of it and i was in such a bad mood lol. numberoneposter fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Sep 9, 2022 |
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Sep 9, 2022 01:36
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The best musical I ever saw was Broadway's Les Mis , but I've been to a lot of different shows so I can't remember all of them
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Sep 9, 2022 01:44
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Monster Soup Shadow Box The Murder at the Vicarage Death of a Salesman A couple of really lovely, cheesy melodramas at an old people club Rocky Horror Picture Show Chess Sweeney Todd Scream Queens Scapino A Chorus Line A Streetcar Named Desire Romeo and Juliet A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Diary of Anne Frank Taming of the Shrew Cabaret Fiddler on the Roof La Cage aux Folles Little Shop of Horrors The jewel in the crown was Evita at what was then the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles- didn’t see Patti LuPone, but her understudy was great, and Mandy Patinkin was loving fabulous.
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Sep 11, 2022 22:32
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Lombardi Book of Mormon Carmen Die Fledermaus
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Sep 12, 2022 19:09
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A bunch of stuff at Seattle Children's Theatre during elementary school. I mostly remember A Wrinkle in Time with a bunch of synchronized ball bouncing High school: Fiddler on the Roof drat Yankees Into the Woods (non-flanderized version) Fiddler was best Schools also had a thing with the Seattle Opera for cheap/free tickets to dress rehearsals, so a bunch of random operas College did Rocky every year. It was mostly good for being an event, the musical itself is fundamentally kinda crap. One history professor's taught a seminar on Shakespeare every year and they ended every year with a production of one of the plays. Those were less well executed, since it was history students, not theatre.
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Sep 12, 2022 19:42
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The only musical I've ever seen live was Rent, and (unpopular opinion alert) I found the play dreadful and the songs even worse.Incremus posted:The most recent play I saw was Dear Evan Hansen and I wanted to die the entire time, except for during the song "You Will Be Found" which I really liked. Without Dear Evan Hansen the play there would be no Dear Evan Hansen the movie, and without Dear Evan Hansen the movie there would be no uproariously scathing review of the movie by Jenny Nicholson. Worth it, imho, but then again I've never actually seen the play/movie itself.
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Sep 12, 2022 20:26
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Mrs. Doubtfire, it was pretty good. I was surprised the lead could do so much dancing and running around under heavy Karl Havoc make up.
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Sep 12, 2022 21:14
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YeahTubaMike posted:The only musical I've ever seen live was Rent, and (unpopular opinion alert) I found the play dreadful and the songs even worse.
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in high school the only one i remember was les miserables, since it was such a production and i played in the orchestra. ive seen off-broadway beauty and the beast, the lion king, cabaret, and hadestown. hadestown being the most recent and was so glad i went. we did get persephone's understudy at my show and god she nailed it. i kinda liked her more than the original lady. i even liked the guy who played hades almost a little more than the original guy. would still highly suggest it though!
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