I decided to make a list of every Broadway show I've ever seen.
And the list kept growing and growing and growing. So far I've got 278.
Mind you, I've seen some of these shows two or three times.I've put an asterisk (*) next to some of my very favorites. I've put a pound (#) next to some of the shows I've seen more than once. And the tilde (~) represents shows that flopped.
How many hours in the theater does this amount to? Probably more than 700! Going over these shows brought back so many memories of time spent cocooned in Broadway theaters.
Of course, some shows I barely remember while others stand out so vividly in my mind I feel like that are part of me. And all the moments that come to mind. For example, one weekend we saw three musicals, each 20 years apart: Barnam from the 1980s, Camelot from the 1960s and Oklahoma! from the 1940s -- all one word titles, too. What a weekend that was!
The real standouts include the magnificent Hal Prince production of Show Boat; Sondheim's original Sweeney Todd, Sunday In The Park With George and Pacific Overtures; Tommy Tune's Will Rogers Follies and Nine; Jerry Herman's Hello Dolly!, Mame and La Cage; Lloyd Webber's Phantom and Sunset Boulevard, and so many, many stars: Carol Channing, Lena Horne, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Ethel Merman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mandy Patinkin, Raul Julia, Nathan Lane, Gregory Hines, Jerry Orbach, Robert Preston, Matthew Broderick and on and on!
This is still an incomplete list, but here it is up to this point:
Shuffle Along*
This is still an incomplete list, but here it is up to this point:
110 In The Shade
1776
42nd Street*
A Bronx Tale
A Bronx Tale
A Chorus Line
A Day In Hollywood/A Night In The Ukraine
A Funny Thing . . . #
A Gentlemen’s Guide To . . .
Ain't Too Proud
A Joyful Noise
A Little Night Music
All American~
All American~
Always, Patsy Cline
A Matter of Gravity
Amelie
Anastasia
Amelie
Anastasia
A Party With . . .
A View From the Bridge#
After Midnight*
After the Fall
Ain’t Misbehavin’*
An American in Paris*
Annie
Annie Get Your Gun#
Any Wednesday
Any Wednesday
Anything Goes
Applause
Assassins
Baby~
Back To The Future
Barnum*
Beautiful
Beauty and the Beast
Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice
Big
Big Fish
Big River
Blithe Spirit*#
Bonnie & Clyde~
Brigadoon
Brigadoon
Bubbling Brown Sugar
Bullets Over Broadway
Butterflies Are Free
Butterflies Are Free
Bye, Bye Birdie#
Cabaret*
Camelot#
Can-Can
Candide
Carousel*#
Catch Me If You Can
Chapter Two
Chess*
Chicago*#
Chinglish~
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Cinderella
City of Angels
Clothes for a Summer Hotel~
Coco
Coco
Company*#
Crazy for You
Curtains
Damn Yankees
Defending The Caveman
Design For Living#
Elaine Stritch At Liberty*
End Of Te Rainbow
End Of Te Rainbow
Equus
Eubie!
Evita
Fiddler on the Roof
Finding Neverland
Finian’s Rainbow*
Fiorello#
Fiorello#
Five Guys Named Moe
Follies*#
Footloose
Forty Carats
Forty Carats
Foxy
Funny Girl
Gigi
Girl From The North Country
Godspell
Golden Boy
Golden Rainbow~
Grand Hotel#
Grand Hotel#
Grease
Grey Gardens
Grind~
Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day
Guys and Dolls#
Gypsy*
Hadestown
Hair
Hairspray
Hamilton
Happy Birthday, Gemini~
Harmony
Hay Fever
Hello, Dolly!*#
Henry Sweet henry
Here's Love~
Here's Love~
Here We Are
High Fidelity~
High Society
Honeymoon in Vegas~
How To Succeed In Business . . .#
I Do, I Do
I Do, I Do
I Love My Wife
I Married An Angel
I Married An Angel
I Remember Mama~
Into The Woods
Irene~
It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman
It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman
It Shoulda Been You~
It’s Only a Play
I’m Not Rappaport
Jackie Mason on Broadway
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well
Jekyll & Hyde
Jelly's Last Jam
Jersey Boys#
Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Kelly~
Kinky Boots
Kiss Me, Kate#
Kiss of the Spider Woman
La Cage aux Folles
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Legally Blonde
Lena Horne – The Lady and Her Music#
Lend Me A Tenor
Les Miserables
Light Up The Sky
Little Me*#
Little Shop of Horrors#
Lorelei~
Love Never Dies~
Love Never Dies~
Luther
M. Butterfly
Mack & Mabel
Mack & Mabel
Mame*#
Man of La Mancha
Mandy Patinkin in Concert
Marat/Sade
Marat/Sade
Mary Poppins
Mass Appeal
Matilda
Me and My Girl*#
Memphis
Metro~
Million Dollar Quartet
Miss Moffat~
Mr. Saturday Night
Moon Over Buffalo
Mornings At Seven
Motown
Moulin Rouge
Mr. Saturday Night
Mrs. Doubtfire
Mummenschanz
My Fair Lady#
My One and Only*
Newsies
Network
Network
Nice Work If You Can Get It*
Nine*
No, No, Nanette*
Noises Off
Oh Coward!
Oh! What A Lovely War
Oh! What A Lovely War
Oklahoma!*#
Oliver!*
Once On This Island
Once On This Island
On Your Toes
On the Town
On the Twentieth Century
Over Here!
Pacific Overtures*#
Paint Your Wagon
Pal Joey
Paradise Alley~
Passion
Penn & Teller
Peter Pan*
Pippin
Play It Again, Sam
Present Laughter
Pretty Woman
Prince of Broadway
Play It Again, Sam
Present Laughter
Pretty Woman
Prince of Broadway
Private Lives#
Promises, Promises
Pump Boys and Dinettes
Putting It Together
Purlie Victorious
Pygmalion
Ragtime*
Rocky
Romulus~
Romulus~
Same Time, Next Year
Saturday Night Fever
Seesaw
She Loves Me
She Loves Me
Shenandoah
Show Boat*#
Shuffle Along*
Side Show
Side by Side by Sondheim*
Singin’ In The Rain#
Sly Fox
Smokey Joe’s Cafe
Social Security~
Some Like It Hot
Something Rotten!
Sophisticated Ladies*
South Pacific*
Spamalot
SpongeBob Square Pants
SpongeBob Square Pants
Starlight Express
Steel Pier~
Sugar~
Sugar Babies*#
Sunday in the Park with George*
Sunset Boulevard*
Sweeney Todd*
Teddy & Alice~
The Addams Family
The Band Wagon
The Band's Visit
The Band Wagon
The Band's Visit
The Belle of Amherst
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
The Boy From Oz
The Bridges of Madison County~
The Drowsy Chaperone*
The Flying Karamazov Brothers
The Front Page
The Front Page
The Full Monty
The Glass Menagerie
The Goodbye Girl
The Happy Time
The Happy Time
The Illusionists
The King and I*#
The Life~
The Light in the Piazza
The Magic Show
The Most Happy Fella
The Music Man*#
The New Yorkers
The New Yorkers
The Phantom of the Opera
The Play That Goes Wrong
The Producers
The Red Shoes~
The Ritz
Road Show
Road Show
The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life . . .
The Sound of Music
The Wedding Singer
The Will Rogers Follies*
The Wiz
They’re Playing Our Song
This Was Burlesque*
Thoroughly Modern Millie*
Titanic*
Tommy Tune Tonite!
Tootsie*
Tootsie*
Vanya and Sonia And Masha and Spike*
Victor Victoria*
Vieux Carré~
Waitress
War Paint
Waitress
War Paint
We Take The Town
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?*#
Wicked
Wonderful Town
You Can’t Take It With You
Young Frankenstein
Zorba#
Legend:
* personal fave
# seen more than once
~ flop
Legend:
* personal fave
# seen more than once
~ flop
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