Stage shows you've been to.

[Nr1Humanoid]

If it happened on stage, talk about it here.

I just came from Vegas where I caught a showing of Ka by Cirque Du Soleil and Le Reve the Dream at the Wynn. Sadly O did not have a performance until the day I left.

Whatever these performers gets paid couldn't possibly be enough. My jaw dropped, my tears nearly fell, my neck hurts afterwards and the high prices were beyond worth it. Especially the aftermath of a sinking ship was pure poetry in motion. I wanna go back now. Listening to the soundtracks as I write this.

Even Diceman was in town, the man has not changed. Thankfully.

[Spider2024]

Blue Man Group. That's it.

[Nr1Humanoid]

Aug 18, 2017 7:06:45 GMT -5 Spider2024 said:

Blue Man Group. That's it.

I forgot, I went there too. Funny stuff.

[Duke Cameron]

Cats
Chicago
Crazy For You
Les Miserables

All on Broadway.

Concerts:
Hinder
Slipknot
Buckcherry
Flyleaf
Papa Roach
Cherry Bomb
Breaking Benjamin
Three Days Grace

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Lindsey Stirling (AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME)
Weird Al, twice. He is a national treasure.
Blue Man Group, both on tour and at their theater in Chicago. The touring show was awesome.
Addams Family: The Musical
The Lion King (like two years ago, finally)
Beauty and the Beast
College production of Rocky Horror
College production of Hamlet, featuring Dustin Hoffman's stand in from "Stranger Than Fiction" as Hamlet (seemingly random, but actually also an accomplished Shakespearean actor)
A Night with John Cleese (basically just an on stage interview to promote his book)
A Night with Neil Degrasse Tyson (basically a lecture, in the best way)
The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses
Sound of Music at the Lyric Opera in Chicago featuring Billy Zane (why? I don't know.)
Nutcracker (f*** that play)
White Christmas

[Kevin Hamilton]

Seen various local productions of such.

Saw Nunsense II in Ford's Theater. That was pretty neat.


Rocky Horror at the Orpheum in Memphis last year might as well have been a live show.

[WoodStoner1]

I assume this doesn't count concerts/music or plays?

Saw a lot in Vegas...Blue Man and Elvis Cirque. I also liked Jubilee (showgirl revue at Bally's), La Cage/Divas (drag show starring Frank Marino and female impersonators impersonating female singers), and Pin Up (with Claire Sinclair, kind of a tribute to Bettie Page and the like).

Been to The Price is Right stage show when it was there, then in Jersey.

In NY, went to one of Dame Edna's shows.

[SmashTV]

Chicago - seats two rows back, a visible live band and I caught a rose that the cast threw into the stage at the end of the show. Mr Cellophane? Not me!

[Nr1Humanoid]

Aug 18, 2017 9:16:46 GMT -5 WoodStoner1 said:

I assume this doesn't count concerts/music or plays?

If it was performed live, indoors and on a stage, go for it.

[FinalGwen]

I've seen:

- The Rocky Horror Show (3 times)
- Shock Treatment
- Spamalot
- Oliver!
- Bat Out Of Hell (9 times)

[Push R Truth]

Cats and Les Mis in Chicago, amazing!


Weird Al was the best concert I've ever seen and it's not even close.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Aug 18, 2017 10:48:01 GMT -5 FinalGwen said:

I've seen:

- The Rocky Horror Show (3 times)
- Shock Treatment
- Spamalot
- Oliver!
- Bat Out Of Hell (9 times)

Oh! I forgot that I saw Spamalot!

It was a pretty much zero budget production in a theater that couldn't have fit more than 100 people. The perfect way to see it, really.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Aug 18, 2017 10:51:56 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

Cats and Les Mis in Chicago, amazing!


Weird Al was the best concert I've ever seen and it's not even close.

The first one I went to they still interspersed UHF clips throughout. (Bad Hair Day tour) They dropped that for the later one I went to, I think due to some rights issues. (The Running With Scissors tour)

[edgestar]

Wicked at the Oakdale theater, last December
Chicago on a Royal Caribbean ship

Concerts:

Britney Spears at the Hartford Civic Center (now it's the XL Center)
Beach Boys, Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons, and Trans Siberian Orchestra at Mohegan Sun arena

[StuntGranny®]

A couple of years ago I checked out Book of Mormon at the Fox in Atlanta. Laughed my ass off throughout.

Last Christmas I went with my wife's family to see A Christmas Story also at the Fox. I like the movie, but the stage show was awful. It was pretty racist/uncomfortable as well. There's a scene where Ralphie is daydreaming about the BB gun and there's a lot of Native American stereotypes running around. It also felt like they stretched out/milked the hell of that that, "LISTEN TO THE FUNNY CHINESE DUDES SING IN THEIR FUNNY ACCENTS LOL" scene for all it was worth. There was also a "gong" every time one of the Chinese workers came onto stage. Just weird and uncomfortable.

[ERON]

I saw the stage version of Young Frankenstein once. That was a lot of fun. There was a lady behind me who thought it was actually Gene Wilder up on stage.

A local ballet company in my area did a production of Dracula every October for about 3 or 4 years. That was a Halloween tradition for me as long as it lasted.

[bibboid]

Wicked
Avenue Q
Phantom of the Opera
Cats
Brigadoon
John Pinette (at the Sahara in Vegas)

And several Cirque du Soleil shows:
Corteo
O
Mystere
Totem
One other that was so inferior to all the others that I can't even remember the name of it.

[Deleted]

Saw Amy Grant & Michael W. Smith twice. Both flip-flop who opens the show, because they're getting their time in, regardless. It's an hour of one, then a couple of transition songs with both (MWS is a former keyboardist/lyricist from Amy's early years, so he gets extra work), the other goes an hour, intermission, then they perform together another 50-60 minutes.

Doesn't even seem like a concert, more like you're guests in their home just visiting. They just happen to play music between stories.

(The second time we seen them, we only stayed for Amy. The wife was suffering from symptoms of heat exhaustion waiting in line to get in. Got checked by an EMT, signed a waiver to refuse medical help after checking her vitals, we get inside so she can cool off. Random people we saw standing in line around us seen where we were sitting, they checked on her and was glad she was doing okay. The Mrs. isn't crazy about Amy's earlier works, but she knows "Baby Baby" and "Every Heartbeat" and that got her feeling better, which helped me relax and enjoy the show more.)

[Jiren]

Broadway
- Lion King
- Phantom Of The Opera

West End
- Jersey Boys
- The Beautiful Game