u/savestheday91

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41 Theatres = Complete!

103 productions, 121 performances, 30 years. From my first Broadway show at age 11 (Les Miserables) to yesterday at the matinee for The Balusters, I have completed the set. I went on a ton of bus trips during my teenage years, so there are a lot from the 1998-2002 era, and I had about a 5-6 year break when I was living in Boston. I didn't realize this was a goal for myself until earlier this year - and I can say the only one I visited just for completion was Stephen Sondheim since I had never really been interested in & Juliet.

Top 3 Most Visited Theatres: Longacre (9), Nederlander (8), Shubert (6)

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Al Hirschfeld: Sweet Charity, How to Succeed in Business, Moulin Rouge (2x), A Tale of Two Cities

Ambassador: Bring in da Noise Bring in da Funk (2x)

August Wilson: Funny Girl, Jersey Boys, Cabaret, Little Women

Belasco: Ain't No Mo, Girl From the North Country

Bernard B. Jacobs: Company (2x)

Booth: Kimberly Akimbo

Broadhurst: Cats The Jellicle Ball, Fosse, Equus

Broadway: Bombay Dreams, Gatsby

Circle in the Square: Rocky Horror Show, American Buffalo

Ethel Barrymore: The Life, Paradise Square, Othello

Eugene O'Neill: Grease, Spring Awakening

Gerald Schoenfeld: A Chorus Line, Jeykll & Hyde

Gershwin: Showboat, Riverdance

Hayes: Between Riverside and Crazy, Take Me Out, The Kite Runner

Hudson: Every Brilliant Thing

Imperial: Les Miserables, Billy Elliott, Chess

James Earl Jones: The Cripple of Innishman, Fear of 13

John Golden: Topdog/Underdog, Hangmen, Operation Mincemeat

Lena Horne: The Odd Couple, Six

Longacre: Macbeth, Leopoldstadt, Two Strangers Carry a Cake, Dead Outlaw (6x)

Lunt-Fontanne: Sweeney Todd (2x), The Addams Family, Death Becomes Her, Beauty and the Beast

Lyceum: A Strange Loop, Oh Mary

Lyric: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Majestic: Phantom of the Opera, Gypsy, Beaches

Marquis: Annie Get Your Gun, The Drowsy Chaperone, Beetlejuice, Once Upon a One More Time

Minskoff: Saturday Night Fever, Fiddler on the Roof

Music Box: Deuce, Giant

Nederlander: Rent (5x but this is a guess... might have been more?), Shucked (2x), Schmigadoon

Neil Simon: The Music Man, Swan Lake

New Amsterdam: The Lion King

Palace: Aida, West Side Story, The Lost Boys

Richard Rogers: Seussical, Footloose, In the Heights, Hamilton, Romeo & Juliet

Samuel J. Friedman: The Balusters

Shubert: Chicago (2x), Spamalot, To Kill a Mockingbird, POTUS, Some Like it Hot

St. James: The Producers, Into the Woods, Sunset Boulevard, Titanique

Stephen Sondheim: & Juliet

Studio 54: Cabaret, Rocky Horror Show (3x so far), Pictures From Home

Todd Haimes: 1776

Vivian Beaumont: Contact, South Pacific, Ragtime

Walter Kerr: Grey Gardens, The Heiress, Hadestown

Wintergarden: Cats, Mamma Mia, The Music Man

And there we have it! There are definitely some long running shows I notably haven't seen yet (Hi, Wicked and Book of Mormon!) Trying to remember what year I saw Beauty and the Beast or Chicago to get the theatres right was a good test for my memory lol.

Of all the theatres, seeing Dead Outlaw so many times made the Longacre feel like home (lol) so if asked, that's probably my favorite, just because it feels comfy to me and I have such fond memories there. I used to hate on the St. James, but sitting in orchestra was a whole different experience. Some of the theatres I haven't been in for a very long time so I can't say I remember the theatre itself very well lol (ex: I remember nothing about the Ambassador except lil tap dancer me being in the front row mesmerized and Savion Glover giving me a broken drumstick off the stage lol)

What's next? Is conquering off-Broadway a thing?

EDIT: OMG I MISSED ONE. Romeo & Juliet at the Richard Rogers. Adding it in.

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u/savestheday91 — 1 day ago

Last year I tried to make a nicely themed spread for my Tony party. Bread Outlaw, Jeb Brownies, some Gypsy inspired egg rolls, a toothpick with Jennifer Simards face on it that I stuck through a donut... was it cohesive, no, but it was fun.

Now looking at options for this year. It looks like I may need to make corn pudding 🤣 "rocky" road ice cream? Jello-cle cats? Wedding cake, or maybe fortune cookies like Two Strangers has been doing for promo?

Anyone have any inspired snack ideas based on the nominees now that we have them?

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u/savestheday91 — 17 days ago