I don't think losing a kidney is a way to go for tickets, Lil, but sometimes the tickets cost that much. I'm glad to see so many enthusiasts, and something that was said reminded me.
If Buffalo, we have what's called "Shakespeare in the Park." There's an outdoor stage, and put on several Shakespeare plays every year, it's always fantastic. My favorite of those was <em>Comedy of Errors</em> - because it was updated. Several of the main characters were Elvis empersonaters... lol - I just remember laughing through the whole thing.

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i absolutly LUV theatre, i used to be in all the productions whe i was in high scholl and i totally miss it all, everything from stagecraft to the adrinaline rush of the preformance. the last one i went to was "gypsy" several years ago when i was still unmarried and still stateside. i keep hinting to jeeping that id luv to go see some plays here, but when we have a chance we dont have the money my absolute fave is "my fair lady" i just luv that! musicals are my fav but i luv to see em all, i saw "cats" when it toured tho little rock that show kicked ass, i luved all the dancing and costumes it was awsome

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I too used to do Theatre when I was younger. I miss it so much! What a rush it was. I haven't been able to see as many in recent years, last summer we attended a play at a "summer theatre" I can't recall the title, but I loved it. The last "big" production I saw was "Rent". My mother gave me tickets for Christmas one year. When I was young, we would go to NYC at least once a year and see something on Broadway, so I have been quite fortunate. I love all types of theatre, musicals, drama, comedies. On a side note....I have never been to a ballet, but have always wanted to. I danced for over 13 years and loved ballet. When I was young, I had the opportunity to perform with a theatre company in NYC at Lincoln Center. Well my family came to see me perform and while I was busy with rehersals and performances etc...They went and saw the NYC Ballet perform. I was so jealous, especially because my siblings couldn't have cared any less for ballet! But they did get me a souvenier beach towel...lol How very thoughtful of them!

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Lilith,

We did catch “Oliver” when it was in town, and during the last season, we enjoyed “Rigoletto”, and the season before that “Don Giovanni”.

“A Doll’s House” was the last serious (downer) we saw. Ibsen had a severe perspective on the human condition.

So, I guess I’d go with the Musical label.

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I started out as an Acting major in college. With my schedule of traveling, I don't get to be in plays at all anymore. Once I get a job that has me home every night, I know that I will do more community theater. I'm a fan of musicals. My favorite musical to be in was My Fair Lady. Playing an arrogant SOB was pretty fun. Some people said I played it too well, in fact.

My all time favorite musical is Guys and Dolls. My goal is to play Sky Masterson once before I die. (And yes, that's how I coined the name Skyler for myself years ago...)

As a more general overview, I love Neil Simon. He has amazing thought and wit when he writes plays.

Okay, enough of me...

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Plays are one of my favorite forms of entertainment... but unfortunately none of my friends feel the same way.. and without a special guy to go along, I haven't seen one in ages... it isn't exactly a solo event (or atleast it doesn't seem so to me).

Love going to the theater! My personal favorite is "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare...Abridged!!!" by The Reduced Shakespeare Co. Was hilarious!!!
I also love going to see the melodramas that a local troupe put on in a antique operahouse not far from me in the summers.

I've had to go to a couple alone when no one else wanted or could go with me. I know I felt strange at first sitting there by myself, but I was surprised to find that there were many people my age, men and women, there alone.

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Lixy.........Cary Grant , who IMO was wonderful!

Loved that movie.......

I love theater... but haven't been recently due to funds and lack of people willing to go with me. I have only been to a limited number of productions but have a long list of ones I would love to see. I have seen Rent several times - including alone in NYC. I also particularly like things like STOMP and Tap Dogs - and would love to go to Vegas and see Blue Man Group.

When I went alone in NYC, I made the decision that I would rather feel awkward going alone than regretting not having gone at all. Once I was in the theater, I found myself forgetting I was alone and being able to truly enjoy the show.

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I saw STOMP last year....It was sooooo awesome. I'm going to Vegas in June and we are trying to decide if Blue Man Group is on our "must do" list.

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Live theater is one of the joys in life, to me it doesn't matter if it's a school play or a broadway production I'm always game to go!
My favorite though was my 1st broadway production I saw
"THE MAN OF LA MANCHA" I was 7 or 8 years old at the time and
I've been hooked ever since.

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There's NOTHING I won't see....I LOVE theater. Given my choice of where to put my money, I don't tend towards musicals. I do enjoy them when I see them, just not my favorites.

I just saw Albee's new play (The Goat or Who is Sylvia) literally last night, and thought I was going to cry twice. Once because I was laughing so hard, and once because there was a moment so beautiful and awkwardly wrong that there was no other way to respond. The actors were given an incredible challenge, they had to keep up serious dramatic acting with a script that was going to make the audience howl with laughter...and they had to make us sympathize with the incomprehensible. But they did it, I was grateful just to have seen it. Oh, and the set was fantastic.

My favorite? I can't tell you. Like Ready4Ty, I saw Angels in America on stage, when it was first produced in London. I went back twice more. I've avoided the HBO version out of fear that it won't live up to my memories. I saw Ian McKellan do Uncle Vanya in a tiny theater. I saw Copenhagen in NY, then again after I moved to London less than a year later. That was a hell of a chance to compare.

Too many special experiences to pick one. It's like picking among your kids . I think I'll just assume I haven't seen my favoite yet.

Ready4Ty: if you're in Buffalo, do you get out to the Shaw festival in Niagra on the Lake often? It's just the other side of the border from you, and it's amazing....I miss it desperately.

G (who's taking her dramageek self away from this thread now....before she bores everyone rigid, and not in a good way)

I've never actually been to the Shaw Festival, though I have heard many fantastic things about it. I love Niagara-on-the-Lake, though, it's beautiful there. Other local things that I enjoy are the Shakespeare productions up in Stratford. I haven't been in a long time, I think the last I saw up there was Taming of the Shrew, but that's always a good time too.
I do recommend seeing the HBO version of Angels in America. I didn't think that it would be as good either, but the cinematography was amazing. Something that you don't get on the stage. And Meryl Streep was dead-on as Ethel Rosenburg. I've looked at pictures since... and the costume/make-up people did an amazing job.

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I see your fantasy... you want to make it a reality

Are you in the mood to be subdued

You see these shackles
Baby I’m your slave
I’ll let you whip me if I misbehave

Tie me to the bedpost

I like it rough
cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

I saw both Stomp and Blue Man Group. Loved both of them. The music from Blue Man was absolutely amazing. I even bought the CD after the show.

Going back to my previous post... they recently released Guys and Dolls on DVD that has been enhanced. It's the 50th anniversary of it's Broadway debut.

Yes, I already bought it...

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