THE SHOW MUST GO ON (Oh, The Plays I've Seen--updated list)

                                 

This year, I have enjoyed an extraordinarily satisfying run of live theater-going experiences. It's time to update my list of the plays I've seen.

And I tell you, some of these recent performances have been nothing short of brilliant: A concert presentation of Company at the Everson Museum's Covey Theater, the touring company of Hadestown at The Landmark Theatre, Once at Syracuse Stage, culminating in the spectacle of Six at the Landmark--all simply awe-inspiring. A production of Godspell at the Redhouse was likewise a fulfilling, fascinating day at the theater. Even more recently, Great Northern Arts Collaborative staged a magnificent production of Phantasmagoria's Tales By Candlelight, an accomplished presentation of 19th century horror stories that was like every Batman comic book I've ever loved, only more so. I thank the good fortune that allowed me these opportunities to witness such wonderful displays of live theater.

As I wrote in a separate post in 2020: "After finally experiencing my first-ever play on Broadway in 2019, I hoped to make that an annual event. The pandemic deferred that plan, but Broadway will return, and I will return to it." I look forward to adding more plays to this list...someday.

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As a companion to my ongoing Virtual Ticket Stub Gallery of pop performers I've seen in live concerts, and a follow-up to my love letter to theater, this list will attempt to make note of every live play I've ever seen. The limits of memory place an even greater restriction on this than on my concert-goin' resumé recreation, but I'll continue to update this list as both sudden recollection and (I hope) new live theater experiences dictate.

This list does not differentiate between musicals and dramatic plays, nor does it care if the setting was Broadway, off-Broadway, the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London, Syracuse Stage, community theater, college campuses, high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, or Shakespeare in the park. As always: the play's the thing.




35mm: A Musical Celebration

Amahl And The Night Visitors

Anything Goes
Beatlemania!
Brigadoon
Bye Bye Birdie
Carnival
Carousel

A Christmas Carol

Co-Op (eration)

Come From Away

The Comedy Of Errors

Company
Dames At Sea
Damn Yankees

Die Fledermaus
Fiddler On The Roof

Freaky Friday

Godspell
The Grapes Of Wrath
Grease
Guys And Dolls

Hadestown
Hair

Hello, Dolly!
High School Musical
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman
Jerry's Girls
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
La Cage Aux Folles
The Last Five Years

Mean Girls

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
The Music Man
Oklahoma!
Oliver!

Once
The Pajama Game
Pippin

Plaza Suite

Rise: The Rock Musical
The Rocky Horror Show

School Of Rock

The Second City--65th Anniversary Show

Six

Tales By Candlelight
The Tempest
Thoughts Of A Colored Man
Three Men On A Horse
Twelfth Night
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
West Side Story
Wicked
The Wizard Of Oz
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

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