I do not have any theater programs, so I shall have to use my memory for 1959-1965. My list is not as impressive as actor61's because for the entire time I lived in the suburbs of Boston
SILENT NIGHT, LONELY NIGHT with Henry Fonda and Barbara Bel Geddes
A MAJORITY OF ONE with Gertrude Berg and Cedric Hardwicke
TAKE ME ALONG with Walter Pidgeon and Jackie Gleason
GYPSY with Ethel Merman (Broadway and Boston)
THE SOUND OF MUSIC with Mary Martin
TAKE HER SHE'S MINE with Art Carney and Elizabeth Ashley
MARY MARY with Barbara Bel Geddes
SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING with Sydney Chaplin and Phyllis Newman
I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE with Elliott Gould and Barbra Streisand
TOVARICH (musical) with Vivien Leigh
THE THREE SISTERS with Kim Stanley
AFTER THE FALL with Barbara Loden and Jason Robards
FUNNY GIRL with Barbra Streisand
WILDCAT with Lucille Ball
FLORA THE RED MENACE with Liza Minnelli
OLIVER with Georgia Brown
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER with Barbara Harris
(I am sure my memory has let me down, but the best I could do in about 20 minutes of thought.)
My young niece who is in drama school is coming for a visit, and so I'm getting out old programs and playbills to share with her as one of her subjects is Theatre History and she wants to do some research. I'm 64 and trained for the theatre in London from 1970 to 1972, then embarked on a long and really fascinating career all over the world. The theatre in London was cheap in those days and on nights when I didn't have rehearsals at school, I bolted for the West End to see anything and everything. You could sit in the second balcony (Upper Circle) for 50 pence and with a good pair of opera glasses or binoculars, you didn't miss a thing. The National Theatre was still at the Old Vic as their new facility on the South Bank hadn't yet opened, and the Young Vic was at a smaller theatre also in Waterloo, as I remember. The Royal Shakespare Company played fall and winter seasons at the Aldwych, and they also did performances at a converted train station called the Roundhouse. A lot of the National's and RSC's productions transferred to the West End, so I saw various things by them at the New and Wyndham's. Here's a list of some of the remarkable things I saw.
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at the New Theatre with Laurence Olivier, Constance Cumming, Ronald Pickup and Dennis Quilly. Unforgettable
THE BEAUX STRATAGEM at the Old Vic with Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens.
TWELFTH NIGHT at the Aldwych with Judi Dench, Donald Sinden and Michael Williams
Peter Brook's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at the Aldwych with, among others, Ben Kingsley
ROMEO & JULIET at the Young Vic
TAMING OF THE SHREW at the Young Vic with Jim Dale
THE MAIDS at the Young Vic with an all male cast including Nicki Henson
JUMPERS at the Old Vic with Michael Hordern and Diana Rigg
COMPANY at Her Majesty's with the B'way cast, including Larry Kert and Elaine Stritch
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at Her Majesty's with Alfie Bass and then Lex Gouldsmit
VIVAT, VIVAT REGINA with Eileen Atkins and Sarah Miles
CHARLEY'S AUNT with Tom Courtenay
SHOWBOAT with Cleo Laine as Julie
WHEN THOU ART KING - Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V in one evening at the Roundhouse with Michael Williams
PETER PAN with Dorothy Tutin at the Coliseum
TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, Bejart ballet with Jorge Donn and Suzanne Farrell at Sadlers Wells
A BEQUEST TO THE NATION at the Haymarket with Zoe Caldwell
A VOYAGE AROUND MY FATHER at the Haymarket with Alec Guiness and then Michael Redgrave
MAN IS MAN at the Royal Court with Georgia Brown
PROMISES, PROMISES at the Prince of Wales with Tony Roberts and Betty Buckley
HOME with Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud
LLOYD GEORGE KNEW MY FATHER at the Savoy with Ralph Richardson and Peggy Ashcroft
CHILD'S PLAY at the Globe (now the Gielgud, I think)
HEDDA GABLER with Maggie Smith directed by Ingmar Bergman at the Old Vic
BUTLEY with Richard Briers
HAIR at the Shafstbury
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at the Palace
ABELARD AND HELOISE with Keith Michell and Diana Rigg at the New
GONE WITH THE WIND, the Musical (I'm not kidding!) at the Drury Lane with Harve Presnell as Rhett, June Ritchie as Scarlett and Bessie Love as Aunt Pittypat
I'd love to hear from others on their theatregoing experiences, especially Broadway, as I spent so much of my career in Europe and didn't see a lot of the very famous B'way shows unless they transferred overseas.
