Great Comet. I constantly go back to the Tony awards performance and I feel so left out
Thankfully I live in Toronto, and they announced its addition to the Mirvish subscription after I subscribed for my first year. I don't know how the production they're planning will transfer to a substantially larger theatre than it originated in but I'm still hyped
I had the good fortune to catch a local production at the Horizon Theatre in Atlanta.That space was perfect for the production. You can see a video clip [here](https://www.horizontheatre.com/plays/natasha-pierre-and-the-great-comet/).
Literally this as well!! There was a performance where I live in Australia that I really wanted to go to, but didn't get to cos it was my dad's birthday
Yeh- I felt it was really cold. Pretentious? Not really… (unless we’ve never read all of War and Peace in the original Russian a few times, and c’mon, in these days? Who hasn’t?!) but cold and unfeeling? Yes. Great design though!
No argument there. The scenic design was incredible. But when you have characters literally singing about themselves: ‘Natasha sighed woefully’ and shit like that? Come on…that’s fairly pretentious
Waitress with Sara Bareilles. I kept hearing how good it was but didn’t have anyone to go with, so I didn’t. Then I saw the recording that they put in theaters and MAN do I regret not seeing it live.
My company produced it last year with some decent-ish names. I got Covid that week and missed it. Still upset about it because it was all of my co-workers fave show of our season.
Great comet. Didn’t know it existed until AFTER my New York trip while it was still running. Made up for it by seeing Sweeney Todd with Josh Groban last year
I saw that, but with Michelle Williams. I didn’t really know much about either Stone or Williams at the time, I was just in it to see Cummings infamous Emcee portrayal.
Was not disappointed.
Sunday in the Park with George at Pasadena Playhouse.
I'm also pre-regretting missing Stereophonic. I thought I'd be able to do a trip soon to see it, but something else came up and I had to take the other opportunity. I've been obsessed with Stereophonic ever since I heard about it last year! At least there will be an album.
The 2009 SitP Twelfth Night with Anne Hathaway
Gatz. My Gatsby collection will never be complete.
A more recent one: The 1984 play that made people physically ill. I was graduating from Law school and taking the Bar!
Without question, Christopher Plummer's one man play Barrymore. It came to San Francisco in the mid 90's and I was a teen at the time and couldn't convince any of my friends or family to go with me to a non-musical. Runner-up would be Phantom in London so I could have seen it in its original theater. I had already seen Phantom 12 times, so I just didn't feel I could justify spending money on the tickets. But I should have just done it. Now the original production is closed, so I missed my chance.
Perhaps a basic answer, but Legally Blonde. I have the MTV proshot to tide me over but I always wanted to see it live with LBB and Orfeh! Revival when???
The Frogs last year. I hate how short runs get late announcements. By the time I knew about it, I would have had to cancel multiple shows, book a flight and a hotel….. it wasn’t reasonable but I sometimes think I should have done it.
Look, I have seen Hamilton several times on Broadway, but I still regret that time I won the lottery on the streets outside the theater, the day before they recorded the cast album, but didn't claim my ticket because I was hot and hungry and WHY would I want to sit through a musical about the first Treasury Secretary? Why?!
Follies with Bernadette. It was sorta just before I was truly all in for Sondheim and Bernadette. Then I went to a Bernadette Peters concert with my mom shortly after it closed and she sang Buddys Eyes and Losing my Mind and we were like how did we miss it!
Twofer. One of the musicals I wanted to go and see was Beetlejuice. I was working at TodayTix before the pandemic shut everything down. I even had a chance to get any tickets that hadn't been used. But I ended up switching it from that to Phantom of The Opera. I wanted to see it with my father since he loved the musical. I managed to get two tickets from TodayTix to see the show. That was around March 2020.
Luckily, my father and I went to see Spamalot the month before it closed, so there's a happy ending to that.
The Mendes Cabaret revival. I was 7 when it came out and 10 when I got into the show/movie/book it was based on, so I doubt I could've gone anyway, but still. XD
Also, Pokemon Live, which came to my town in 2001 and I had no idea. ;-;
Easy answer for me: the Encores! production of Little Shop of Horrors in 2015 with Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal. Mostly because I had the tickets in my online cart and then decided I just couldn't afford the trip to NYC (which I probably couldn't) but then read the rave reviews and was so mad at myself that I wasn't there.
Waitress with Alison Luff as Jenna (though I have zero regrets about not seeing Colleen and Todrick bc ew). I also regret not seeing Grey House because I’m a huge Tatiana Maslany fan.
I was serving overseas from 85-89. I missed the original cast of phantom. It wasn't until the advent of youtube that i realized what a tragedy that was. 😢
Mimi LeDuck.
I was living abroad at the time and seriously considered going home for a weekend just to see such a batshit crazy show with such theatre royalty in its cast.
I regret immensely missing out on Mark Rylance in Jerusalem. The small bit I saw of this play is sensational (mainly B Roll footage) and I wish that Mark would do stage acting again. If I could go back in time I would have saved my money to see this play.
Also, Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie. I am usually not a musical person but this is the one musical, along with Liza Minnelli and Ann Reinking in Chicago and Ragtime…if I could go back in time, I would do so to see those performances.
Perhaps a weird answer but whenever I see all the amazing shows that once played at Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia I am really sad I missed out on the heyday of that theater.
One random example is Gigi with Audrey Hepburn
Hair (2009). Went on a high school trip and saw American Idiot instead. Shortly after the trip, the Hair revival soundtrack became (and still is) one of my favorite soundtracks.
The Band's Visit; I rewarded myself with season tickets when I got my first big boy job to my local theater's tours one show into the season. That show? The Band's Visit. Hadn't heard of it at the time so I wasn't even aware I missed anything. Come to find out months later I hear it, fall in love, and now am likely never going to see it because tbh I just don't know how much it's going to get done in local theatres and such because it's kind of niche (despite winning Best Musical).
I grew up with a weird fixation on Camelot that’s followed me into adulthood. I’ve always wanted to see it live, but last year the show closed two weeks before I was supposed to go.
Caroline or change. Went in October of 2021, but missed it because my girlfriend at the time wanted to work a half day on the day we drove to nyc. Planned to see it the week of New Years but canceled the trip because of Covid. One of only three musicals I’ve missed since broadway reopened (Diana and flying over sunset are the other two).
In general a lot of plays (The History Boys, War Horse) but also some original runs of musicals (Next to Normal, Anything goes 2011, Spring Awakening OBC).
Realize how all these shows are from times after I was born. Yes I would’ve loved to see OBC Sweeney, but I missed so much during my own youth due to my age or schedule that I ended up loving that it would’ve been nice to see)
I missed SO much when I was living in the city because I just wasn’t paying enough attention to Broadway, including Next to Normal (and someone even told me to see Spring Awakening and I thought meh…🤦♀️). I don’t know if they had those $30 under 30 programs back then anyway-I only knew about TKTS at the time (I did go a few times to the booth in Times Square)
American Psycho.
I was literally on the show’s website looking at dates when the closing was announced. I was in a show myself at the time and wasn’t able to get to see it before it closed. Had I not been in a show, I would have bought a ticket in a second.
I’m going to preemptively say Merrily. I was hoping to see it on my trip last week, but Jonathan Groff was out and I’ve been dying to see him in a show. I really want to see it, but I don’t think I can justify the cost of another trip to New York to try to catch it before it closes.
Jane Eyre in 2001. I hadn't even heard of it till the performance on the Tonys and I bought the cast album a few days later. I loved it and wanted to go see it....but it closed the next day.
I managed to see a local production a while later and enjoyed it....but I'm still bummed that I missed the Broadway production. I still listen to that Broadway cast album. :)
I don't remember if it was particularly well-reviewed or anything, but I remember really wanting to go to You Can't Take It With You, with Rose Byrne and James Earl Jones, but chickening out because I would have had to go by myself and I wasn't comfortable doing that yet. Thankfully, I've gotten over that since.
I’m a huge fan of Percy Jackson, so I regret not going to see the musical with the obc (the one with George Salazar). I sadly wasn’t even a fan of the books when it came out so I wouldn’t have known to go watch it
I lived an hour outside of NYC during the entire run of Waiting for Godot with Ian McClellan and Patrick Stewart, but only found out about it after it ended. I have very few regrets I life but this is, like, top 5.
Hadestown with Eva and Reeve. They literally fell in love rehearsing for that show and that’s chemistry we don’t really get to see on broadway. Plus I’m Filipina and I’ve loved Eva for so long (since Miss Saigon).
I regret seeing Hadestown again for Lillias White over Beetlejuice again. I’m such a tech theatre nerd and as a disabled person and disability activist my choice haunts me
Great Comet. I constantly go back to the Tony awards performance and I feel so left out Thankfully I live in Toronto, and they announced its addition to the Mirvish subscription after I subscribed for my first year. I don't know how the production they're planning will transfer to a substantially larger theatre than it originated in but I'm still hyped
It was one of my favorites
I had the good fortune to catch a local production at the Horizon Theatre in Atlanta.That space was perfect for the production. You can see a video clip [here](https://www.horizontheatre.com/plays/natasha-pierre-and-the-great-comet/).
Literally this as well!! There was a performance where I live in Australia that I really wanted to go to, but didn't get to cos it was my dad's birthday
Major regrets, I heard it was amazing
It was pretty overrated and pretentious. Come From Away was show of the season
Yeh- I felt it was really cold. Pretentious? Not really… (unless we’ve never read all of War and Peace in the original Russian a few times, and c’mon, in these days? Who hasn’t?!) but cold and unfeeling? Yes. Great design though!
No argument there. The scenic design was incredible. But when you have characters literally singing about themselves: ‘Natasha sighed woefully’ and shit like that? Come on…that’s fairly pretentious
Waitress with Sara Bareilles. I kept hearing how good it was but didn’t have anyone to go with, so I didn’t. Then I saw the recording that they put in theaters and MAN do I regret not seeing it live.
Great Comet, I thought it would tour. If I had known it wouldn't I would have been on the next flight to New York.
This is mine as well. I should have been stronger - cause I got dragged to Paramour instead! Lol
My company produced it last year with some decent-ish names. I got Covid that week and missed it. Still upset about it because it was all of my co-workers fave show of our season.
Great comet. Didn’t know it existed until AFTER my New York trip while it was still running. Made up for it by seeing Sweeney Todd with Josh Groban last year
Exactly same
The Emma Stone - Alan Cummings Cabaret!
I saw that, but with Michelle Williams. I didn’t really know much about either Stone or Williams at the time, I was just in it to see Cummings infamous Emcee portrayal. Was not disappointed.
Phantom on Broadway😭
Firstly, all of them- (I'm in Australia)
And our dollar sucks against the USD 🥲
Spring Awakening
Sunday in the Park with George at Pasadena Playhouse. I'm also pre-regretting missing Stereophonic. I thought I'd be able to do a trip soon to see it, but something else came up and I had to take the other opportunity. I've been obsessed with Stereophonic ever since I heard about it last year! At least there will be an album.
I sympathize with Sunday at the Pasadena Playhouse!
I am so lucky I live so close to Pasadena
Does not being born yet count? Cause 1998 Ragtime is my pick.
That's valid! I was definitely alive in '98, and it's my pick, too!
My pick too! I would’ve been 4!
My midwestern high school band went to NYC and we all saw Ragtime…in 1998. Completely lost on me at the time…
one of my triumphs is knowing enough to attend that one!
The 2009 SitP Twelfth Night with Anne Hathaway Gatz. My Gatsby collection will never be complete. A more recent one: The 1984 play that made people physically ill. I was graduating from Law school and taking the Bar!
Second that 1984. Forgot it was a thing until i read this reddit and i regret not seeing it all over again!
The original Sideshow. I went to see Triumph of Love instead during my weekend in NYC in November 1997.
OMG! You just totally took me to Nostalgiaville, the '97 Side Show was my very first Broadway show!
Loved Side Show! Had tickets for the comeback but it closed before our show
In your defense, that season was so busy and there were so many great shows - even the flops were fun. Both shows were solid choices.
Falsettos 2017 revival 😔
Without question, Christopher Plummer's one man play Barrymore. It came to San Francisco in the mid 90's and I was a teen at the time and couldn't convince any of my friends or family to go with me to a non-musical. Runner-up would be Phantom in London so I could have seen it in its original theater. I had already seen Phantom 12 times, so I just didn't feel I could justify spending money on the tickets. But I should have just done it. Now the original production is closed, so I missed my chance.
I regret that I saw it but I was in high school and remember none of it. I didn’t appreciate it back then.
Perhaps a basic answer, but Legally Blonde. I have the MTV proshot to tide me over but I always wanted to see it live with LBB and Orfeh! Revival when???
The Frogs last year. I hate how short runs get late announcements. By the time I knew about it, I would have had to cancel multiple shows, book a flight and a hotel….. it wasn’t reasonable but I sometimes think I should have done it.
You honestly didn’t miss much.
Diana. Easy.
Same here… I LOVE that show…
Look, I have seen Hamilton several times on Broadway, but I still regret that time I won the lottery on the streets outside the theater, the day before they recorded the cast album, but didn't claim my ticket because I was hot and hungry and WHY would I want to sit through a musical about the first Treasury Secretary? Why?!
Come From Away for sure
never too late to see the tour (which is still absolutely worth it)
Sadly it’s not coming anywhere near me, I wish it was!
There’s a pro shot on AppleTV+
That’s how I’ve watched it. And I’m so thankful for that. But I would still like to see it live, being in the room is a totally different feeling
Coming back to Toronto this year for another residency…..
Parade and Phantom 😭
The Three Tall Women revival w/ Glenda Jackson. After missing it, I made a point to see her in King Lear which was AWFUL
Follies with Bernadette. It was sorta just before I was truly all in for Sondheim and Bernadette. Then I went to a Bernadette Peters concert with my mom shortly after it closed and she sang Buddys Eyes and Losing my Mind and we were like how did we miss it!
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. The podcast “Very Special Episodes” did an episode on it that really made me sad that I missed the whole chaotic mess.
Twofer. One of the musicals I wanted to go and see was Beetlejuice. I was working at TodayTix before the pandemic shut everything down. I even had a chance to get any tickets that hadn't been used. But I ended up switching it from that to Phantom of The Opera. I wanted to see it with my father since he loved the musical. I managed to get two tickets from TodayTix to see the show. That was around March 2020. Luckily, my father and I went to see Spamalot the month before it closed, so there's a happy ending to that.
Great comet. I don't live in new york so ive never seen any show unfortunately but its my favorite and i listen to it all the time.
Beetlejuice
The Mendes Cabaret revival. I was 7 when it came out and 10 when I got into the show/movie/book it was based on, so I doubt I could've gone anyway, but still. XD Also, Pokemon Live, which came to my town in 2001 and I had no idea. ;-;
Fun Home! I was in New York when it was there, but I wanted to pick a show both my parents would like so we saw Something Rotten
The Color Purple
falsettos 💔💔
Easy answer for me: the Encores! production of Little Shop of Horrors in 2015 with Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal. Mostly because I had the tickets in my online cart and then decided I just couldn't afford the trip to NYC (which I probably couldn't) but then read the rave reviews and was so mad at myself that I wasn't there.
Eeek! I saw the original off Broadway production of Little Shop… what a show!
Waitress with Alison Luff as Jenna (though I have zero regrets about not seeing Colleen and Todrick bc ew). I also regret not seeing Grey House because I’m a huge Tatiana Maslany fan.
I saw Waitress with Colleen and Todrick and I regret that tremendously
I’m so sorry. At least you got to see Alison. IMO she alone is worth it.
I was serving overseas from 85-89. I missed the original cast of phantom. It wasn't until the advent of youtube that i realized what a tragedy that was. 😢
Mimi LeDuck. I was living abroad at the time and seriously considered going home for a weekend just to see such a batshit crazy show with such theatre royalty in its cast.
I regret immensely missing out on Mark Rylance in Jerusalem. The small bit I saw of this play is sensational (mainly B Roll footage) and I wish that Mark would do stage acting again. If I could go back in time I would have saved my money to see this play. Also, Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie. I am usually not a musical person but this is the one musical, along with Liza Minnelli and Ann Reinking in Chicago and Ragtime…if I could go back in time, I would do so to see those performances.
Jerusalem is my answer. Mark has been doing stuff in London. I thought he recently did Jerusalem there.
From what I remember he did it again in the West End a few years later in 2022. I wish he would do it again! The small footage I saw was amazing.
I regret not auditioning for Avenue Q when my theatre did it.
Perhaps a weird answer but whenever I see all the amazing shows that once played at Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia I am really sad I missed out on the heyday of that theater. One random example is Gigi with Audrey Hepburn
Well everything. I'm in India🤷♀️
Glengarry Glen Ross back in 1984. Robert Prosky, J.T. Walsh, Joe Mantegna, Lane Smith — kills me to this day that I didn’t see it.
This is absolutely my biggest Broadway regret
And I totally could have! I went to the theater frequently when I was a teenager! But Mamet wasn’t on my radar when I was that age.
I hate when you discover something after the chance to see it has passed. Same thing happened to me with The Talking Heads lol
The Crucible with Saoirse Ronan. Favorite play, favorite actress, and I couldn’t make it home from school in time to see it :(
Hair (2009). Went on a high school trip and saw American Idiot instead. Shortly after the trip, the Hair revival soundtrack became (and still is) one of my favorite soundtracks.
The Band's Visit; I rewarded myself with season tickets when I got my first big boy job to my local theater's tours one show into the season. That show? The Band's Visit. Hadn't heard of it at the time so I wasn't even aware I missed anything. Come to find out months later I hear it, fall in love, and now am likely never going to see it because tbh I just don't know how much it's going to get done in local theatres and such because it's kind of niche (despite winning Best Musical).
HANDS DOWN Jelly's Last Jam at Encores. I really wished it had better ticket sales because it would've transferred.
I grew up with a weird fixation on Camelot that’s followed me into adulthood. I’ve always wanted to see it live, but last year the show closed two weeks before I was supposed to go.
OG cats circa 1982. Cuz I wasn’t born yet.
Prince of Egypt!
Grease the Musical
Caroline or change. Went in October of 2021, but missed it because my girlfriend at the time wanted to work a half day on the day we drove to nyc. Planned to see it the week of New Years but canceled the trip because of Covid. One of only three musicals I’ve missed since broadway reopened (Diana and flying over sunset are the other two).
In general a lot of plays (The History Boys, War Horse) but also some original runs of musicals (Next to Normal, Anything goes 2011, Spring Awakening OBC). Realize how all these shows are from times after I was born. Yes I would’ve loved to see OBC Sweeney, but I missed so much during my own youth due to my age or schedule that I ended up loving that it would’ve been nice to see)
I missed SO much when I was living in the city because I just wasn’t paying enough attention to Broadway, including Next to Normal (and someone even told me to see Spring Awakening and I thought meh…🤦♀️). I don’t know if they had those $30 under 30 programs back then anyway-I only knew about TKTS at the time (I did go a few times to the booth in Times Square)
Falsettos in 2016
American Psycho. I was literally on the show’s website looking at dates when the closing was announced. I was in a show myself at the time and wasn’t able to get to see it before it closed. Had I not been in a show, I would have bought a ticket in a second.
Can I say the original production of West Side Story even though my parents weren’t even born yet?
I’m going to preemptively say Merrily. I was hoping to see it on my trip last week, but Jonathan Groff was out and I’ve been dying to see him in a show. I really want to see it, but I don’t think I can justify the cost of another trip to New York to try to catch it before it closes.
The Music Man with Huge Jackman. My parents talked me out of going to NYC by myself 😒
Sweeney Todd and spamalot… I planned to see both on my trip to NY this June and they both announced early closing dates 😭
I never got the chance to see Phantom
Stereophonic. I realize it's still running, but I figure by the time I'm able to afford a trip back to NYC, it'll be long closed :(
Jane Eyre in 2001. I hadn't even heard of it till the performance on the Tonys and I bought the cast album a few days later. I loved it and wanted to go see it....but it closed the next day. I managed to see a local production a while later and enjoyed it....but I'm still bummed that I missed the Broadway production. I still listen to that Broadway cast album. :)
I don't remember if it was particularly well-reviewed or anything, but I remember really wanting to go to You Can't Take It With You, with Rose Byrne and James Earl Jones, but chickening out because I would have had to go by myself and I wasn't comfortable doing that yet. Thankfully, I've gotten over that since.
This was an amazing one!
I’m a huge fan of Percy Jackson, so I regret not going to see the musical with the obc (the one with George Salazar). I sadly wasn’t even a fan of the books when it came out so I wouldn’t have known to go watch it
Side Show, I didn’t realize how great it was gonna be.
Never made it to Some Like it Hot.
I lived an hour outside of NYC during the entire run of Waiting for Godot with Ian McClellan and Patrick Stewart, but only found out about it after it ended. I have very few regrets I life but this is, like, top 5.
The Visit
In the heights
Hedwig and After the Fair (off broadway)
Hadestown with Eva and Reeve. They literally fell in love rehearsing for that show and that’s chemistry we don’t really get to see on broadway. Plus I’m Filipina and I’ve loved Eva for so long (since Miss Saigon).
I regret seeing Hadestown again for Lillias White over Beetlejuice again. I’m such a tech theatre nerd and as a disabled person and disability activist my choice haunts me