Definitive (ahem) Musical List

With my recent trips to the theatre I have felt inspired to try create a list of all the musicals I have seen. Now, you may not know, but that's quite a daunting prospect for me, because I have been so privileged to go to so many.  So I doubt this will ever be complete, but here goes.

Primary School age ish

1. Cats - New London Theatre.  Twice.
2. Me and My Girl.  London Twice.
3. Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.  London.  8th Birthday.
4. Grease.  London
5. Oliver.  London with Greigs.
6. Guys and Dolls.  National Theatre
7. Buddy. London
8. Starlight Express.  Apollo Victoria.

Secondary School age ish

1. Saturday Night Fever.  London
2. Phantom of the Opera.  Her Majesty's Theatre
3. The Beautiful Game.  London 6th December 2000
4. Lion King.  Lyceum 15th December 2000
5. Cathedral of Notre-Dame  - Oops - couldn't remember the name there.  Actually is Notre-Dame De Paris of course!  Dominion. 22nd June 2001
6. The King and I.  Palladiumn 22nd September 2001 
7.  Starlight Express.  Apollo Victoria 26th October 2001
8.  Grease.  Dominion. At a different time I guess! 29th October 2001
9.   Kiss Me Kate.  Victoria Palace 1st December 2001
10.  later on 15/5 Pirates of Penzance.  Wimbledon 16th March 2002
11. Les Miserables.  London 15th June 2002
12. My Fair Lady.  Theatre Royal Drury Lane.  Twice.  Once for my 18th Birthday and then we took a friend for her birthday.  12th October 2002 13th August 2003
13. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.  Palladium 1st February 2003
14. Anything Goes.  National Theatre 7th February 2003
15. Buddy.  Las Vegas.
16. Oh What a Lovely War.  Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Gap year + Uni age ish

1. Anything Goes.  Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th July 2004
2. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.  National Theatre 16th September 2004
3. Chicago.  Twice.  London (on the Strand somewhere-Adelphi) 30th April 2004 and Oxford.
4. Phantom of the Opera.  Her Majesty's.1st September 2004
5. Fame.  Aldwych 1st October 2004
6. Footloose.  New Theatre Oxford
7. Mary Poppins.  London (Palladium?)
8. Sound of Music.  London Palladium
9. Joseph and His Amazing Technicoloured Dreamcoat.  London (on the Strand somewhere)
10. Billy Elliot.  Victoria Palace
11. Starlight Express Tour.  New Theatre Oxford.  Twice.
12. Beauty and the Beast. New Theatre Oxford
13. By Jeeves. Playhouse Oxford.
14. Cats.  New Theatre Oxford
15. Hello Dolly.  New Theatre Oxford.
16. The Lord of the Rings the musical.  Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
17. Me and My Girl.  Malvern
18. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.  Malvern
19. Anything Goes.  Malvern
20. Return to Forbidden Planet.  Malvern
21. Buddy.  Malvern
22. later on 15/5 Singing in the Rain.  Malvern (might have been PGCE year)
23. On the Town.  ENO Colosseum, London 

PGCE year

1. Me and My Girl.  Charity performance.  Palladium
2. Blood Brothers.  Mayflower, Southampton.
3. Evita. Mayflower, Southampton
4. Dreamboats and Petticoats, Mayflower, Southampton
5. Wicked.  Apollo Victoria

Working Life -Sept 2009+

1. Hairspray.  Shaftesbury Theatre
2. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.  New Theatre Oxford.  Twice (consecutive nights!)
3. Rocky Horror Show.  Malvern
4. Les Miserables.  Queen's Theatre
5. Dirty Dancing Aldwych Theatre

Wow!  Am totally chuffed that I have done this all in one go and remembered so many! 8 +14 + 18 + 5 + 5 = 50!  Isn't that awesome, off the top of my head I can remember 50 musicals :-)  Oooh, just added Buddy in Malvern!  Am looking forward to remembering the others I have forgotten and adding them on.  I did keep a musicals diary record book for a few years at the end of Secondary School, so if I find that one day I might be able to add some from that.  What fun!  Am feeling like I would like to add on who I saw the shows with but don't want to write too much...  we shall see.  Oooh, just remembered The King and I - one of my faves!  Listening to EP on Sunday on iplayer and they've just started playing Lambeth Walk - def on of my faves!  Also could look at the CDs I've got as am sure that would add a few. And just remembered Funny Thing which was one of the reasons for the post in the first place!

Later on 15/5  Wasn't sure whether to put this one in and as it would require explanation I decided to just add it on the bottom here.  South Pacific.  Malvern Theatre.  During my uni years.  This was an amateur production and I had slightly hesitantly gone along to it as haven't been a big fan of the music though never seen the whole thing. And there was a power cut just a little way into the second half!!  So we all had to leave.  So I still haven't quite seen it! So maybe shouldn't be in my adding up!

22/7/15 While clearing out the flat, I refound my musicals notebook that I started on Sunday 28th October 2001 until 2005 so I am updated dates from there.  I have also added lots of theatre tickets to it.   I also have a newer ticket notebook.  Exciting blog moment.  I have just downloaded the blogger app to my phone and uploaded these photos via that.  But had to come back to computer to rearrange them!!