As
many others who travel to New York I saw a lot of other shows besides
"A Chorus Line" and looking at my comments brings back a lot of memories
and a few smiles.

The
special performance of "A Chorus Line" took place the evening after I
arrived in New York. The first show I saw was Harvey Fierstein's "Torch
Song Trilogy". He had left the show by then and a favorite actor of
mine, Jonathan Hadary, was in the role of Arnold.

"September
27, Tuesday, 1983--Went to see "Torch Song Trilogy"--LOVED it--cried a
lot--laughed a lot--former with Arnold's pain and hurt--his breakup with
Ed--his interplay with his mother--Sue picked us up in a limo. "

"September
28, Wednesday--Chuck and I went to see "Dreamgirls"--Buddy was one of
the very few white faces in the show--"And I Am Telling You I'm Not
Going" as the first act curtain song blew me away--WOW! That evening Bob
and I went to see "A Chorus Line"--none of it's power has diminished"

I've
already did the post of THE great "A Chorus Line" performance and went
to see it the following evening again and the euphoria made me see it
through the eyes of the previous day's performance.

"October
1, Saturday, 1983  Bill, Chuck, Tommy and I went to see the first
matinee performance of "La Cage Aux Folles"--the first act curtain song
sung by George Hearn, "I Am What I Am" was as shattering as the
"Dreamgirls" "And I Am Telling You I Am Not Going"

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"September
18, Wednesday 1985--arrived in city and went to see "As Is" starring
Jonathan Hardary--first AIDS play on Broadway--touching especially
brother's scene (A movie was eventually made starring Hardary and Robert
Carradine which I bought on tape and I believe is available on DVD--it
is certainly worth seeing as it is very true to the stage play)--that
evening I saw Lily Tomlin in "In Search of Intelligent Life in the
Universe" and she was a knock out!"

"September
20, Friday  1985--Kingsbery came in and he went to see "A Chorus Line"
while I went to see Bernadette Peters in "Song and Dance"--she was the
Song part and Christopher d'Ambroise was the Dance--it had officially
opened two nights before--the show was really not entertaining but
Peters sparkled"

"September 21, Saturday  1985--Bob and I went to see "A Chorus Line"--still the best"

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"September
22, Thursday  1988  Eleanor, Andy and I went to see "A Chorus Line"
--it was good but maybe I was tired--don't know--didn't have the usual
'chills and thrills'

"September
23, Friday--Andy and I went to see a revue at the Actor's Playhouse in
the Village called "10%"--cute but I don't think anyone will remember it
10 weeks from today--and, yes, if the title didn't tell you, it was a
revue about gays"

"September
24, Saturday--went to see "A Chorus Line"--much better tonight--
reminded me why I fell in love with it the first time--(Though I didn't
know it at the time it would be the last show I would ever see on
Broadway)"

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It
is unexplainable but there is something about seeing a show in New York
that gives you a feeling you don't get anywhere else. It is something
that everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime like
going to Rockefeller Center Christmas week--it can never, will never, be
duplicated anywhere else.

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