<p>alwaysamom, like you, I can’t recall my first show either, but I did see many at Camden County Music Fair which was about five minutes from my house. </p>
<p>snoggie, my kids also saw Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk when they were young (but it wasn’t their first Broadway show). On that trip we saw that show (my kids were both tap dancers and so this was especially intriguing…Savion Glover!) and we also saw A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, which I recall we were in the second row so close to Nathan Lane who starred in it. Long time ago.</p>
<p>And when they kids were little, they LOVED RENT and have seen it several times. Back in elementary school, D2 wrote a 20 page paper on Jonathan Larson, she was soooo infatuated with his work. I recall also driving them to Montreal when they were young to see A Chorus Line, one of my favorite shows, which I recall seeing in Boston when I was in college and waiting in a LONG line around the block to get tickets! Someone else mentioned Ragtime, but my kids were very into Ragtime and I’d say my younger D (the one who went into MT) was infatuated for a long time with Ragtime (I must have heard that CD 100’s of times in car rides) and then read the book too. When my D2 was younger, she performed around the country with an actress who was in the OBC of Ragtime (as was the actress’ partner) and the two of them came to spend a weekend with us here in Vermont and my girls were in heaven to actually spend time with two Ragtime cast members (who all these years later, just visited up here with us in VT again).</p>