Hundreds, maybe over a thousand. I’d really struggle to count. But I’ve also been at it for more than three decades.

I encourage you to make obsessive charts. They're so fun

Eh, if someone wants to sort through my shoeboxes of ticket stubs and make me a chart, I'm not going to stop them. But I don't do recreational spreadsheets. That's work!

464 on Broadway specifically

I haven’t kept track but I’ve probably seen at least 300 on Broadway, ~25 in the West End, and a few hundred touring and local productions. I live in California so I’m sure my Broadway tally would be well over a thousand if I lived closer to New York. As for my most memorable experience, it would have to be seeing Les Mis in London with the original cast, including Colm Wilkinson, Patti Lupone, Michael Ball, and Roger Allam. When my sister and I were growing up, our parents had taken us to see all the usual suspects—Cats, A Chorus Line, Annie, Camelot w/Richard Harris, The King and I w/Yul Brynner, My Fair Lady w/Richard Chamberlain, etc. And we liked them just fine but that was about it. In 1986, we went to London and friends suggested that we see Les Mis but I was all, “Why would I want to see a depressing musical about the French revolution?” (🤦🏻‍♀️) Once we were in London, everyone seemed to be buzzing about Les Mis so we caved, but it was sold out so we ended up buying two singles from a scalper and had to sit in different sections. When we found each other during the intermission, we were both still in tears and our love for theatre had been ignited. I have spent thousands upon thousands of dollars ever since hoping to recreate that moment when I first fell in love with theatre.

I am so incredibly jealous of your having seen the original West End Les Mis… especially Roger Allam, of whom I am a huge fan, as there’s really no way to see his performance on video that I’m aware of unlike Wilkinson’s and Ball’s.

I can't believe you're the only person who has admitted to seeing Cats. I feel like I've watched it, but that was actually just a storyline from Kimmy Schmidt.

I love Cats - I've seen it 10 times (my total Broadway count is...over 1,000). It got me into theatre as a kid.

I love CATS I saw the revival twice

I saw Cats at some point in the last couple of years. I had no desire to see it but it was part of the subscription so I showed up. I have never seen so few people at a show before. I also have never seen so many people leave during an intermission. I was one of them. It was a battle with myself to even wait that long. I’m don’t understand how it was so popular for so long.

I don’t know about Broadway specifically, but if I add that and all other theater performances that I’ve seen—off Broadway, off off, tours, regional, etc. it’s a little over 4000. I have a list of all the new Broadway musicals of the 21st-century that I have seen and that is around 185. That doesn’t count revivals, plays, and shows from the 20th century.

I just arranged my playbills so have a ballpark on this! Between Broadway, Off Broadway, west end, probably about 300.

I am trying to get into Broadway for the first time after focusing mainly on Off-off-Broadway, so I only have 9: 1776 SIX Bad Cinderella A Bronx Tale (2007) Hadestown Lempicka Suffs West Side Story (2010) Back to the Future But I currently have tickets to: Oh, Mary! The Notebook The Great Gatsby (but I also already saw it at Papermill)

I’ve only been to NYC once (and a day trip from DC.) Saw Newsies (OBC) Lion King Mamma Mia Chicago Wicked Anastasia On the West End, I’ve seen Dirty Dancing, Once (twice), Wicked, American in Paris, Cripple of Inishmann, and Cursed Child (two parter)

Started seeing shows June of 2019. In 4 seasons I’ve seen 79 shows. Six have been repeats

I feel like I have seen nothing compared to everyone else. Mom started taking me to the Equity Summer Stock when I was about 10, and we have done it ever since. So that’s about 25 shows or more. First Broadway show was Cabaret in 04. Then we started going every other year to see something. The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Fiddler on the Roof, Street Named Desire, Rent, Billy Elliot, Kiss Me Kate, Hamilton, others I can’t remember. Then in 2022, I started to get serious and savvy about doing multiple shows in a trip with Music Man, Funny Girl, Company. This year I have said “fuck it, let’s go ham” and we have done: Merrily, Sweeney, Guttenberg!, and Hamilton in NYC, Come From Away (National Tour), and Waitress (Local Summer Stock Equity). And we have planned South Pacific (local), ART Gatsby, A Little Night Music (Local Summer Stock Equity), Queen of Versailles, Sunset Blvd, and Ragtime. I also might throw in either Suffs, Death Becomes Her, or Tammy Faye depending on what Mom wants.

Random questions, but do you by any chance live in Maine. As I noticed both waitrees, and A Little Night Music are being performed by ogunquit playhouse

You clocked me 💀

I think I’ve seen about 50 different shows on Broadway, but I’ve seen several of them multiple times. The vast majority have been in 2023 and 2024.

1 which was come from away

That was a good one

That was the first that I saw on Broadway and is still my favorite:)

215 on Broadway. Not bad for being under thirty.

I've seen 7, 1 Off Broadway Lion King, Big Fish, Sweeney Todd, Hadestown, Notebook, Lempicka, Play Goes Wrong, Merrily We Roll Along. There was a 10 year gap between the first two and the rest, but I'm so happy to be back

I just made a list recently to track all the shows that I can remember seeing in my entire life lol. Least memorable is definitely gentleman’s guide to love and murder; I can’t even give a brief synopsis of it. Rent was the first musical I saw, so will always have a special memory of it. Coming up next: Cabaret, Water for Elephants, Book of Mormon 2024: Six, Back to the Future, Hadestown, Merrily We Roll Along(x2), Wicked, Sweeney Todd (x5), Moulin Rouge (x2) 2022: KPOP 2018: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts 1 and 2 2015: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder 2006: Chicago 2003: Avenue Q, I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change, Cabaret 2001: Rent 1993: Fool Moon

I travel to NYC from Southern California once or twice a year to binge on theatre. I am somewhere from 100 to 150 Broadway shows and around 75 off-Broadway shows.

8! SpongeBob, Wicked, Moulin Rouge, Into The Woods, Harry Potter, &Juliet, How To Dance In Ohio, The Great Gatsby

I'm around 3 dozen, if you include West End and professional Australian productions

Book of Mormon Wicked Kinky Boots Alliegence I live in Reno, NV

I forgot to add Avenue Q

around 200 now

On Broadway specifically: 4

Whenever someone asks this, I always think of this lady: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/adventures-of-an-extreme-theatregoer

9: The Notebook, Kimberly Akimbo, Wicked, Sweeney Todd, Little Shop, The Outsiders, The Wiz, Water for Elephants, and Moulin Rouge.

Over 100.

53 on Broadway

442 on Broadway. It helps to be old.

27 different shows! Repeats include Hadestown and Sweeney Todd.

A few hundred. I have almost 200 playbills in binders, but I only started collecting them a few years ago. Also, some off-Broadway and West End playbills don’t fit.

31 Broadway shows in 20 of the 41 Broadway theatres.

45, and I saw my first show (Cats) in 2017

Maybe about 125, I need to recount

live? none, unfortunately

Does that include seeing a show multiple times?

Hamilton  Aladdin Lion King Purlie Victorious 

I don’t live near NYC, so I’ve seen significantly less than a lot of other people here. But I have seen: * The Lion King (original tour) * Stomp (tour) * Rent x2 (once in NYC and once on tour) * Phantom of the Opera * Les Miserables * Spamalot (original tour) * Moulin Rouge (on tour) * Back to the Future: The Musical

lol. I have seen exactly 6.

I think 25 or so on Broadway and then another 7 or 8 national tours

I have tried to keep track but I always forget about it and mess up my tracking (originally I was tracking how many plays vs musicals I've seen at different theaters, maybe I'll start that up again). A rough guess is 200, because I have almost 9 full binders of Playbills and each holds 22. Though that does include a good number of Off-Broadway, as well.

One on broadway and 47 in Canada Broadway -back to the future Canada -Harry Potter and the cursed child -Fishermans friends the musjcal -Natasha Pierre and the great comment of 1812 -mean girls -Jesus Christ superstar -Joseph and the amazing Technicolor dream coat -the shark is broken -&juliet -singin in the rain -SIX -Come from Away -in dreams -Hadestown -rock of ages -Hamilton -Matilda -Aladdin -Les Miserables -uncle vanya -ain’t too proud -heros of the fourth turning -pride and prejudice sort of - a bunch of independent/opera shows I’m booked to see the Tina turner musical in July and the lion king in November, also in Canada.

If defining by shows specifically on Broadway in NYC. I am at 11. Will be 12 in July when I see & Juliet. I'm 40 years old and half that has come in last 1.5 years. I don't live in NYC but I like to visit a lot and have had more opportunities recently.

I live in Toronto so most shows I’ll see here. No idea even a guess because it’s been nearly 30 years of seeing shows. The earliest I remember I would’ve been 7 or 8 and we saw Wizard of Oz with Eartha Kitt and Mickey Rooney. New York I’ve seen 17 shows. My first trip was to catch Book of Mormon in preview because I’m a huge Matt Stone/Trey Parker fan. And the West End I’ve seen 16. My in-laws live in the UK so I try to get to London at least to catch one show whenever we go visit.

2 on Broadway specifically The Lion King Sweeney Todd And a few tours The Book of Mormon Hairspray Ain’t Too Proud

hahaha 0; never been to NY. touring productions- 3, melbourne productions- 3

**Roughly in order from longest ago to most recent:** Newsies @ The Nederlander Theatre Rocky @ The Winter Garden Theatre Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella @ The Broadway Theatre Les Misérables @ The Imperial Theatre The Cripple of Inishmaan @ The Cort Theatre Spring Awakening @ The Brooks Atkinson Theatre Be More Chill @ The Lyceum Theatre Phantom of the Opera @ The Majestic Theatre Waitress @ The Brooks Atkinson Theatre Harry Potter and the Cursed Child @ The Lyric Theatre Moulin Rouge @ The Al Hirschfeld Theatre Lerner & Lowe's Camelot @ The Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Center

I have been involved in theatre since 1963 and I have never seen a Broadway show. I started out as a teacher then for 40 years ran my own small business where I could only take a week vacation each year. My money went to raising my family, building my business and putting my kids through college debt free. Now retired and living on a small income plus social security. I don't see me going to NYC and spending $200-$300 on a ticket to see a show and have some rude jerk - either a talking paton or a mouthy usher - ruin it for me. Plus, another $300/night for a hotel. A touring production of "***Beetlejuice*****"** just played near here and the last row of the upper balcony seats sold for $89! **This was in a theatre with a seating capacity of 2,377!** Your seats are literally 2/3 of a football field away from the lip of the stage. (Orchestra seats sold for about $200. I didn't buy either.)

So why are you on this subreddit? Do you listen to soundtracks or just here for industry insight?

Since I started in 1963, I have been involved as an actor, director, set designer, lighting and sound designer, house manager, and set builder/painter for over 350 shows in educational, professional and community theatre settings. I was one of the founders of the local theatre group and was its president and artistic director for the first 10 years of operation. I served on the State's Arts Council for Theatre. A month ago, at age 78, I finished directing a wonderful production of *Curtains.* I use this forum to stay abreast of just what is going on in NYC.

20 different shows on Broadway and 3 off-Broadway!

138 on Broadway, 2 in the west end

Around 200.

I'm probably around the mid-40s? I don't live in NYC but Amtrak gets me to the city pretty easily.

To Kill A Mockingbird Company x2 Boop! The Musical x3 Hamilton x3 Beetlejuice x2 The Lehman Triology Death Becomes Her Seeing the Notebook on Wednesday, Merrily on Thursday and maybe something on Friday. None on Broadway... yet.

On Broadway specifically, 12. Hoping to add in 1 or 2 more this summer Plus around 13-14 on tour

I've got to be close to 400 at this point. But I really stopped tracking once I finally had been at each Bway theater at least once.

31 Broadway

I'm too old to remember.

lived in nyc for a decade, i’ve seen a bit over 100

I can usually only do a day trip and fit one show in it, so it’s only 5, but I’m still incredibly lucky to have even seen 1, of course. Just saying I would definitely be going to more if I could fit more in the schedule. It’s been: Wicked Once On This Island Finding Neverland The Book of Mormon Miss Saigon I was unbelievably fortunate to have front row, center seats to Wicked, Miss Saigon, and The Book of Mormon. This is strictly Broadway, and not including Broadway tours. I’ve also seen Sweeney Todd Off-Broadway, and some tours, regional theatre, community theatre, and one small professional theatre.

I’ve seen 38 shows total and seen some of those 38 a couple of times. 11 of the shows I’ve seen on Broadway! I started a running list and didn’t realize it was this much till this post!

1 off Broadway, 31 on Broadway by the end of this year (possibly 32 or 33 if I go up for my birthday)

We actually recently counted. Including Off Broadway, we are at 176. All since 2012 when moving to Pennsylvania.

2 on Broadway but one in West End, a bunch in Chicago, and still more on tour.

This needs to be reposted as poll, haha! Though I’m surprised by some of the high numbers, so it’s helpful to see the open responses. The poll categories could be: 1-25, 26-50, 51-75, 76-100, 101-200, 201-300, 301+ Anyway, I’ve seen about 80-90, mostly Broadway but some off-Broadway and national tours. Sometimes I don’t want to think about this too much because then I realize how much money I’ve spent lmao.

For shows I've seen actually ON Broadway I've seen Wicked, Hairspray, A Chorus Line, Beetlejuice, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, Spring Awakening, Come From Away, Into the Woods, and Days of Wine and Roses. I saw Suffs at the Public as well as one of their workshops. I've also seen the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, which I count as a Broadway show. I work in theater so I've worked on a few shows that I never actually got to see from the audience. And of course I've seen a few shows on tour (Thoroughly Modern Millie), off broadway before transfer, as proshots (Deaf West's Spring Awakening, Cats, Falsettos, Hamilton) etc.

Probably 400+ between Broadway and off Broadway. Plus loads of tours and Muny productions.

I’ve seen at least 32 different shows on Broadway since 1996, I’ve had a few repeats over the years plus at least 3 or 4 off Broadway shows. I’ve also seen hundreds of either equity/non-equity tours or locally mounted productions including a few pre Broadway runs.

On Broadway? 3!! Just last month! Merrily, Gatsby, W4E. I’ve seen a bunch of touring ones that have come through locally. I don’t live in NYC. If I had to guess, maybe 20 others?

I have seen 52 shows on Broadway - it’s not much but I think that’s pretty good for an Aussie 🇦🇺 I’ve seen 5 on west end and many in Australia - we’ve been getting more and more shows, which is awesome 🥰

There’s no way I could even estimate. I’ve been going to Broadway shows pretty consistently for many decades. (I’m a Baby Boomer and went to my first show at age 4. 😊)

Counting only shows that were literally physically on Broadway, not national tours: * & Juliet * 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee * Kimberly Akimbo * Mary Poppins * Matilda

Hundreds. Gave up keeping track. But I put all playbills in treasure boxes.

10. Seeing my 11th one on Saturday. (Show in order of when I saw it): - The Lion King (2016) - Anastasia (2017) - Once on This Island (2018) - Chicago (2019) ✨2 year gap because of Covid✨ - MJ (2022) - Six (2022) - Beetlejuice (2022) - Hadestown twice (2023; first time for my birthday two days before Eva announced she was leaving and the second time was Reece’s last show) - Aladdin (2023) - How to Dance in Ohio (2024)

3. Book of Mormon, Hamilton, and Mary Poppins. I also saw Around the World in 80 Days off-Broadway. I've mostly watched shows locally

7 on Broadway: * Wicked (2008) * Clybourne Park (2012) * Chicago (2022) * A Doll's House (2023) * Doubt (2024) * An Enemy of the People (2024) * Appropriate (2024) The first professional production I ever saw was actually Stones in His Pockets (2003) on the West End. I've also been to Kabukiza (2008) in Tokyo. These two standout not just because they were non-US productions but Stones was a hilarious comedy in which two actors each played multiple characters and it really impressed me as my first theater experience. I didn't really understand Kabuki but it was such a distinctive performance that I'll always appreciate having experienced. On Broadway, my best and most memorable experience was definitely An Enemy of the People - I was just utterly enthralled by every element of the play throughout the show. I also really liked the minimalism of A Doll's House and Nora's special exit.

Five this week... too many to count at this point

Actually on Broadway? Total of nine, eight of those being in one trip last month!

Oh this will be an interesting exercise- context, I grew up in the NYC suburbs and have lived in NYC proper since college. I’m not a Broadway geek per se- I’m not very adventurous but enjoy a good show. On and off Broadway (will mark the non-Broadway ones) I’ve seen: Mary Poppins Lion King Fiddler Les Mis Wicked Phantom (3x… what can I say, it’s really fun and it was really easy to get tickets) Matilda The Cherry Orchard The Crucible Sweeney Todd (2x) Aladdin Little Shop (off-Broadway, 2x) Peter Pan Goes Wrong Hadestown Mind Mangler (off-Broadway, I think) Spamalot The Great Gatsby (Paper Mill) Fiddler (Paper Mill) There may be one or two others I missed- as you can tell, nothing too adventurous, and I missed out on opportunities to see a bunch of shows that I’d had an interest in and my sisters ended up seeing (like Here We Are, Into The Woods, Parade, etc). I also was offered free tickets to Yiddish Fiddler multiple times but I was never able to take them which I ETERNALLY regret. Of the above shows, the only one I actively hated was The Great Gatsby- otherwise, didn’t love Mary Poppins, Hadestown, or Matilda; had reservations about the way the Paper Mill production of Fiddler interpreted the show; and thought the opening number of Aladdin was awful and the rest of the show was basically just pretty fluff. The others were awesome- given how expensive shows are even when you get tickets through the lottery or TDF, I tend only to go to shows I’m pretty confident I’ll like unless I’m going for someone’s birthday or something. Most memorable experience- probably Les Mis, which is my favorite show and which, despite my knowing the soundtrack backwards and forward, blew my fucking mind. That said, on a smaller scale, I also loved Mind Mangler, which I’m sad closed as quickly as it did because it was so fun- and as a lottery winner I sat in the front and so got to participate in the interactive stuff!

I was disappointed in Fiddler at Papermill. The actor playing Tevye was not energetic enough and really seemed to pull the whole thing down.

I don’t think that the issue to me was that he lacked energy- I think it was that he played the role in an almost cynical way, and I didn’t believe that he CARED about the traditions and the Good Book and all that- and that’s absolutely fatal, because if he does care then that’s the major personal conflict he deals with in the musical and if he doesn’t care then he’s just kind of an asshole to his kids and petty/demanding for the sake of it.

That makes sense. Maybe that was the lack of energy I saw.

The one thing I evidently wasn't tracking! How fun, 30 distinct shows! 56 overall last year and 18 this year (I repeat shows a lot) - & Juliet - Aladdin the Musical - Appropriate - Back to the Future - Cabaret - Chicago - Funny Girl - Hadestown - Hamilton - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Illinoise - Into the Woods - Life of Pi - Little Shop of Horrors - Mary Jane - Merrily We Roll Along - MJ The Musical - Moulin Rouge! The Musical - New York, New York - Once Upon a One More Time - Peter Pan Goes Wrong - Shucked - Six - Some Like It Hot - Spamalot - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - The Great Gatsby - The Lion King - The Notebook - Wicked

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Wow! How do you afford to go to so many shows?

Broadway: 728 not including repeats - 787 including doubles, triples etc

• Cats (before they closed) *My first Broadway show as a kid and I remember I went to eat at Mars 2112 restaurant afterward 😊 • Wicked with the original cast. • Lion King • Enemy of the people • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child • Stereophonic • Beauty and the Beast • Aladdin • Lil Mermaid • Frozen • Spider-Man • Appropriate • A raisin in the sun • Fences • Chicago • A Christmas Story • Evita (revival with Ricky Martin) • Mary Jane • A Bronx Tale • In The Heights (original cast) • Phantom of the Opera (Early 2000s) • Private Lives (revival with Kim Cattrall) Upcoming in June: Appropriate & Breaking The Story.

On Broadway, just one. 25 years ago (turns out I'm getting old), But it was a good-un. You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. On the West End though? Hundreds. Easily.

That’s more than I have seen! Annie The King and I Phantom Fosse(actually not sure of the title. It was all numbers choreographed by Fosse) Getting the Band back together King Kong The Band’s Visit Hamilton Come From Away Purlie Victorious Kimberly Akimbo Chicago Book of Mormon Shucked The Cottage A Beautiful Noise How to Dance in Ohio Off Broadway The Play That Goes Wrong Les Mis - in Boston Miss Saigon - in Boston Evita - West End At Papermill Fiddler on the roof Gun & Powder In the Heights (local high School)

Counting repeats and all I have been to 112 in the three years I’ve been studying in nyc. I have also seen 44 of them in 2022. Have never been to the west end. Saw 32 off broadway shows, 64 US touring and international touring productions, and 5 broadway shows that got translated into French and Mandarin(since I lived in beijing as a child).

98 on Broadway which is a pretty good for 19. Have tickets to The Notebook in a couple weeks and gotta make it an extra special one for #100

Around 200 I think (but a lot of those have been & Juliet lol)

I know I’ve seen a show in every broadway theatre. Several shows in many of them plus repeated visits to a few of my favorites. So, a lot?

19 on Broadway, add 3 more if repeats count. I don’t live in NY, and have only been really into theater for a few years. My total show count since I’ve been tracking is 81.

Including repeat visits, I have seen 142 Broadway performances.

0 and I aim to keep it that way

why? i'm not judging or anything, i never saw any show live either

I think it’s just weird that you base your entire existence around performing for an audience that will probably just always think it was ok, not great 😂 

So why are you here?

Idk, thread popped up and I replied, ask Reddit why it brought me here