Personal Narrative: My First Broadway Musical

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Every theatre nerd knows how important the first Broadway musical you see is. For many of us – especially the younger ones – it is the only one we have seen. No matter which one you watch, it’s incredible: the theater, the stage, even without the performers, the feeling of watching a musical on Broadway is exhilarating (prep). My threshold musical is Kinky Boots – and let me say, it was a great one to be my first. The best part is that it was completely unplanned. Over the summer, my family went on an eight-day trip to New York and Rhode Island (I have cousins in the latter) (prep). I was actually questioning the trip before we left, fearing I would end up regretting it and wish I had stayed home (prep). Then, on August 8th, we were in the car and driving up, just after orientation (prep). Once we reached it, I hated New York itself – there were way too many people, and far too many of them were trying to sell me something. And every day, I would get very overloaded from all the walking and the people. But one thing that I loved was seeing all the signs for musicals. Even before Kinky Boots, I had some basic knowledge of musicals, and knew which ones I liked. On August 9th, the first full day we were in New York, I started to ask my parents if we could see a musical, and we bought tickets that …show more content…

Of course, we did not really trust them, but they were holding clipboards with lists of the currently showing musicals, and we got a picture of one. Later, we stopped at a Starbucks and I read a review of Anastasia, because I loved the animated movie and was considering the musical. Eventually, I narrowed my choices down to three, and my parents were both more interested in Kinky Boots than the others (my dad knew the movie and my mom liked the songs I had shown her). We checked ticketmaster.com for seat availability, and then walked to the theater and bought them

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