What great performances/events would you like to have been present for?
Given what people said in its wake, Talullah Bankhead in "The Little Foxes" sounds like an amazing night out.
I would have liked a chance to see the Loie Fuller perform, given that the films of her dancing that survive are so magical.
Going back in time, Sarah Siddons on stage would be fascinating to see, particularly given her reputation for Lady Macbeth.
Niccolò Paganini in concert anywhere any time during his life.
The grand opening of Carnegie Hall.
Not a live performance, but the opening nights for "All About Eve", "Gone With the Wind" and "To Have and Have Not" must have been legendary.
A huge step down from all of the above, but Truman Capote's Black & White Ball was a classic moment of an era.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | February 20, 2020 6:36 PM
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There are so many. Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie. Sarah Bernhardt in La Dame aux Camellias. Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall and Julie Andrews in My Fair Lady. Ethel Merman in Gypsy and Maria Callas in La Traviata. I could go on and on. Time travel would be wonderful!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 19, 2020 6:50 AM
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Helen Lawson in "Clytie Get Your Axe" (the Broadway musical version of Aeschylus's "Agamemnon").
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 19, 2020 7:06 AM
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Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 19, 2020 7:37 AM
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Tom Petty at The Hollywood Bowl (his last show)
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 19, 2020 11:45 AM
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Attending one of Rock Hudson's parties would have been fabulous.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 19, 2020 11:48 AM
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Astrid Varnay as Brunnhilde or Ortrud in Bayreuth in the 50´s and 60´s.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 19, 2020 11:58 AM
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Julia Roberts in Three Days of Rain.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 19, 2020 12:04 PM
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With Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge, watching Jane Avril and La Gouloue dance, circa 1891.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 19, 2020 12:33 PM
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The debut performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with Ludwig Van himself conducting.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 19, 2020 10:18 PM
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I'd like to have seen Maria Callas' entire 1954-1955 season at La Scala
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 20, 2020 6:12 AM
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The opening and closing night of Moose Murders.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 20, 2020 6:19 AM
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I would say Bruno Walter's 1938 Berlin Philharmonic performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 9. But would I have been able to get out of Germany again immediately afterwards?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 20, 2020 6:23 AM
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The Olympics during the period of antiquity. Although ordering lunch would pose a problem.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 20, 2020 2:17 PM
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The 1928 premiere of Ravel's Boléro at the Paris Opéra . It was staged as a ballet.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | February 20, 2020 5:37 PM
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Noel Coward in Las Vegas 1955.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | February 20, 2020 6:25 PM
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