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My first trip to NYC was in Thanksgiving of 2002 we stayed at The Plaza and saw Mamma Mia...that was when i knew what i wanted to do for the rest of my life...

As a New Yorker, born and raised, I have never really understood how people are so amazed with New York. I'm sure if I went to, like, Alabama I would be amazed, though. Any place with no sound for more than thirty seconds would amaze me. xd

My first trip to New York was sometime around 1994 I'm not sure on the exact time. I always judge it by how many years the "Beauty and the Beast" sign says it's been open, cus it was that year and that was the show I saw. I'm saying 1994 cus that was also the year that Damn Yankees was there. It might have been 1993. One of those two for sure.

And as I said above, first show was "Beauty and the Beast." I was like 6 or 7.

I never really can remember being amazed by the city. I think for one thing, I was so young that I wasn't old enough to be amazed by it and two I really don't remember much about the first few times I went to New York. I remember we walked down 5th Avenue and went to FAO Shwartz. And we at a really crappy place for dinner (Which later closed might I add)

Now, I'm so use to going into the city that it's like a second nature. I go in at LEAST 4 times a year. More if there are alot of shows that open that I want to see before they close. When sometimes go with friends that have never been there and I don't understand how it amazes them so much.

As much as I love Broadway, I didn't end up going to NYC and seeing a show until I was 14, back in 1998. It was a class trip, and we saw On the Town. It was ok, but not my first pick. But we got to walk around the city a bit, and the group I was in ate at Ellen's Stardust Diner, home of Forbidden Broadway. But I didn't know about that until April of next year, when we went to see Fosse (another class trip), and my group went to the Virgin Records store. The latest Forbidden Broadway album had just come out (Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act!), and it was playing over the intercom. I instantly fell in love and bought the CD on the spot.
For some reason, I can't remember whether it was before or after seeing Fosse that my grandparents took me to see Annie Get Your Gun. I was big into Bernadette Peters at the time, so of course I leapt at the chance to see her on stage. But it was Mom who had the idea to ask my grandparents to take me for my birthday. I took a million pictures on our trip ^_^
The next year April I was in a theater class again, and we saw Jesus Christ Superstar.
THEN, in the summer of 2001, I orchestrated a trip of my own for my sisters and me to go see The Producers. Luckily, I bought the tickets right before they sold out, and we all had a good time. Even visited the SanRio store.
That was the end of my on-Broadway viewings (although not my trips to NYC) until last December, when by an absolute fluke I got to see Wicked. My younger sister's best friend's older brother was taking them both to see the show, but forgot to ask for the day off of work. So there they were with an extra ticket and two girls in need of supervision, and of course the course ahead was obvious. And so I went, and discovered a Japanese bookstore along the way. And that's all my Broadway experiences so far. Of course, that's not counting the shows I've seen in National tours and smaller productions.

My first visit was March 16 of this year. My journalism class went to a yearbook convention at Columbia, and we stayed in a hotel that was right on Broadway. I used up two rolls of film on the posters and marquees, and we even got to wait at the stage door for a lot of the people so we could get pictures and autographs!
We saw Hairspray, which totally rocked; Chicago, Steele Magnolias, and Fiddler on the Roof. We went to see if they had tickets every day for Wicked, but they were always sold out. We also checked Phantom, but they only day they had tickets was the day we were leaving! I was so sad about that, since I've been in love with that show forever!
I didn't want to leave, lol. I loved everything about the city. The whole time I had One Short Day stuck in my head.

*dreamy sigh* NYC's first on my list of places to go. I've seen big cities all over the world (like noise? try Rome at rush hour sweatdrop ), and live a short drive from San Francisco, but that's first on my list.