What It's Like To Attend a Broadway Show

Ever wonder what a Broadway show is like? Are youlobby to grab a drink and chat with your theater
looking for an evening filled with astonishment andmates. You may get a program book, deciding for
wonderment, grandeur and thrills? Where you enter ayourself that you must have something to look at,
world of mystery and grandeur from the moment youwhen the real world intrudes, to help carry yourself
step into the theatre to find your seat. Gazing aboutback to this world of wonder, remembering how you
you in awe at this world you have just entered, a richfelt. Your life seems forever changed, leaving you
tapestry of color surrounds you, the lighting muted andwanting for more with the loud applause and the final
soft, lending an eerie glow as you are about tocurtain call.
experience all the world upon a stage, with soundsIn cities all over the country, seeing a Broadway show
merrily emanating from the orchestra pit in front ofis pure pleasure for those looking for one of the finer
you, and gigantic and ornate curtains on the stagethings in life, at a cost everyone can afford. From New
rippling with activity unseen behind them.York City to Boston, Chicago to L.A., National tours of
Then you and audience become muted as the curtainsthe Broadway hits Wicked and the Lion King can be
part and you have your first view of the show beforeseen in many cities across the US and Canada.
you. You notice you are holding your breath as youFrom the oldest running show on Broadway, The
drink all the stage in, feeling as if you are a part of thisPhantom of the Opera, to The Color Purple, a movie
world you suddenly find yourself in.made into a Broadway show, your choices are
You immediately begin to empathize with theendless for a night filled with wonder and something
characters you witness on stage, you feel their painyou will never forget, whether you are crying with the
and joy, and you almost become part of their worldactors on stage to laughing so hard there are tears in
indeed. In too soon a time it seems, the actors retreatyour eyes. Going to the theater is an experience that
and you seem as if you can breathe normal for ahas no equivalent. You'll find yourself carried to a world
moment as the lights softly glow again. Now it'sthat you've never been to before, in all its brilliance and
between Acts and you get a chance to saunter to themagnificence.