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My first concert was 'Nsync.
It's always good to play New York. The Apollo is a great gig. I loved that.
It doesn't seem like the season really gets under way until you have your home opener
After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment
Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It's been a great run.
In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.
'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.
This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.
The only thing that matters is the theater!
Theater is all about the rehearsal process. In fact, I think a lot of times opening night there's a mixed sadness because you're finished with a lot of people's favorite part of the process, which is finding the character and discovering it, and then you get to live it.
it was the night when people got paid and didn't have to work the next day, and so by tradition went out to get drunk and into fights. Then
Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
Live tonight, cuz you can't take it with ya.
I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.
Tonight, baby, this is home.
Guy Fawkes Night,
We're taking back the night
Shit, you name it, they're performing. The D-Bags, Bending Cupid, the Mighty Storm, Black Falcon, and my fav band
My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.
We was sneakin' in and it was general admission,
Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it.
I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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My first show was 'No Exit.' You couldn't find a more pretentious beginning, but it also instilled some sense of quality.
Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'
They were like really loud librarians. And as the audience, you better shut the hell up because you're in the library of rock right now. When
the morning after Haley's party and
For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.
They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.
I was an opening act for 10 years.
Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.
New Year's was insane! It was the best show I've ever played for New Year's.
I remember walking onstage in the first performance, and something hit me like a brick wall, and I just knew at that moment that this is something I had to do for the rest of my life, and I've never looked back.
It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.
Birth of a Nation
The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
showtime! 6-0-0 the clock said - in my face, first thing
I was getting to perform with an actor with whom I had never interacted before
My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
The fight they had outside the Roseland Theater in front of a bunch of punks and hipsters.
The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.
Our very first gig in Melbourne was a confrontation.
It's a very special venue and a very special occasion.
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
If tonight wasn't going to be the night - one week after my eighteenth birthday, with a limo to ourselves and no curfew - when was?
Georgia Dome was a pretty big eye opener that I had something kind of going in the right direction. It seemed like a movement, and I was greatly appreciative for the chants and the signs.
I can't wait for the crowd, the noise, the energy in the building. I can't wait to take that all away from them.
It starts at midnight.
I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
I love opening night, and I love doing plays. But one of my favorite parts about doing a play or working on a new play is rehearsal.
before it ever opened. It was
[On the premiere of a dull show:] I've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella.
There's nothing like doing a show at home. When you do a show in Chicago, there's just a certain love that you don't feel anywhere else; it's like home base.
Friday the 13th ... I'mma play Jason!
It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A.
Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'
There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.
When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.
Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!
I am having the time of my life and can't wait to perform live for all of my fans.
Congratulations to whoever is finally booking music we love. It's going to get us out of the house after dark!
We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play
Are the Holy Rollers playing at the fair?" "This lame scene? Nah." He kicked the ground. "They wouldn't book you?" "They said we sucked. But people thought Led Zeppelin sucked, too.
And that first screening was overwhelming. You were there. People applauded when the title card comes in; there's a big "gasp moment" partway through the film. It couldn't have gone better, and it was very surreal.
My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.
The secret of staying fresh in a show is to remember that the audience you're playing for that night has never seen it before.
It's a really special night for our fans. It's vindication.
It's on tonight.
I think one of the greatest gigs I played, and we've had many, but to play the opening ceremony at - at the Olympic games in Athens 2004 was pretty special, you know? Because it's such a big deal for the whole world. And the whole world's watching. So that was definitely one of the special ones.
Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year ... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering ... for me ... And I loved it.
Theater dates very quickly.
The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.
Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that.
An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers - I'm a Clipper fan - it's to be seen as much as seeing the game.
You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.
After the week at the Fillmore we flew down to L.A. to hang out and pick up whatever gigs we could. We did a gig in Santa Barbara on July 1st and then the next night we opened for Sam & Dave at the Whisky ...
Most of my fans are young; they pay for their own tickets and work really hard to be able to come, and so I want to give all of them the best show.
It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.
We usually surprised everyone, and still do, as we keep the craziness onstage.
You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.
invasion by night
I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.'
I'm going to the main event of Wrestlemania! Where're you going?
You have to open up on stage.
Progressive rock was happening.
I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.
It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.
My dad took me to my first movie.
I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.
The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.
The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
1939 New York World's Fair,
Seeing you tonight? I was fucking surprised.
Once upon a time and long ago, in fact so long ago that I couldn't have been there, and I wasn't there, but I'll tell you anyways: once upon a time and long ago ...
We have had some great shows this summer, the Jammin Against the Darkness event was pretty incredible and it was good to see everyone at the festivals. Today we head to South Dakota for the start of the tour with Falling Up, The Wedding and Mainstay.
The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.
My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.
I am getting nostalgic about this night and it hasn't even finished yet.
It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.
One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.