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Here is a summary of all the live performances I’ve seen since 2014.

I love going to live performances such as plays, musicals, operas, and concerts. In 2024, inspired by a friend of mine, I consulted my stack of programs and Playbills at home and made a list of all the shows I had seen since 2014.¹ As any good statistician would do with such a rich dataset, I did some exploratory data analysis and these are the results.

The most recent performance I attended was on March 08, 2025 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, PA. This page was last updated March 12, 2025.

Performances attended (2014-Now)

By City

By Year

Recent memorable performances

1. Sept 21, 2024. Oh, Mary! is an utter delight from the pre-show music (disco Ethel Merman! Liza’s disco “Losing My Mind”!) straight through from the first scene to the last. Cole Escola knows what we want and they give it to us ten times over. I laughed! Out loud! Many times! The final sequence is incredible and so fun.

2. Sept 20, 2024. Anthony Roth Costanzo in The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart, heavily abridged and rearranged) gives the most mindboggling performance I have ever seen. The absolutely bonkers Act II finale in which he records himself and loops them live to build up the successive layers of vocals may be the single most exhilarating scene I have ever seen live. But after “intermission,” the performance gives up the momentum it was riding in the first half to compromise on explaining the plot (recap, Beaumarchais scene, spoken Figaro backstory) and features some decisions that I didn’t love (the laryngoscope in “Dove sono”).

3. June 15, 2024. While I went to the concert to see my beloved Four Last Songs (R. Strauss) with soloist Christine Goerke, I ended up being blown away by Pines of Rome (Respighi), from the transparent beauty of the clarinet solo, piano, and birdsong to the grandeur of the first and last movements. I was delighted to see Jonathon Heyward conduct the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra after hearing so much about him, and while I’m not very good yet at picking apart a conductor’s style, I appreciated that he spoke to us in between each piece.

All works seen

Cost

I have exact or approximate ticket prices for 82 out of the 88 performances I have attended (93%), so the following statistics were calculated using only the ticket prices I do have. 14 (17%) of the events I attended were free. The median ticket price of performances I have attended is $10.75 and the mean is $25.62.

Histogram

Performances I’ll be attending soon (2025 - 2026)

Footnotes

1. As such, this data does not account for shows I attended before 2024 that did not provide a program (though I don’t recall going to any that did not hand out a program!)