2009: Shows and Movies

My friend Schuyler (who a lot of people hate because he told me the truth about lesbians), saw 105 shows last year. This was down from 127 the previous year. After he told me, I was inspired to learn the number of shows I saw in 2009. It turns out it was 27. This is up from 15 in 2008 and only 4 in 2007. I've taken the liberty of fitting Schuyler and my data in the accompanying graph, to determine when I will surpass him in number of shows seen. From my calculations, it looks like I will temporarily pass him in 2011 only to permanately take the lead in 2014.

So what did I see? Below is the color coded list. I've placed the shows in order from best to worst as well as generally categorized them as boring(brown), incomprehensible (grey), mildly entertaining (green), very good (blue) and euphoria inducing (purple). Beneath the theater list, as an added bonus, is the corresponding movie list for 2009. These are only the movies I saw in theaters, but that's mostly where I watch movies anyways.

Needless to say, if you see a show or movie that I went to see with you and wonder why I put it so far down on the list, it was probably because your poor company ruined the experience for me. :)




Theater:
1.) Next Fall (which is coming to Broadway this Spring)
2.) Circle Mirror Transformation
3.) Billy Elliot
4.) Hurricane
5.) Next to Normal
6.) Hair
7.) West Side Story
8.) Wicked
9.) The Norman Conquests: Living Together
10.) The Norman Conquests: Table Manners
11.) Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them
12.) Ragtime
13.) Penny Pennyworth
14.) The Late Christopher Bean
15.) Coraline
16.) Chicago
17.) The Lion King
18.) Loaded
19.) Idiot Savant
20.) Newsical the Musical
21.) Fantasy Football: The Musical
22.) Blithe Spirit
23.) Exit the King
24.) After Miss Julie
25.) This
26.) The Retributionists
27.) The Philanthropist

Movies:
1.) Slumdog Millionaire
2.) Where the Wild Things Are
3.) In the Loop
4.) Dare
5.) Inglourious Basterds
6.) District 9
7.) The Red Shoes
8.) Treeless Mountain
9.) Still Walking
10.) Gomorrah
11.) Waltz With Bashir
12.) Avatar
13.) Star Trek
14.) The Class
15.) Milk
16.) The Headless Woman