Not an entertainment event, but related to one:
November, 1965. I’d drive a half-hour north from my (current) house and have dinner at the restaurant that Alice owned. (“Alice’s Restaurant” is not the name of the restaurant. That’s just the name of the song,)
Nirvana at Reading festival 1992. I didn’t go to the Reading festival in 1992, but I was only probably half-mile or so away tucked up in bed.
Weird definition of “entertainment event.”
For the purposes of this thread, I’m declaring the World’s Columbian Exposition to be an entertainment event. Also the Century of Progress Exposition.
I’ve heard that the opening day of Disneyland was kind of a mess, with a lot of the attractions not in working order yet, but I’d still like to witness it in person.
When you go to Disneyland, take a look at the kids selling programs. According to his biography, one of those kids was Steve Martin.
I’d take a VCR back with me and record the lost Doctor Who episodes, then when I get back home make a lot of money off of them.
There’s an old family home movie (“Disneyland Dream”) on the archive.org site where you get a very brief glimpse of him.
The Bonzo Dog Band in their prime.
The Ziegfeld Follies, when Bert Williams, W.C. Fields, and Fanny Brice were headliners.
I’d love to see Henry V at the Globe Theater.
Who doesn’t love a good parade?
This but the BBC might have you taken care of.
I’d like to see Joy Division perform before Curtis died. Any show of The Smiths. All of them. The Time-travellers’s wife was excretable yet the guy had the right idea. Go see The Smiths.
For The Beatles I’ve given this much thought over the years. Hamburg. The screaming girls would ruin the other shows.
Travel on the Festival Express, going to all the shows.
A JB’s concert.
That was my first thought - April 14, 1865. I would make it a point to be near the door to the Presidential box, and stop a certain Confederate-sympathizer actor before he did any mischief.
Shakespeare had two lost works that I’d love to covertly record. From Wiki:
*Love’s Labour’s Won – a late sixteenth-century writer, Francis Meres, and a bookseller’s list both list this title among Shakespeare’s recent works, but no play of this title has survived. It may have become lost, or it may represent an alternative title of one of the plays listed above, such as Much Ado About Nothing or All’s Well That Ends Well.
Cardenio – the original of a late play by Shakespeare and Fletcher, referred to in several documents, has not survived. It is believed to have re-worked a tale in Cervantes’ Don Quixote. In 1727, Lewis Theobald produced a play he called Double Falsehood, which he claimed to have adapted from three manuscripts of a lost play by Shakespeare that he did not name. Double Falsehood does re-work the Cardenio story, and modern scholarship generally agrees that Double Falsehood includes fragments of Shakespeare’s lost play.*