I was the butt of all jokes in my college theater department for my first theater crush, but there we go. While I do remember going to plays, performing, and being a toddler dictator director, when I was younger, my clearest, most awe-inspired memory was watching Cats. The recording, not even live. I fell in love with the costumes, and the dancing, and the lights, and the set. This was definitely my first tech crush.
I didn't really speak English then - I watched it when I was abroad in England to immersion-learn English right before moving to the US. So Cats, with its simple plot that always gets made fun of, was easy to follow for me. I remember trying to watch James and the Giant Peach in England and I definitely couldn't understand it.
I got to watch Cats live twice after that, once in Madrid (in Spanish!) and once in DC.