[2] First Date began previews on July 9, 2013, at the Longacre Theatre, New York City, and its official opening night was August 8, 2013.

[3] The show evolved from a book by Austin Winsberg, with music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner,[4] inspired largely by personal experiences.

[7] In May 2013, Zachary Levi and Krysta Rodriguez were announced as the show's leads playing roles of Aaron and Casey.

[8] The role of Aaron was played by Eric Ankrim for the July 16–21 preview dates due to a Comic-Con commitment for Levi.

[11] The show, titled Cita a Ciegas, opened in Buenos Aires on May 10, 2016, in the Teatro Maipo on the Avenida Corrientes.

Translation and adaptation of the script by Marcelo Kotliar, Lucía Mundstock and Sebastián Prada; musical arrangements by Tomás Mayer Wolf and Mariano Cantarini; musical directors: Mariano Cantarini, Lucas Crawley and Nicolás Roldán.

Daniel Cosgrove, Nicole Melloy, Danielle O'Malley, Adam Porter and Stephen Valeri made up the Ensemble.

The band was made up of Stephanie Lewendon-Lowe on piano, Timothy Forrester on reeds (piccolo, flute, clarinet, alto saxophone), Caleb Garfinkel on guitar, Anthony Chircop on bass (electric and double bass) and Campbell Philips on drum kit.

It was announced in December 2018 that First Date would be included in a Musical theatre festival at The Other Palace in London.

Aaron and Casey begin to bond over friends from summer camp and high school after discovering their hometowns are near each other.

Next, Aaron imagines the son he could potentially have with Casey confronting him about which religion to choose and how he wishes he wasn't born ("The Girl For You").

Relieved, he makes a joke about Casey's views on spirituality (she believes in the power of meditation), but it backfires when he accidentally insults her.

Aaron mentions how good her exhibit looked which leads Casey to conclude that he googled her before the date.

She immediately does the same thing to him, and the two of them bond over embarrassing stuff on the internet (I.E. Aaron played Dolly in his high school production of Hello Dolly) ("The World Wide Web is Forever" or "Total Loser").Casey is hungry so she asks Aaron to leave the bar and eat dinner with her.

It is then revealed that her upbringing greatly influenced how she views relationships, having grown up with a mentally unstable mother and a father who left them and started a new family.

Lauren, on the other hand, met her future husband in college at 24, and is happily married, confusing Casey's view of relationships even more ("Safer").

The waiter who seated them notices that they are the only ones not having a good time, so he performs a musical number that he wrote himself as the other two couples slow dance together.

Their food finally arrives and Aaron, with what little hope he has left that things will end well, begs her to have just this one meal with him.

Casey agrees, but decides she wants to set Aaron up with one of her friends to make up for their bad date.

Reggie is now convinced that Aaron killed her or kidnapped her because she hasn't picked up her phone, so he declares that he's coming to rescue her ("Bailout #3").

Casey decides to make Aaron try an exercise where he imagines Allison is standing right in front of him, and he has to break up with her.