Favorite Fact Based Musical
Favorite Fact Based Musical
#1Favorite Fact Based Musical
Posted: 9/17/14 at 11:03pm
No matter how fictionalized it is.
Mine would be GREY GARDENS.
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bwayboy22
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/12
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
DigificWriter
Leading Actor Joined: 1/23/12
#3Favorite Fact Based Musical
Posted: 9/17/14 at 11:27pmI really like the scores for Chaplin and Newsies.
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#4Favorite Fact Based Musical
Posted: 9/17/14 at 11:32pm
For me, I think it has to be 1776.
Also up for consideration based on scores: Titanic and Parade
Snarky nomination: Last Five Years
Updated On: 9/17/14 at 11:32 PM
#5Favorite Fact Based Musical
Posted: 9/17/14 at 11:35pmGrey Gardens #1 followed closely by Scottsboro Boys.
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
#6Favorite Fact Based Musical
Posted: 9/17/14 at 11:41pm
Titanic.
Not a huge fan of the proposed revival though. The show is called Titanic! Go big or go home.
#7Favorite Fact Based Musical
Posted: 9/17/14 at 11:41pmBOOK OF MORMON
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#9Favorite Fact Based Musical
Posted: 9/18/14 at 12:06amKINKY BOOOOOOOTS!
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mjohnson2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
#13Favorite Fact Based Musical
Posted: 9/18/14 at 2:48am
gleek, neither of those are fact-based. SWEENEY TODD is based on an urban legend whereas PIPPIN is based on a fictional story about Charlemagne's son.
As for me, I think either BARNUM or THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Anything regarding shows stated by this account is an attempt to convey opinion and not fact.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#15Favorite Fact Based Musical
Posted: 9/18/14 at 11:51am
RAGS and RAGTIME both truck in real events and real characters of the same period, event though their central stories are fictitious.
BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON constantly plays with historical facts and characters (but what a messed up understanding you'd have of history based only on this telling).
But I agree that 1776 stands apart as the one show whose chief aim is to give a relatively accurate slice of history from beginning to end. It's also to my mind one of the all-time greatest books ever written for a musical.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#16Favorite Fact Based Musical
Posted: 9/18/14 at 11:54am
A Chorus Line
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#17Favorite Fact Based Musical
Posted: 9/18/14 at 12:14pmSince GYPSY is a musical "fable," would have to go with "1776." Even if the history books cleaned it up, as per Franklin's prediction.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#18Favorite Fact Based Musical
Posted: 9/18/14 at 12:23pmIMO, Gypsy is closer to the truth than 1776. While both are excellent musicals, 1776 has a lot of fiction to it. The Continental Congress was private and confidential, so what actually went on can only be gleaned from memoirs, some written many years after the actual events. At the time Gypsy opened, there were people still around that knew or came into contact with Rose, including both daughters.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#19Favorite Fact Based Musical
Posted: 9/18/14 at 1:44pmElisabeth, hands down.
"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire
#20Favorite Fact Based Musical
Posted: 9/18/14 at 3:05pm
One more favorite I'm surprised no-one has mentioned:
PACIFIC OVERTURES.
Fictional characters mix with factual ones to tell the astonishing true story of the "opening" up of Japan. Thoroughly illuminating in light of recent attempts to "open" up other closed societies to the blessings of democracy.
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
LucyEth
Stand-by Joined: 8/23/12
#22Favorite Fact Based Musical
Posted: 9/18/14 at 3:55pmGypsy, without a doubt. But the first thing that sprang to mind, to be honest, was Fun Home.
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
