Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
#1Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Posted: 11/9/15 at 8:19pm
Ok I got into a debate about how many Hip Hop Musicals been produced. I could only think of three. The three that come to my mind are:
- Hamilton (obviously)
- In the Heights
- Bring it On.
All of which Lin-Manuel Miranda was a part of. Am I missing any others? I am really struggling coming up with other names.
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TerrenceIsTheMann
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/15
#2Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Posted: 11/9/15 at 8:24pm
You lost that debate. Holler if ya hear me.
Updated On: 11/9/15 at 08:24 PM#3Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Posted: 11/9/15 at 8:31pm
TerrenceIsTheMann said: "You lost that debate. Holler if ya hear me.
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You got me on that one. Seriously, are there any others?
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FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#4Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Posted: 11/9/15 at 8:34pm
Bring in The Noise and Also Please Bring in What the Kids Today Call The Funk.
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ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#7Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Posted: 11/10/15 at 4:09am
Would the off-Broadway Venice count?
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"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
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#8Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Posted: 11/10/15 at 6:07am
A few other musicals have included rap or hip/hop numbers, but not as the driving force of the score. "Enterprise" from Runaways comes to mind. I think it might just be those four for hip hop musicals.
#9Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Posted: 11/10/15 at 8:17am
I know Fela Kuti didn't label his music as hip-hop, and I don't think it technically is, but it obviously influenced some of hip-hop. I think you can argue that Fela! could play as a possible origins story for the genre.
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#10Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Posted: 11/10/15 at 11:35am
So by that count, we've got about 9 shows involving hip-hop and/or current or gestational elements thereof.
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#11Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Posted: 11/10/15 at 1:38pm
g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "So by that count, we've got about 9 shows involving hip-hop and/or current or gestational elements thereof.
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Seems like it. I suspect Hamilton has opened the door to many more. It is astonishing how big it is becoming. I am interested in seeing if hip hop will bring a younger generation to Broadway, or will it remain as the older crowd, since they can only afford it.
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#12Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Posted: 11/10/15 at 1:50pm
To boil the success of Hamilton down to people wanting to see hip hop seems to be pretty reductive as a thesis as well as a lack of insight into what all is happening onstage at the Richard Rodgers Theater.
#13Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Posted: 11/10/15 at 1:59pm
^ Agree there. Also, past shows with the same genre of music failed, so I wouldn't put too much on the music of Hamilton to draw a younger audience.
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#14Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Posted: 11/10/15 at 2:17pm
The idea that these styles rather arbitrarily lumped into the labels "rap" and "hip hop," both of which have roots going back to the 1920's (if not earlier), are somehow inherently "young" and will bring "young" audiences to Broadway, is - well, I'm too worn out now to continue the thought.
ggersten
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#15Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Posted: 11/10/15 at 2:22pm
Of course, there are hip-hop musicals out there which have not been produced on Broadway.
The Q Brothers out of Chicago have done hip-hop/rap versions of Shakespeare plays including
The Bombitty of Errors
Funk it up about Nothing
Othello-the Remix (a truly amazing work)
Two Gents
As well as A Q Brothers' Christmas Carol
#16Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Posted: 11/10/15 at 3:40pm
This doesn't necessarily qualify as a "hip-hop musical" but GHOST has a rap part with the Subway Ghost and Sam. At least it shows I guess the short-term influence of how rap can be used effectively in a show; it's very fitting. Legally Blonde also had a small rap section in 'Positive.'
