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Robot characters on Broadway
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Robot characters on Broadway#1
Posted: 8/11/17 at 10:49am

I know the term, "robot" comes from the 1920 play, R.U.R. or Rossum's Universal Robots, which played on Broadway at the Garrick Theatre in 1922. It was even the Broadway debuts for Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien. 

However, have there been any robot characters of prominence since? 

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Robot characters on Broadway#2
Posted: 8/11/17 at 11:09am

Return to the Forbidden Planet

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Robot characters on Broadway#3
Posted: 8/11/17 at 1:41pm
Nancy Hess in Chicago.
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Posted: 8/11/17 at 2:18pm

The tin man is a cyborg; STARSHIP has a robot character; long-gestating rock opera THE PROTOMEN has a mix of humans, cyborgs and robots as its cast.

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Posted: 8/11/17 at 2:59pm

There's a robot character in Spongebob, isn't there? 

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Posted: 8/11/17 at 3:00pm

^there is, but it's played by a real person who drags a prop along.

But that doesn't matter, because we're all here. And with all of our differences we have one thing in common. We're all gay.
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Posted: 8/11/17 at 3:04pm

Technically speaking, Hal Prince was a robot. 11 hours across in Japan, but it's something. 

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Robot characters on Broadway#8
Posted: 8/11/17 at 3:22pm

@NoName - LOL.  I have to agree!!

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Robot characters on Broadway#9
Posted: 8/11/17 at 3:37pm

Return to the Forbidden Planet

I'm still bitter Broadway hasn't gotten a proper production of this.  I saw the 2001 UK tour and it was GENIUS.  In the US, it's been relegated to awful amateur and school productions that suck all the creativity out of the show.

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Robot characters on Broadway#10
Posted: 8/11/17 at 4:00pm

Nancy Hess in Chicago.

Dead.  This is... genius!  

Robot characters on Broadway

Footnote: she was the Velma Kelly/Roxie Hart standby in the original 1996 Broadway revival cast of CHICAGO.