Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
bwaybabe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/08
#1Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 3:53amAbraham Lincoln, Columbus, or Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand, for me :)
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#2re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 3:59amNo.
bwaybabe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/08
#2re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 4:04am
Thank you.....next!
Updated On: 7/5/08 at 04:04 AM
#3re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 7:09am
Jack the Ripper. There's an empty place in my heart waiting to be filled by a great Jack the Ripper musical.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#4re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 10:00amD.B. Cooper
#5re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 10:11amI always thought it would be great to have a musical about the struggles to write and ratify the Declaration of Independence.
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
#6re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 11:43amJustin Timberlake
NYC_or_Bust
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/8/05
#7re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 11:54amA gay romp of a musical about Hitler would be cute!
I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2
#8re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 12:06pmhhahahahahaha nyc_or_bust
"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson
#9re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 12:29pmNo. You're another one whose posts are inane. Are you that starved for attention that you must ask stupid questions on here?
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#10re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 12:29pmFor once, we agree on something Kalimba.
gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#11re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 12:32pmMary Martin they could do a biograpghy musical about her.
#12re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 12:56pmQuentin Crisp
#13re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 3:12pmFrida Kahlo
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#14re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 3:31pmNostradamus
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sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#15re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 4:37pmEdgar Allen Poe
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#16re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 4:40pmThere WAS a Jack-the-Ripper musical in London...it closed in previews.
http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer
EganFan2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/8/04
#17re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 4:46pm"You're a naughty one, Saucy Jack".
#18re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 4:49pmHistory musicals tend not to go down very well (Rex, I and Albert, Thomas and the King, Ben Franklin in Paris, La Révolution Française). Apart from 1776, I can't think of one that has been successful.
#19re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 4:54pmRose Havock.
I chose, and my world was shaken. So what?
The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not.
#20re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 5:01pm
Jesus Christ Superstar, Scrippsy? 
Parade, Floyd Collins, both financial flops but critical darlings, so only half-floppy.
What's that one about the Argentinian bint again? Maybe you won't know it, it was the '70s after all...
#21re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 5:11pmThank you Weez! I stand much corrected! Should I link this to your "things you feel dumb about" thread?
#22re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 5:23pm
Assassins, Gypsy, The King And I, Sunday In The Park With George. I think I've exhausted all the cast recordings on my iPod that reference real people. :)
I do get where you were coming from though, there's a big difference between a musical that happens to be set in the past and a musical about a historical figure. I still get points for Evita though. 
brochatkid
Stand-by Joined: 5/10/08
#23re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 5:31pmSigmund Freud would be interesting.
#24re: Is there a historical figure you would like portrayed in a Bway show?
Posted: 7/5/08 at 5:36pm
Just rub it in, why don't you?
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Does A Man For All Seasons sing?
*Scripps tries to regain some dignity*
