Favorite History Play?
Favorite History Play?
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#0Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/7/06 at 11:46pm
Do you have a favorite historical drama or history play, including musicals?
I like Henry V and 1776, but I'm not sure either is my favorite...
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#1re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/7/06 at 11:47pmLes Miserables
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#2re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/8/06 at 12:51amAlthough The Scarlet Pimpernel's books and music leave a lot to be desired, I absolutely love the show. This is mostly because I'm a huge nerd and love the French Revolution, and I'm actually of distant relation to Robespierre.
#3re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/8/06 at 1:07am
The Lion in Winter
Ragtime
Cabaret
I Wish... Madeline Kahn could have played the Witch in Into the Woods. She would have rocked!
Updated On: 4/8/06 at 01:07 AM
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#5re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/8/06 at 1:23am
Henry IV
Richard III
The Crucible
A Man for All Seasons
The Great White Hope
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#6re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/8/06 at 1:26amDefinately Richard III
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#8re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/8/06 at 1:26am
The Crucible
Journey's End
Cabaret - even though it's a MUSICAL.
#10re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/8/06 at 11:18am1776
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#12re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/8/06 at 11:32amLes Miserables
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
#13re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/8/06 at 11:51am
...The History Boys... 
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Hawker
Featured Actor Joined: 2/23/04
briarbrad
Stand-by Joined: 3/16/05
#16re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/8/06 at 12:04pm
Ragtime
Assassins
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#17re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/8/06 at 5:14pmAssassins
This is wanting something
This is reaching for it
This is wishing that a moment would arrive- LITP
everybody goes down well with beer!-sweeney
Todd
Listen to the stories
Hear it in the songs
Angry men don't write the rules and guns don't right the wrongs!-Assassins
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#19re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/8/06 at 5:28pm
Les Mis
Why didn't they have more good history musicals when I was in HS?
Hartt School class of 2010 ;-)
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#21re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/10/06 at 11:15pm
Definately, most definately, THE KENTUCKY CYCLE.
I'll laugh if some one says GODSPELL, CHILDREN OF EDEN, or JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR.
"I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, one is influenced by everyone one meets, everything is an exchange of influences, all opinions are derivative. Once you deal a new deck of cards, you've got a new deck of cards."
— Peter Brook
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#23re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/11/06 at 12:25amRagtime but 1776 is a close second. Molasses to Rum is an amazing song.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
meggsison
Broadway Star Joined: 7/4/05
#24re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/19/06 at 3:48pmThe Crucible.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
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