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Favorite History Play?
#25re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 4/19/06 at 3:50pm
Hate to be a sheep, but have to go with Richard III
I also love Henry V.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
dramaqueen3
Understudy Joined: 7/31/05
#27re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 1:16am
Just to play devil's advocate here... why would you laugh if someone said Children of Eden, Godspell or JCS?
Okay,... I can actually understand your laughing at children of eden as a historical play. but the other two... whether or not you believe in Jesus, it has been historical proven that he lived and died. so therefore, aren't the shows just accurate as the rest of the shows being mentioned on this board?
And, you could argue that, while yes he lived and died, the other details in the play might not be as historically accurate, but then i ask you, if you really examine the details in most historical plays, haven't they all been stretched a little bit for the sake of the story?
*the choice may have been mistaken, but choosing was not*
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#28re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 1:27am
Who's laughing at those suggestions, dramaqueen3?
I can't recall having read or seen Children of Eden, and I saw but don't remember much of Godspell, but JCS could certainly been seen in the light of a history play, with the Bible as its main source material.
Updated On: 5/12/06 at 01:27 AM
dramaqueen3
Understudy Joined: 7/31/05
#29re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 1:41amNecromancer07707: "I'll laugh if some one says GODSPELL, CHILDREN OF EDEN, or JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR."
*the choice may have been mistaken, but choosing was not*
iliketheater
Broadway Star Joined: 12/10/05
#31re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 3:44am
On topic: I was going to die if someone mentioned The History Boys, but somebody did... I suppose it presents a historical view of schooling in England in the 1980s. I recently read A Man For All Seasons. I enjoyed it.
I felt like my ranting was just too off topic, but in short, there's no conclusive physical evidence (or writing) that proves Jesus was a real person. All accounts of his life are hearsay written several generations after he may have lived. Feel free to disagree with me and present your proof though. Here are some websites purporting that Jesus did not exist.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcno.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus
http://www.nobeliefs.com/exist.htm
Here's one supporting the existence of Jesus:
http://www.bede.org.uk/jesusmyth.htm
But my favorite historical play? Probably The Ark. Or maybe Sidd.
yr ronin,
joey
Updated On: 5/12/06 at 03:44 AM
joey
#32re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 9:18amI'm one of those rare folks who really liked the Pacific Overtures revival. Then again, I never had the opportunity to see the original.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#33re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 1:24pm
Roninjoey, the "epistles" or letters of Saint Paul which are included in the Bible have to have been written during Saint Paul's life, which is the same generation as Christ.
To me the disavowal of the existence of Christ is similar to the denial of the holocaust against the Jews in WWII, so kindly take those offensive comments to some other thread or start your own. I would appreciate it if you do not continue to make offensive comments against against my religion in this thread.
(In the Bible and our Christian religion there is only one act taught to Episcopalians that is heresy. That is to deny that Christ came and did the things that he did. This is why your comments are particularly offensive.)
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
Hawker
Featured Actor Joined: 2/23/04
#35re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 4:16pmWould "The Exonerated" qualify as a history play or even a play at all as opposed to a "theatrical experience"? If it's the latter it would rate out after "CVR"; if it's the former I'd include it.
#36re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 4:24pm
1776
Les Miserables
"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!"
#37re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 6:09pm
WHITE ROSE
DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
"Not everyone can come and go by bubble"
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#39re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:14amThough Macbeth is considered a tragedy, it has some basis in historical fact. There was an ancient Scottish King who was usurped in a murderous scandal, or so I was taught.
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#40re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:45am
Okay then... Macbeth would be on the list
Assassins
1776
Ragtime
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#41re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:46am
"Becket"
"The Lion In Winter"
"Saturday Night Fever" (history of disco) 
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
#42re: Favorite History Play?
Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:49am
um, Ronin, it was a joke. Calm down.
does The Last Days of Judas Iscariot count? 
"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
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