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Murderers as Broadway Heroes
#25re: Murderers as Broadway Heroes
Posted: 9/8/04 at 2:14pm
Don't forget JEKYLL & HYDE, or SWEENEY TODD!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the assassins in ASSASSINS are not murderers ... they are assassins. Murder is a tawdry little crime; it's born of greed, or lust or liquor. Adulterers and shopkeepers get murdered. But when a President gets killed, when Julius Caesar got killed ... he was assassinated.
Updated On: 9/8/04 at 02:14 PM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/04
#26re: Murderers as Broadway Heroes
Posted: 9/8/04 at 3:36pm
I don't know if she can qualify as a hero persay, perhaps a tragic hero: Marie Christine.
Let's count down shall we:
Lisette, her maid
Paris, her brother
Someone in New York
Helena, Dante's new wife
Her two sons
All those murders yet we feel for a woman who was so consumed with love for Dante that she lost control and killed those she loved.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#27re: Murderers as Broadway Heroes
Posted: 9/8/04 at 4:46pmIs'nt there a murder/robbery in Carousel?
#28re: Murderers as Broadway Heroes
Posted: 9/8/04 at 6:02pm
Billy and his partner in crime do kill somebody...yet I can't remember who.
There is a murder in bat boy as well...does the Dr not kill Edgar?
In WSS, Bernardo kills Riff which spurs Tony to kill Nardo.
In JCSS, Judas also falls to his death (doesn't he?).
In SFANW during "one more step" the wife falls off the ledge to her death as well.
Edward Hyde kills nearly everyone in J&H. "go to sleep, my tormented love.."
I'll think of others eventually....
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CLAYTON HAMILTON, "Theory of the Theatre"
"I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is."
TOM STOPPARD
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