My newest patriotic ballot: Rank these ten Broadway musicals that take precise American historical past as their topic, from most to least favourite.
Two are at present on Broadway; one is scheduled to open later this season. The others had no less than one run on Broadway (and reside on in forged recordings.) Beneath the ballot is a short description of every present.
These musicals use the precise names of historic figures and try to re-create actual occasions, though some take extra liberties than others. (Different Broadway musicals have referred to American historical past, however created fictitious characters, or used fictitious names, and invented occasions.)
I’ll publish the combination outcomes.
The titles are listed alphabetically. To rank them, merely transfer every into the order that you just want — the primary one on the very high — after which press “submit.”
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Music by: Leonard Bernstein; E-book and lyrics by: Alan Jay Lerner
On Broadway from Could 4, 1976 – Could 08, 1976
The story of the White Home occupants from 1800–1900,
1776
Music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards. E-book by Peter Stone
Mar 16, 1969 – Feb 13, 1972
Aug 14, 1997 – Jun 14, 1998
Oct 6, 2022 – Jan 08, 2023
The deliberations that led the Founding Fathers to signal the Declaration of Independence.
Assassins
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
E-book by John Weidman
Apr 22, 2004 – Jul 18, 2004
Dec 3, 2012 – Dec 03, 2012
The women and men who tried to assassinate U.S. Presidents, some efficiently.
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Music and lyrics by Michael Friedman
E-book by Alex Timbers
Oct 13, 2010 – Jan 02, 2011
A campy unflattering dramatization of the lifetime of President Andrew Jackson
Fiorello
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
E-book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott
Nov 23, 1959 – Oct 28, 1961
The lifetime of New York Metropolis Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
Floyd Collins
Music and lyrics by Adam Guettel
E-book by Tina Landau
This 1994 musical is opening at Lincoln Middle’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, April 21, 2025
Floyd Collins was a cave explorer who bought trapped 200 toes underground, leading to a rescue try that generated what’s been known as the primary fashionable media circus
Hamilton
Music, e-book and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Opened at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theater August 6, 2015
The life and occasions of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father whose face is on the ten greenback invoice
Parade
Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
E-book by Alfred Uhry
Dec 17, 1998 – Feb 28, 1999
Mar 16, 2023 – Aug 06, 2023
The 1913 trial and subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish manufacturing unit superintended accused of raping and murdering an worker in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Scottsboro Boys
Music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb
E-book by David Thompson
Oct 31, 2010 – Dec 12, 2010
Structured as a minstrel present, the musical tells the true story of 9 black teenagers in 1931 jailed for a rape they didn’t commit, which turned a trigger célèbre.
Suffs
Music, e-book and lyrics by Shaina Taub
Opened on Broadway’s Music Field Theater April 18, 2024
The final seven years within the profitable battle by American suffragists, who known as themselves Suffs, to win girls the correct to vote.
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