Broadway Honors System

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/16/24 at 2:31pm

If Broadway, or New York, or the whole US, had an honors system like the UK...  who would have what titles? Who would you award your own honors to?

Lord Stephen Sondheim

Lord John Kander

Dame Bernadette Peters

Dame Patti LuPone

Sir Maury Yeston

Sir David Hyde Pierce

Sir Michael Cerveris

Laura Benanti OBE (Order of the Broadway Empire)

Kelli O’Hara OBE

Sutton Foster OBE

Jonathan Groff MBE (Member of the Broadway Empire)

 

[Georgeanddot2]

Posted: 1/16/24 at 2:36pm

No.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/16/24 at 2:44pm

Dame Audra McDonald

Dame Donna Murphy

Sir Lin-Manuel Miranda

 

 

[akhoya87]

Posted: 1/16/24 at 3:30pm

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

- Article I, section 9, clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/16/24 at 3:50pm

Spoilsport.

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 1/16/24 at 5:03pm

I mean...we have the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Kennedy Center Honors, just without the titles.

[SKOC211]

Posted: 1/16/24 at 6:38pm

My understanding is that Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government for bestowing noble titles. It does not prevent private citizens from accepting them. Prince Harry's wife Meghan is the Duchess of Sussex and is an American citizen, as are both their children who are a Prince and Princess. I believe the issue would be if any of them wanted to run for office.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/16/24 at 7:01pm

Grace Kelly being another example?

Sir Nathan Lane

Dame Laurie Metcalf

Idina Menzel OBE

[kdogg36]

Posted: 1/16/24 at 7:39pm

akhoya87 said: "No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

- Article I, section 9, clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution"

I'm trying to figure out how you could have possibly have missed the word "if." It was literally the first word in the original post. Anyhow, since you clearly missed it, this is a hypothetical question based on the presupposition that the US conferred titles of nobility.

Updated On: 1/16/24 at 07:39 PM

[kdogg36]

Posted: 1/16/24 at 7:41pm

Georgeanddot2 said: "No."

Are you saying that none of these people would have titles if the United States conferred them? I'm pretty sure some of them would. Otherwise, see my response to akhoya87.