Broadway Honors System

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)

Dame Audra McDonald

Dame Donna Murphy

Sir Lin-Manuel Miranda

Spoilsport.

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.

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