Historical Figures Made into Musicals

[Forester]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 6:13am

The Elisabeth thread got me to wonder, what other historical figures has been made into a musical? also, what historical figure would you like to see made into a musical? Personally, mary antoinette would be an interesting musical.

[scooter38432]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 6:17am

Here are a few musicals about historical figures...

EVITA
FIORELLO
1776 (Had a whole cast full of historical figures)
TITANIC (?)

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 8:48am

The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
The Boy from Oz.

[mikewood]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 8:53am

...I don't know if Peter Allen quite makes the grade as a "historical" figure.

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 9:16am

Ben Franklin in Paris
Pippin
Coco
Fiorello
The King and I
The Sound of Music
Rex
1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Goodtime Charley
George M

[exedore]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 9:48am

Mozart
Lincoln (well, as much as he's a constant reference in "Reunion")


It would be cool to see a musical on Bismarck or Frederick the Great.

[Chicago74]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 9:54am

A new musical is being developed in Chicago:

The Teapot Scandals of 1923

It is a musical vaudeville based on the Warren Harding Administration, set two seeks after his death.

I've heard the music and it's hysterical!!

[Sant]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 9:57am

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR.

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 9:59am

The whole cast of ASSASSINS.

[wildcat]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 10:12am

Young Abe Lincoln
Teddy and Alice
Elizabeth and Essex
Wallis (three musicals!)
Jimmy (Walker)
Her First Roman (Caesar & Cleopatra)
Nefertiti
Kean
Belle Starr
Hello Suckers! (Texas Guinan)
Annie Get Your Gun

[allamarane]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 10:55am

Half the characters in Ragtime
Floyd Collins
FDR in Annie

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[keggss23]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 11:12am

Martin Guerre

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 11:15am

Princess Diana

[DTBG2]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 12:24pm

---i loved 1776.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 12:47pm

Napoleon

A totally horrid Canadian musical that totally flopped....and I was one of the fools who paid money to see it......(and probably the only person in California to own the cast recording, lol)

[whatyouown223]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 3:23pm

Ummm....Dracula?? Nah, he was fake.

[Forester]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 3:36pm

"Ummm....Dracula?? Nah, he was fake."

The idea of Dracula (the Bram Stroker version) is from a real person, Vlad the Impaler. Word has it he was a cannibal.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 6:05pm

A really obscure musical called "Brigham" with Harve Presnell as Brigham Young commissioned by the mormons. I may still have the LP. I have to check

[suzycat]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 6:16pm

I love that Anne L. Nathan played Emma Goldman in Assassins and was the understudy for Emma Goldman in Ragtime.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 6:19pm

Mack Sennett - Mack & Mabel
W C Fields - W.C.
Mike Todd - Ain't Broadway Grand

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 6:35pm

Chicago, if you consider Roxie Hart to be a historical figure

[wildcat]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 8:17pm

I think Roxie's real name was Beulah Annan.

[Jon]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 9:30pm

There was a musical done in Chicago in the early 1980's called ONE SHINING MOMENT, about JFK . The concept of the show was that a group of college kids were putting on a show as a school project. The cast included the following future stars, who were all in their early 20's at the time:

Kevin Anderson as JFK
Megan Mullaly as Jackie
Alan Ruck as LBJ

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 9:50pm

PARADE-Leo and Lucille Frank and the Mary Phagan rape and murder trial (considered, at the time, The Trial of the Century).

The character of Burrs in THE WILD PARTY is loosely based on Fatty Arbuckle.

[RumTumTugger22]

Posted: 4/22/05 at 10:25pm

Lennon Anyone?