If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
#0If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 10:57amWho wants to go first? This should be fun!
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
#1re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 10:59am
Costumes!!!
Also footage or even whole shows. Get a small theater and show it, like they do in other museums.
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#2re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 11:03am
Well, you could have a couple of big rooms for each decade, and showcase the type of things they used back then...costumes would be great...maybe wax figures of actors! 
#3re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 11:04am
Interviews with broadway performers
A virtual show set-up where YOU can be imaged into a show (like, put your image into a scene in a show, and you can move and dance around like you are in it)
#4re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 11:04am
I'm talking specific items like...
Tina Maddigan's Wedding Dress and Joe Machota's Speedo from Mamma Mia!
Get my drift?
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#5re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 11:15am
The original Avenue Q puppets.
The Brown eyed Kate. 
20 years of costumes from Forbidden Broadway.
And Craig Bierko.
The original costumes of A Chorus Line.
Sketches by William Ivey Long
Sam Norkin's entire theater collection.
The PUCCI dresses that Harvey wore as Edna.
The red dress that Bruce wore on the Hairspray tour.
Tracy's wigs
Bruce Vilanch's tee shirt collection.
Updated On: 7/4/05 at 11:15 AM
BwayBoy25
Leading Actor Joined: 6/19/05
#6re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 11:21am
the blanket from producers
#7re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 11:21amMy memoery may be going, but isn't there a thetre (broadway type) museum in London? I believe it used to be somewhere in Covent Garden. Can anyone confirm this?
#8re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 11:25am
Yup! The Victoria and Albert Mueseum in London is for theater.
I would want to see original pieces of sets and costumes. For example: The "Sunday in the Park with George" dress that Bernadette wears in the first scene. Tap shoes from the original "42nd street" ect.
#9re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 11:26amThe turntable from Les Miserables. I wan't to know how fast it can move.
#10re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 11:28amSpeaking of originals and the Victoria/Albert Museum in London. When I was there in December, they had an exhibit on the 100 year anniversary of PETER PAN. Part of the display, was the costume the very first Peter Pan (Nina Boucicault) wore in 1904. Now THAT is worthy of a museum...
morebroadwayplease
Leading Actor Joined: 6/15/05
#11re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 11:51am
I would like to see elphaba's 2nd act costume and how about if some performers were willing, their dead bodies.....lol
A room for each decade or a room for an extremely successful musical
ikmbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#12re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 11:59amAngel's outfit in Today 4 U and Elphaba's act II dress. Although they do have an exhibit for A chorus Line and RENT somewhere in the city. I forget where though. Museum of NYC ehh I dont know.
#13re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:00pmRobert Goulet's hair
morebroadwayplease
Leading Actor Joined: 6/15/05
#14re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:02pm
it would be REALLY cool if there was a camera and you could pretend that you are in the musical. It would be even cooler if you could buy a system that put your voice and you in the place of a character of your choice. Omg, I'm getting chills
It would also be cool if in the souvineer shop you could buy a video of the productions.
These is such a great thread!
#15re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:04pm
Every pair of roller skates used in Starlight Express.
:)
morebroadwayplease
Leading Actor Joined: 6/15/05
#16re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:09pmewww that would be disgusting
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#17re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:11pmNo one would wear them, though....
#18re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:15pm
Norma's mansion from Sunset Boulevard.
Not bloody likely, though.
Up In Lost
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/05
#19re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:19pmNever actually saw Sunset, but I heard the mansion was amazing. Was that the part that loweredinto and rose from the stage? )I think it was, right? I now I've seen a cruddy picture somewhere.)
#20re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:23pm
Reserve the biggest room for Phantom - not because it's the best show (though it will be the longest running), but because you can have so much fun with it. First, you would need to take a small boat ride to get to it. You go in, and there would be a spot where you turned a corner, and the mannequin (in the wedding dress) fell out at you, like in the Ripley's museum. Various masks and costumes from the Masquerade scene would be everywhere. The room would be lit entirely by candles (electric, I'm assuming). The room would have a very high ceiling, and every ten minutes the chandelier would fly down to about eight feet off the ground and stop. At random times, evil laughs or eerie organ music would play throughout the room - but the speakers would have to be set up in such a way so you couldn't really tell where it was coming from. You'd leave the room through the mouth of a giant monkey....
it would be great!
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Joined: 12/31/69
#21re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:23pm
morebroadwayplease... that would be such an awesome idea! you could be in the musical, but with a bunch of famous people as your costars!
I don't really like wax people...
I think it would be cool if they had a bunch of opening night performance tapes, and they woudl set up some tvs and you would be allowed to watch the tapes. It would take forever, so maybe they would charge something extra to watch the video.
#22re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:26pmBring your instruments and be a part of the pit for your favorite musical. That would be a hoot. I'm bringing my trumpet. Updated On: 7/4/05 at 12:26 PM
Up In Lost
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/05
#23re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:28pmThey could so have a Pit exhibit. A lot of people (Including myself) don't know much of anything that goes on in the pit.
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#24re: If there was a Broadway Museum, what would you like to see on exhibit?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:30pm
Forester, how about if the muesuem provided instruments?
Another possibility...take all the greatest Broadway actors and actresses and make small exhibits for them...
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