Robot characters on Broadway

I know the term, "robot" comes from the 1920 play, R.U.R. or Rossum's Universal Robots, which played on Broadway at the Garrick Theatre in 1922. It was even the Broadway debuts for Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien.

However, have there been any robot characters of prominence since?

There's a robot character in Spongebob, isn't there?

Technically speaking, Hal Prince was a robot. 11 hours across in Japan, but it's something.

Return to the Forbidden Planet

I'm still bitter Broadway hasn't gotten a proper production of this. I saw the 2001 UK tour and it was GENIUS. In the US, it's been relegated to awful amateur and school productions that suck all the creativity out of the show.

Conky in The Pee-wee Herman Show?

Mister Matt said: "Return to the Forbidden Planet

I'm still bitter Broadway hasn't gotten a proper production of this. I saw the 2001 UK tour and it was GENIUS. In the US, it's been relegated to awful amateur and school productions that suck all the creativity out of the show.



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The hidden producer in me thinks we're about 3-5 years too late for this and/or a Starmites revival. At the PEAK of the Marvel/Game of Thrones/Comic/Nerd focus of pop culture (let's NOT go into Turn Off The Dark), I think the timing could have been prime to tap into the zeitgeist.

Lord of the Dance.

DSamuels90 said: "The show didn't play on Broadway, so it might not count, but there's a VERY prominent robot in the musical version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis. The character spends most of the show in the form of Maria, but if the album is any indication, "Futura" should have had at least two scenes in the first act: the reveal of the Futura robot in the laboratory, and the Act I finale when Maria's likeness is transposed onto the machine."

Indeed, and Maria/Futura was played by none other than Judy Kuhn in London.



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I'm shocked no one has mentioned the Christine sex-bot yet, but I'm also happy that we're really trying to not acknowledge that show's existence...