petition to rename Booth Theater after Lin Manuel miranda- Page 3

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 10:44am

What? It’s not?!?!

Petition!

[markypoo]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 10:48am

Wasn't it named after the Voting BOOTH, which - as we all know - has the capacity for eliciting some truly incredible causes and effects on occasion...

[darquegk]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 10:56am

It was obviously named after Xander Berkeley vehicle "The Booth at the End," which aired on FX and wasn't a complete ripoff of LOST whatsoever.

[Cora Hoover Hooper]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 12:22pm

And while we're at it, how about one for Tennessee Williams?

[10086sunset]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 2:28pm

Updated On: 3/22/18 at 02:28 PM

[JBroadway]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 3:07pm

I've posted this in about a million threads, but here we go again. PSA, everyone: 

[devonian.t]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 3:08pm

Mr Roxy is here but not posting- which I think is a pity, even though I often disagreed with his views.  Self-censorship is not good for freedom of speech.

Whilst we're talking about theatre names, can anyone tell me where I can find the Lunt Fountain which had a theatre named after it...?

[Andy51]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 3:14pm

JBroadway said: "I've posted this in about a million threads, but here we go again. PSA, everyone:

"

I think you may be mistakenly conflating being an ignoramus with being a troll.

Updated On: 3/22/18 at 03:14 PM

[JBroadway]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 3:34pm

No, I really don't think I am. I think the OP is pretty obviously a troll. Pretending to be really stupid to provoke outraged responses is like Troll 101 on this message board.

[savedalltheletters]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 4:22pm

ok i come back to 50 responses calling me a troll and trash, i'm 17 years old sorry i didn't know who Edward booth was. He seems very interesting but he was important 100 years ago and there are a million people who are more important now. and That's who a theater should be named after

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 4:26pm

Did you know even at 17 that you are able to do some light research before creating a petition?

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 4:28pm

Who is Edward Booth?

[kaykordeath]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 4:35pm

savedalltheletters said: "ok i come back to 50 responses calling me a troll and trash, i'm 17 years old sorry i didn't know who Edward booth was. He seems very interesting but he was important 100 years ago andthere are a million people who are more important now. and That's who a theater should be named after"

And in 100 years, theaters will be named for those people that are important now, to save them from being forgotten.

 

That's how time passing and memorializing people works.

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 4:40pm

savedalltheletters said: "ok i come back to 50 responses calling me a troll and trash, i'm 17 years old sorry i didn't know who Edward booth was. He seems very interesting but he was important 100 years ago andthere are a million people who are more important now. and That's who a theater should be named after"

That's not how namesakes work, bud. Sorry.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 4:44pm

Should they rename Times Square once the NYT goes out of business?

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 4:46pm

savedalltheletters said: "ok i come back to 50 responses calling me a troll and trash, i'm 17 years old sorry i didn't know who Edward booth was. He seems very interesting but he was important 100 years ago andthere are a million people who are more important now. and That's who a theater should be named after"

EDWIN Booth. Sweet Christ.

[markypoo]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 4:52pm

Sweet Christ.
That's someone worthy enough of naming a theater after.

[Jarethan]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 5:04pm

pupscotch said: "If we’re renaming the theater (which I think is completely and utterly pointless), why not for Cole Porter, or Oscar Hammerstein, or even Andrew Lloyd Webber? Perhaps after Jerome Robbins or Hal Prince? Lin isn’t even on my list of people that should have theaters named after them. I have enjoyed reading this thread though!"

...or Tennessee Williams or Ethel Merman or Angela Lansbury or James Earl Jones or Arthur Miller or Julie Harris or Michael Bennett or Tommy Tune or Jason Robards or Kander and Ebb or Bob Fosse or...  

I am not suggesting that all of these people should or can have theatres named after them; however, they (and others) certainly all deserve serious consideration decades before Miranda.  

If Miranda continues to write for the theatre and as long as his future work is quality stuff (let's face it, he is not likely to surpass Hamilton), he may well deserve to have a theatre named after him...in about 50 years.  By then,time will have long passed to rename the Golden, the Jacobs, the Schoenfeld, the Neil Simon (how long before most of his work is largely forgotten as being hopelessly dated -- I recently saw the movies of California Suite and Plaza Suite and was shocked to see how badly both of them have aged; they were both positively awful), hopefully the Minskoff and the Marquis, the Broadhurst (who was Broadhurst anyway???), the Nederlander, the Al Hirschfeld (sic?), and etc.

I am in awe of what Miranda accomplished with Hamilton (I thought In the Heights was a cute show), but it would be positively moronic to name a theatre after him based on one show.   To do so in the next X decades would be to deny much of Broadway's rich history.

 

[UncleCharlie]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 5:32pm

savedalltheletters said: "ok i come back to 50 responses calling me a troll and trash, i'm 17 years old sorry i didn't know who Edward booth was. He seems very interesting but he was important 100 years ago andthere are a million people who are more important now. and That's who a theater should be named after"

After finding out you were ridiculously ignorant about who the Booth Theater was named for, you had 2 ways you could go with this. 1) Acknowledge the error, delete your idiotic petition and learn a valuable life lesson about the importance of knowing what you are talking about or 2) Acknowledge nothing and just double down on the stupid. You've clearly made the right choice.

[SamIAm]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 5:44pm

I you are really serious about this, you need, first, to read all the responses in order to understand the real story and who the theater is, in fact, named after and then understand that, while Miranda is indeed talented, it takes a bit more than 1-2 hit shows in a brief couple of decades to make the kind of impact on American theater that would warrant naming a theater after a person. 

The Sondheim re-naming was years in the making and the man is the greatest composer to come along in a generation. To make history and be recognized for that effort is a life long effort. 

 

[markypoo]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 7:36pm

Unless my nearly 63 year old memory is playing tricks on me, both Merman and Williams (or was it only the latter) did have middle sized venues named for them for a brief period in the '80's, but legal technicalities over naming rights reverted one of them to the Jack Lawrence Theatre. Or something.
Maybe someone else recalls more of this situation than I.

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 7:41pm

Mildred Plotka said: "10086sunset said: "Threads like this make me miss Mr. Roxy.

Sure he would have agreed with the original poster:)"

Roxy would have used this thread to rant about Hamilton ticket prices and the time his wife got yelled at in the bathroomfor saying she didn’t want to see the show."

Anyone wondering about Roxy, he’s still lurking around. Just sent me a passive aggressive pm about his recent misfortunes and then said that should bring a smile to my face. Very Roxy. Glad he’s still with us. 

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 7:55pm

That's who a theater should be named after

Honey, Miranda ain't even in the top 25 people who need theatres named after them. Get in line.

Also, for the record, not every theatre should be named after someone. We still need those iconic theatre names (Majestic, St. James, Winter Garden, etc). Would hate to see those names go. 

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

Posted: 3/22/18 at 7:58pm

The OP is just a 17-year-old kid whose hormones are probably running high for Lin. This petition was just an expression of that teenaged focused obsession. Next time, just post gifs on Tumblr.

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 3/23/18 at 12:15am

ScottyDoesn'tKnow2 said: "The OP is just a 17-year-old kid whose hormones are probably running high for Lin. This petition was just an expression of that teenaged focused obsession. Next time, just post gifs on Tumblr."

Or send something to @bwayconfesses on Twitter. Most of the people who post in there are teenagers, and many of the confessions are as clueless as this petition, (such as one that thought Amélie closed so quickly because it didn't play in a "smaller more intimate theatre because it would’ve added something to the concept of Amélie’s world being so small and closed off" )

Updated On: 3/23/18 at 12:15 AM