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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.