petition to rename Booth Theater after Lin Manuel miranda- Page 4

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 3/23/18 at 1:45am

^ I am amazed and horrified that that Twitter is known on here.

[SweetLips]

Posted: 3/23/18 at 3:22am

I think the trainer wheel fell off his tricycle whilst peddling[?] around Broadway; he toppled over and woke to find his foot in his mouth.

Oh to be 17 again--------no thanks !

[blaxx]

Posted: 3/23/18 at 3:50am

It's cute that people thought this was a real thread. 

[kaykordeath]

Posted: 3/23/18 at 6:26am

blaxx said: "It's cute that people thought this was a real thread."

 

Based on the 17 year olds I know, there's zero reason to think this wasn't.

[Leaf Coneybear]

Posted: 3/23/18 at 9:10am

As an actual 17 year old, I can vouch that this is most likely a real thread. Tons of people I know would do something similar.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/23/18 at 12:01pm

FWIW:  I asked my own 17 year old who he thought the Booth Theater was named for.  His answer was something like: the only Booth I can think of is John Wilkes and I'm about 90% sure that would be wrong.  

 

Then he went online and googled it.  Not all teenagers are ridiculous.

[JudyDenmark]

Posted: 3/23/18 at 1:54pm

To be fair, I'm 37, consider myself pretty knowledgeable about musical theatre (certainly compared to the general public), and had no idea who the Booth Theatre was named after.

However, I do know how to use Google, and thanks to this thread have learned a whole lot about Edwin Booth. FWIW, I vote for Jerry Herman, Bob Fosse, or Cole Porter getting the next named theatre. 

I also 100% believe that this was not meant to be a troll thread. OP... sorry people are being so snarky to you, because I believe you were well-intentioned. But yeah, man... Google is your friend! Hamilton's great, but there's a whole big world of amazing musical theatre out there. Explore! Learn more! Lin-Manuel Miranda is just the tip of the iceberg. 

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 3/23/18 at 2:00pm

bwayconfesses is a hilarious hate-read.

As is this thread.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/23/18 at 2:51pm

Loretta Swit needs a theater named after her. Years from now we'd hear people saying, "I'm seeing the revival of VIA GALACTICA at The Swit."

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 3/23/18 at 3:09pm

BroadwayNYC2 said: "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."

You mean the St. James isn't named after Susan St. James?

 

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 3/23/18 at 10:40pm

I knew the Booth Theatre was named for Edwin Booth, but I had no freakin' idea that the guy saved the son of the man his brother famously assassinated...in a theatre.

Seriously, if I had written a plot like that for one of my shows, it would be derided as too far-fetched.

Truth is stranger than fiction...

[dunebuddy]

Posted: 3/25/18 at 6:44pm

Oh, Dear Heart - To get your panties all in a knot to rename a theater after LMM - the great extortionist.  No way. 

Here's an idea for you to start a petition about -

Why is the St. James the only theater named after a saint?  

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/25/18 at 8:23pm

The Great Extortionist?  WTF is that about ?

 

And no, you don't start a petition to get information.   Not the purpose of a petition at all.