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Here's an odd little question, perhaps. I was at Barnes and Noble today and milling around it's used plays. I found the scripts to The Investigation, which used the actual transcripts of trials about the killings in auschwitz and Are You Or Have you Ever Been...? which used actual testimony from the Unamerican Activities Committee about Communism in Hollywood and the blacklist. One of my favorite musicals is 1776, which tells how the Declaration of Independence was debated on and finally voted for and signed.

Question is: what historical event would you like to see a play about? Or perhaps even write?

I want to write about a young man who wanted to assassinate someone who wanted to rule the world. He even was able to talk to him and would have been freed, except he said if freed he'd try to kill him anyway. So, he was executed. I don't want to give away too much, which is why I'm not mentioning the historical person's name.

Not right now, but, like, twenty years from now I would like to see a musical on 9/11 and the government.

Hee hee...that would be great.

I would love to see a League of Gentlemen spoof of the Battle of Hastings (Reece Shearsmith as William smile )

This is a local England... for local people...

events? hmmm... i'k like to see a humorous twist on 1) the spanish inquisition, 2) columbus's trip, and 3) marco polo. can't you just see the singing/dancing prisoners in the spanish inquisition? they could be like that one guy in the prison scene of 'monty python and the holy grail.' that would be sweet.
columbus could have some interesting trading items/techniques with the natives.
and marco polo... well, there could be a little spoof off of the pool game. there could be some very intriguing sword fights and trade sequences.
someone write it, post it on fanfiction.com, and then tell everyone to read it! 3nodding

Maybe 20 years from now, but right now some people need to calm down. I was 45 minutes outside of the city when it happened. I was in 6th grade, and it was my fifth day of school. No one knew what to do, and as tragic and horrifying as it was, some people need to let it go. I have read poems written about September 11th, and I am flabbergasted as to what I'm supposed to say to this girl who writes about the fear that her school will be bombed, in Alaska. I am not denying the tragedy, but there are too many people that don't know the whole story who didn't truly feel my pain. Most of them weren't crying when the news broke over the PA because they knew someone in the Towers. They didn't have to watch the empty seats of classmates who were at funerals. They didn't see the face of that girl in my homeroom when she was told that her aunt had been sick and not gone to work.

I couldn't stand to have a musical written by someone who didn't feel everything that happened... Anything short of that would be an injustice to the horror.

How about:

-Watergate
-Tower of Babel (not technically historical, but hey)
-Hannibal's march on Rome (the trumpeting elephants sound! >.<)
-The American Revolution
-apartheid
-Che Gueverra (like Motorcycle Diaries or something...)
-Babylon
-Persian Wars (the Battles of Thermopylae and Marathon)

my two bits. 3nodding

There's been a musical written about a French revolution. Quite popular, actually.