almost-always-eventually-right:

publius-esquire:

williamdavie:

cool-cool-considerate-men:

williamdavie:

When is someone going to write 1787, a musical involving the founding fathers who are drafting the constitution

You have no idea how much I want this to happen.  And Hamilton better get a solo.

If I remember correctly, Hamilton once gave a speech that was so long the delegates couldn’t break for lunch. I wonder how that’d turn out in the musical.

No but guys, I’ve given a lot of thought to things like this.

The most obvious stars of this would be James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. It could start at the Annapolis Convention, where they could sing about how much they think the Articles of Confederation suck and wouldn’t be awesome it we just got a new government.

Then, bam, big musical number where all the delegates arrive at Philadelphia. It could end when Washington arrives like the big damn Messiah-figure he is, where he’s nominated president of the Congress and they set to debate.

The rest of the musical is basically them just disagreeing on shit left and right. Like, at one point, the Virginia and New Jersey delegations could be at each others throats about representation in the houses, or maybe even have it set to a waltz, until Connecticut comes in and pacifies them.

Hamilton bringing up his six-hour speech in favor of things that look like monarchy but aren’t really monarchy could serve as the intermission. Everyone could say whatever the 18th century version of “We’ll never be Royals (Royals)” is.

Of course the South, led by South Carolina, would have the villain song, where they defend the 3/5th’s clause like the asshats they are. The rest of the delegates will essentially sell their souls to them while the image pans away to the people who aren’t represented in this new government (namely anyone who isn’t white land-owning male)

Madison would get his solo number about how he feels like an underdog.

It ends on the dubious note that while the Constitution is signed, they still need to get all the states to ratify. Hamilton and Madison duet about the possibility of a Federalist Paper brigade, and it’s basically a re-invention of the first song, only this is about how much the Constitution doesn’t suck compared to the Articles of Confederation.

Cue curtain.

This thread is from 2013 and boy did they predict something big.