I just realized, given that most major skiing innovations and innovators have come from Austria or Scandinavia, that skiing wouldn't exist in America to nearly the extent it does IOTL.
Whilst those of us stuck in Europe have all of the skiing !
I just realized, given that most major skiing innovations and innovators have come from Austria or Scandinavia, that skiing wouldn't exist in America to nearly the extent it does IOTL.
Skiing and Keynsianism! TTL me would defect...Whilst those of us stuck in Europe have all of the skiing !
In connection with some emotional problems, I will be away until Monday. I will not come back empty-handed, I want to prepare one or two posts.
Guys, I don't like being a back seat mod or anything like that, but can we please keep the thread on track? There are social threads if you want to talk with each other more or even by PM. I like seeing you guys contribute here but this is a thread dedicated to providing fan material for the Reds! universe.
I'm not trying to single anyone out but it's a trend I've noticed.
@Ravenclaw had a pretty good alt-Hamilton:Anyways, speaking of Hamilton, would there be a TTL equivalent that focused on a leader of the Red May Revolution? Earl Browder, perhaps?
Emma: The Musical
Cast[1]
Emma Goldman—Lenina Miranda
Alexander Berkman—Aaron Tveit
Crystal Eastman—Tracy Nicole
Johann Most/Modest Aronstam/Daniel DeLeon— Joshua Henry
Eugene Debs/Leon Trotsky—Joseph Lane
Upton Sinclair— Anthony Rapp
William Z. Foster—Matthew Broderick
Norman Thomas/Charles Hughes—Brian Darcy
Harry Haywood—Leo Diggs
Henry Clay Frick/Douglas MacArthur—Jonathan Groff
Herbert Hoover/J. Edgar Hoover—Adam Kantor
George Patton/John Reed—Leslie Odom, Jr.
Earl Browder—Jesse Martin
Robert Taft/Franklin Roosevelt—Christopher Jackson
Musical Numbers
Act I
“Emma Goldman (Overture)”—Full company (except MacArthur)
“What Is to Be Done?”—Goldman
“Haymarket”—Debs, Goldman
“Sachs’ Café”—Goldman, Berkman, Most
“No Lords, No Masters”—Goldman, Berkman, Debs, Haywood
“Homestead Strike”—Goldman, Berkman, Aronstam
“Berkman the Assassin”—Berkman, Frick, Aronstam
“One Big Union”—Debs, De Leon
“Tomorrow There’ll Be More Of Us”—Debs
“Roaring Twenties/Biennio Rosso”—Goldman, Foster, Browder, Sinclair, Thomas, Reed
“The Election of 1932”—Thomas, Sinclair, Foster, H. Hoover
“MacArthur’s Coup”—MacArthur, H. Hoover
“The Revolution Marches On”—Thomas
“Mourn Not The Martyrs”—Goldman, Sinclair, Foster, Browder
“The Battle of Pittsburgh”—Patton
“May Day”—Goldman, Foster, Sinclair, Berkman
“Washington (The World Turned Upside Down)”—Full company
“What Comes Next?”—MacArthur
Act II
“Non-Stop”—Goldman, Eastman, Sinclair, Browder
“What’d I Miss”—Reed, Foster, Browder
“Take What You’ve Got”—Goldman
“The Basic Law”—Foster, Browder, Sinclair, Goldman, Eastman, Reed, Trotsky
“The Central Committee”—Foster, Browder, Sinclair, Goldman, Eastman, J. Hoover
“History is Being Made”—Goldman, Sinclair, Eastman, Foster, Trotsky
“End the Patriarchy”—Goldman & Eastman
“Thin Red Line/Hoover’s Maneuver—J. Hoover, Goldman, Eastman
“Taft v. UASR”—Taft, Foster, Brandeis
“Not For Me”—Goldman
“The Election of 1936”—Foster, Goldman, Sinclair, Roosevelt
“A Good Long Life”—Goldman, Eastman, Berkman
“Internationale/Requiem”—Full Company
“Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story”—Full Company
Musical Review: “Emma”
Alexandra Smirnova, Metropolis Arts Review, October 2015
Where can one hear the story of one of the Revolution’s most pivotal figures, told entirely through rap, hip-hop, and blues songs? In Emma, the new musical taking Broadway by storm this year, chronicling Goldman’s life from her birth in Rossiya through her immigration to America and subsequent radicalization, and her journey to become People’s Secretary for Labor in the nascent UASR government.
The Manhattan division of the Metropolis Theater Collective, known for its award-winning plays Newsies and Washington Place, have been working on this play for the past year, starting when current chairwoman and lead actor Lenina Miranda bought a copy of historian Nadezhda Meyer’s biography Emma: The Untold Story at an airport. Meyer, who acted as historical consultant for the play, has praised the production for both its historical accuracy and accessibility to the masses. “History too often has a tendency to be seen as a dry, boring field of study. I hope that this musical will renew interest in the history of our nation.”
Emma Goldman and hip-hop music are two things I would never expect to see together, but Miranda pulls it off perfectly. We see Goldman address her inner conflict of anarchist ideology and joining the revolutionary state to serve as the first People’s Secretary for Labor in “Take What You’ve Got,” and ultimately renounce anarchism in “Not For Me”.
Neither Miranda’s script nor Meyer’s original source material shy away from depicting Goldman’s bisexuality, or confirming her covert relationship with Eastman (Tracy Nicole). The two wax lyrical about both their love and devotion to feminism in “End the Patriarchy,” though they are not without their disagreements—most notably in the next song, “Thin Red Line,” where the issue of SecPubSafe’s growing power is raised.
The musical does not shy away from this or other uncomfortable truths of Foster’s authoritarian tendencies, though this gives us a fantastic rap battle between Taft and Foster, with Hughes mediating. Joseph Lane’s Leon Trotsky shoots off rapid-fire verses in Russian and English, alternately critical and hopeful towards the American socialist experiment. Hoover and MacArthur appear as almost cartoonish villains, though Kantor’s performance lends Hoover a certain quiet dignity. Groff’s portrayal of MacArthur rightly displays the fascist as an object of ridicule, hopelessly out of touch with the people; but also as an embodiment of bourgeois patriarchal entitlement.
Notably, a large proportion of the cast is made up of people of color, including the title character and director. Miranda stated that this was intended to represent “Revolutionary America then, played by Revolutionary America now”
The production ends with Goldman’s funeral, as each character comes forward and recounts the impact she made on their lives, and the lives of workers everywhere (Who Lives, Who Dies Who Tells Your Story). Before she passes, Goldman recognizes that she has no control over how she will be remembered, but she hopes to have lived a life worth remembering—something we should all aspire to.
Emma will be performing on Broadway for the foreseeable future, though tickets are sold out through December.
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[1] All of these are real Broadway actors, except Lenina Miranda, who is, of course, a genderbent version of Lin-Manuel Miranda (the creator of Hamilton)
@Ravenclaw had a pretty good alt-Hamilton:
Guys, I don't like being a back seat mod or anything like that, but can we please keep the thread on track? There are social threads if you want to talk with each other more or even by PM. I like seeing you guys contribute here but this is a thread dedicated to providing fan material for the Reds! universe.
I'm not trying to single anyone out but it's a trend I've noticed.
Is there a chance that the I.R.A has more of a Republican Marxist flavor than a Nationalist one?
My great-grandpa fought witht the original RA (then he got shot down by Nationalists in the Civil War) and he was one of Connolly's Republicans. I'd hate to see Ireland turn into the shitstorm it became today because of those Nationalist arseholes.
Is there a chance that the I.R.A has more of a Republican Marxist flavor than a Nationalist one?
My great-grandpa fought witht the original RA (then he got shot down by Nationalists in the Civil War) and he was one of Connolly's Republicans. I'd hate to see Ireland turn into the shitstorm it became today because of those Nationalist arseholes.
Frederick Forsyth's The Devil's Alternative,with IRA backed by Irish-Americans instead of Ukrainians?
Loved the book,'tho considering Forsyth is in the FBU their portrayal would be unsympathetic...
I was thinking of asking if I could post this in the main thread, with some modifications.The Death Factory (1945)
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sureI was thinking of asking if I could post this in the main thread, with some modifications.
What do you guys think?
Goodbye-Capitalism (1992)
Goodbye Capitalism (Adieu le capitalisme in Quebec) is Canadian film directed by Norman Jewison
I did love Goodbye Lenin, it was pretty awesome movie. My favorite part is when the main character goes to West Germany and finds a TV with porn on, along with the Coca-cola banner scene.