John Wilkes Booth To Attend Play!
 

... A jar containing a small piece of tissue from the body of John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln's killer, will be on display when the musical "Assassins" opens in Philadelphia.

The specimens will be on loan to the Arden Theatre from Philadelphia's Mutter Museum, which boasts a large collection of medical oddities ...


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Angry Abraham Lincoln declares from Heaven, "I still do not know how Our American Cousin ends!"

Booth's cervical bone to attend matinee later that week.

Photograph from 1865 production of Our American Cousin (moments before assassination)

Will Lincoln's hat be lying in wait for the Booth tissue to show?

Mexican Government to take bandit Joaquin Murrieta's pickled head to see Riverdance!

I am going to take this opportunity to cash in on the apparent missed opportunity to sing showtunes at the beach last weekend. Only I'm going to sing them about ASSASSINS!

Hey, pal. Feelin' blue?
Don't know what to do?
Hey pal... I mean you.
C'mere and kill a president!

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How could you do it, Johnny,
Calling it a cause?
You left a legacy
Of butchery
And treason we
Took eagerly,
And thought you'd get applause.

But traitors just get jeers and boos,
Not visits to their graves,
While Lincoln, who got mixed reviews,
Because of you, John, now gets only raves.

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I am nothing. You are... wind and water and sky... Jodie..
TELL me Jodie how I can earn your LOOOOOVE.
I would drink poison! I would move mountains! I would do anything for you!
What do you want me to do?

So, other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

I immediately envisioned a sceen from Futurama where his head in a glass jar attends the play, tucked under someones arm.



well..ok, something like that

GD and I saw a production of this at UCI years ago. Interesting show.

:eek: We did?

I didn't say it was memorable, just interesting.

Ok, am I the only person to find this disturbing?

http://joaquinmurrieta.com/_wsn/page2.html

(Scroll to the bottom bullet point.)

I wonder if they serve anything in pickle jars? :eek:

There are some good anecdotes from this play in Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation!

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