I have been rewatching Hawkeye and we see that snippet of Rogers the Musical with that perfect cheesy show tune. That got me thinking about how that show would go in Universe, like as a show.
The number we saw “I could do this all day” is probably the mid act one show stopper about the Battle of New York. I could see a world where the show is mostly about his adventures in WW II and the Battle of New York was the finale but they specifically said they left halfway through so this number must be near the beginning which means the bulk of the show is about his present day life.
The big number before the intermission is probably Civil War with a set piece set in the Airport in Germany (complete with a giant Ant Man rising out from the stage I imagine).
The second act would condense the loss to Thanos and Victory over him. I could see the loss be the intermission break but I think that that would still be a big wound in the public psyche and a feel good musical would probably want to gloss over it respectfully and condense it to focus on the win at the end. Plus the break up of the Avengers works just as well as a midway low point for the character.
Here is the question though: how does the show end? How much does the public know about how the heroes won? We know they don’t know where Cap ended up for real (the rumor was he was on the Moon). We also have no idea how public the knowledge is of their time travel.
I could see the show end first with Rogers singing a lament for Tony Stark when Tony dies and then it ending with a triumphant song about beating Thanos. Or maybe it has literally a scene at the end where he goes to the moon like Joey Tribiani in Friends because this is what people think happened to him?
I have probably thought more about this than anyone in the world but it was a fun scene and I like Broadway shows.
Do we know that it was written in “modern times”? During WWII, there was that song-and-dance revue he was doing to sell bonds; maybe, with his revival, that took on retro appeal, and we’re seeing another number from the same show
If you have seen Hawkeye, it’s literally a Broadway number about the end of The Avengers complete with a singing and dancing Hulk, Iron Man etc. (And Ant Man who wasn’t even there ). It’s definitely a show written in the present.
This begs the question of how the public reacts to the end of Captain America: Winter Soldier where Natasha releases a mass of secret files detailing that a major part of the US intelligence apparatus and a covert paramilitary force that was not only behind the “Avengers Initiative” but hid evidence of alien invasions and controlled major strategic assets (including flying ‘helicarriers’, a worldwide collection of secret bases, multiple supersoldier development programs, and nuclear weapons, plus advanced weapons and bioengineering technology) has been run by a secret Nazi death cult for seventy years?Awkward.
In universe, I like to think that Ant-man was the source of a lot of the information used for the show - explaining why he’s shoehorned into the Battle of New York, and why Hawkeye gets short shrift (Ant-man didn’t interact much with him).
Rogers: The Musical is fine but what about an operetta about Manhattan’s own; a lawyer for the poor and indigent, fighting the forces of corporate corruption and ancient evil, a man who knows no fear? I am speaking, of course, of The Ballad of Foggy Nelson.
). It’s definitely a show written in the present.
