Talk:Our American Cousin

Garbage
Half of this "article" is about the Lincoln Assassination, not about the play. Obviously it merits mentioning in passing, but not half the article. Typical wikiality, using gamed google rankings to steal website hits away from other quality sites. -- 21:45, 21 January 2008 86.149.142.91


 * The play is now mostly remembered for the Licoln connection (obviously). AnonMoos (talk) 18:49, 5 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Had Lincoln not been assassinated during a performance of this play, I wonder if it would even have an entry at all. I would be interested if this play is still permormed anymore.--RLent (talk) 17:43, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

There's only one paragraph about it, but because of the assassination, information about what part of the play he was shot and what happened afterwards is important. It's also how this play is really known, as RLent says. That's why it's in there.

I'll try to add some information if I'm up to it (or can find any) about this play and clean the article up a bit. Indianparttime2 (talk) 01:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Considering the Lincoln article states it was already famous before he was assassinated it probly would be notable if he hadnt been but we can never know i guess--69.146.146.25 (talk) 04:03, 26 December 2009 (UTC)


 * http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/11/13/family-guy-whistle-while-your-wife-works/ is the family guy citation —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.6.20.107 (talk) 02:42, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Apparently the original playbill didn't have Lincoln's name on it. The playbill pictured is a reproduction. See this source for an example. 96.236.133.187 (talk) 17:06, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Playbill photo
According to http://boothiebarn.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/the-assassination-playbills/, citing two published sources, the playbill depicted in the photo is at best a reproduction or at worst a forgery. I have updated the caption accordingly. 98.213.192.103 (talk) 20:38, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Title
In the ad for this play at Ford's Theater in the Washington Evening Star of April 14, 1865, page 1, which you can see here, the title given is "The American Cousin". deisenbe (talk) 12:46, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Twilight Zone sentence removed
Under "Popular Culture", I'm removing the following sentence: "In the 1961 Twilight Zone episode Back There, the star tries to stop the assassination of Lincoln who is attending this play that night." In that episode, the person who tries to stop the assassination is a time traveler from the present, not the star of the play. (If "star" was meant to describe the star of the TZ episode, instead of the play, it still doesn't belong IMO. The episode doesn't deal specifically with the play itself.  The TZ reference properly belongs on the Lincoln assassination page, if it's not already there.)  Elsquared (talk) 08:24, 20 December 2020 (UTC)