Shouldn’t “whiteface” be banned, too?
If I wanted to watch a compelling musical about the founding fathers, I'd pop in a copy of the film 1776.
My daughters love Broadway musicals. They made me go see one and I nearly fell asleep. It did absolutely nothing for me.
I don’t get the appeal of musicals period, but Hamilton especially. Revising history is horrible.
Because it is a minstrel show but politically correct so people don’t have to feel bad about being racist.
Prove me wrong, that is the hype is all about.
Seriously, it's like some bizarre religious thing for them. They'll spend thousands on tickets and then post pictures of themselves at the show on social media, then all their liberal friends have to post about how jealous they are, or how they've seen it like seven times and they would cut off their big toe to see it again. They are so freaking weird about it.
It’s about the guy who gave us the Electoral College.
Word.
The Last Samurai.
i am looking forward to seeing it, but by the time it gets to my off broadway town, the only people playing the multiethnic roles, will be overweight white guys from the community theater.
i believe it is an interesting interpretation of american history, and not a rewriting as some have suggested... a nice allegory for we are all americans.
I don’t know why they like it. I have no desire to see anything praising Hamilton, who was a source of some of the great collectivist evil in the country today.
I am only dimly aware of it from media. Sounds like a negro version of a blackface skit.
The casting call for “Hamilton” specifically said that white actors were NOT to apply. Nice.......
Talk about “cultural appropriation”, what a joke!!!
I will NEVER go to see Hamilton. Lin Manuel Miranda is a bonafide leftist racist. He has nothing to say that I want to hear.
I am not going to sit and listen to black actors rapping, hip-hopping and ghetto-izing our Founding Fathers.
Is this like that ROOTS musical where they re-cast all the characters with white actors? Maybe I’m mis-remembering it.
I’ll bet they don’t cover Hamilton’s suggestion of “citizen at birth” being rejected for the more stringent “natural born citizen” because the founders sought to exclude the children of foreign nationals from being President.
People like Barack Obama.
Id like a brave director to do Roots with an all whit cast. I wonder if the enlightened liberals would be so welcoming.
“She says she won’t talk to me until I check out the show for myself instead of “pre-judging it””
Tell her you’ll go see Hamilton as soon as they make a musical where MLK is played by a white woman.
I was invited here in L.A. MULTIPLE TIMES. I didnt care much about it nor do I need to be lectured by asshole leftard actors who hated on Pence and rightwingers like myself.
Of course I did not say that. Idiots who go watch it are EITHER white liberals who have liberal white guilt OR non-whites who hate whitey and this is their comfort zone.
In addition, your “friend” is a moron. I have had leftards “argue” with the words “fact” (they always say this) and they throw an argument that if you dont “try it”, you;re a bigot.
Nice try.
The reality is that no one would hate the show more than Hamilton himself.
Hamilton was brash, witty, supremely intelligent, with an appeal that cut across all boundaries in America.
He personified the American Revolution in a way that no other human being has ever done, save one. Donald J Trump
Its all about virtue signaling.
Ohhh, YOU saw Hamilton? Oh, so cool..oooohhhh?
Simple things for simple people.