Posted on 11/16/2020 2:43:14 PM PST by EdnaMode
Tony Award-nominated actor Chad Kimball, among Broadway’s first wave of performers to contract the coronavirus last spring, is finding little support among his Broadway colleagues after he pledged to “respectfully disobey” Washington State COVID-19 guidelines limiting religious services and participation.
Kimball, a Seattle native, star of the hit, now-suspended, Broadway musical Come From Away and Tony-nominated for his performance in 2011’s Memphis, tweeted his opposition to Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s newly announced wide-ranging anti-COVID restrictions that, among other measures, limit religious services to 25% indoor occupancy or no more than 200 people, with face coverings required at all times.
Kimball, who became sickened with COVID-19 last March, took particular issue with Inslee’s restrictions on singing during religious services. Under the new guidelines, “no choir, band, or ensemble shall perform during the service. Vocal or instrumental soloists are permitted to perform, and vocal soloists may have a single accompanist.”
“Congregation singing,” under the new guidelines, also is prohibited, and all congregation members and attendees must wear facial coverings.
Responded the actor in yesterday’s tweet, “Respectfully, I will never allow a Governor, or anyone, to stop me from SINGING, let alone sing in worship to my God. Folks, absolute POWER corrupts ABSOLUTELY. This is not about safety. It’s about POWER. I will respectfully disobey these unlawful orders.”
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Broadway’s Frozen star Patti Murin tweeted, “No one said you can’t sing. You can sing. Alone. In your own home. Possibly for the rest of your life, after this tweet.”
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Glad to know there is one sane person on Broadway. Patti Murin wants him locked up over it. Insane. Meanwhile Broadway will probably never recover from the lockdowns.
Defiance not compliance.
Oh my doodness dwacious! BACKLASH! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!! Somebody might say mean things on Facebook! Twitter might not like me! Social media!
Glad to see there’s one Broadway person who’s not a 5-letter word for “cat” beginning with “P”.
This country is filled to the brim with nosy control freaks.
Don’t tell me how to run my own life.
That’s it for us.
We’re doing Thanksgiving with my son.
Period.
End of story.
Effin’ Broadway idiots. I don’t know either one, but kudos to the one with a conscience and the guts to stand by it. The ditzy chick? She should cut her vocal cords - that way, she’;; never sing even by accident
So even someone presumed to be immune must comply with health restrictions? That seems a pretty slam-dunk legal argument, potentially up to attempted enslavement.
His career is over. You think Hollywood is bad. Broadway is full of communists.
Thats funny.
So few people know the story behind that Texas flag. THe only reason I know is because I discovered a relative was involved in the event.
They buried the cannon to keep it from Mexico. Similar to another of my relatives involved with burying cannons during the Revolution
Me? I just sit in a chair and type
Printing that :)
Yup. Hopefully he can find work in another city.
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