i hope Mr Pence learned a valuable lesson from this
Posted on 11/21/2016 3:42:37 AM PST by Kaslin
Recently, “Love Trumps Hate” bullies, afflicted with a perverted sense of self-righteousness participated in a weighted battle by luring in, and then ambushing, Mike Pence. It happened when the unsuspecting Vice President-elect decided to take in a leisurely performance of the highly acclaimed musical production of Hamilton.
In addition to incorporating rap, hip-hop, R&B, and pop into the Tony-award winning score, by pretending our founding fathers weren’t white, Hamilton embraces a revisionist version of ethnic and racial history.
In fact, choosing to cast white historical figures with non-white actors may be the reason our racially divisive president is such a huge fan of the play.
In any case, lead producer Jeffrey Seller, had this to say about Hamilton’s choice to waylay a “Helpless” Mr. Pence:
We had to ask ourselves, how do we cope with this? Our cast could barely go on stage the day after the election. The election was painful and crushing to all of us here. We all struggled with what was the appropriate and respectful and proper response. We are honored that Mr. Pence attended the show, and we had to use this opportunity to express our feelings.
This sort of juvenile sniveling comes from a company of performers that pride themselves on chronicling the grit, bravery, and struggles exhibited by the heroes of our early republic. Therefore, maybe someone needs to inform the cast of Hamilton that a Broadway musical’s purpose is not to make a cowardly partisan proclamation that Alexander Hamilton would probably react to with complete disdain – it’s to entertain.
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Non-whites were discouraged to audition.
1) Isn’t the whole “Hamilton” production a massive pile of cultural appropriation? Is that only a problem when “whites” do the appropriating?
2) What sort of government would “non-whites” of the period have created?
Separate but equal!
i hope Mr Pence learned a valuable lesson from this
Hamilton, The Musical “has no clothes”
having looked up the play and criticism of its lack of historical accuracy, it would appear this is just an issue of hype rather than actual quality of play.
IOW political correctness to force sales.
That would be great - especially if it caught ones an audience participation thing and just kept rolling, a~la The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The Hamilton pric* was on the news this morning. I changed the channel.
Where is Aaron Burr when you need him?
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Mike Pence to his daughter at the play .... sorry, dude.
When my parents spent the bulk of their post-WWII honeymoon in NYC, theater tickets were priced at 4.40, 6.60, and 8.80. Even factoring the 2000 percent inflation since then, the face prices for Hamilton tickets are exorbitant; scalper prices are worse.
Solution: Don’t go to plays or movies, download Netflix, subscribe to Sirius XM, or watch TV.
As gauche as it is to single out an audience member for a personal lecture, I support their right to to so. They’re selling a product, just like the NFL is. If people don’t like what they’re doing, they can decline to support it. Let the free market rule.
Yes, but not an after the fact rant at an entertainment event. If the tickets came with a warning, then OK. However, Gov. Pence had no chance to make a decision beforehand to attend or forego. It’s called having some decency and class.
No one knew Kaepernick was going to kneel during the anthem and since then, there have been repeat incidents. No warnings on tickets. People have voted with their feet as ticket sales and viewing are off quite a bit. That’s how it should work.
I said it was gauche, but the Pences are not snowflakes and incidents like this show the true colors of the left, so let the show go on.
Americans will decide whether or not to patronize such idiocy.
Let’s have a play that uses whites to play the parts of Malcom X and MLK. Have them sing and dance, maybe do a little jig.
The crybaby from the cast was on CBS this morning saying all they did was have a conversation with Pence. Liberals think a conversation occurs when they lecture and then run away.
Yes, they will bring their traveling liberal show to the failed dem cities where they will be appreciated.
A traveling caucasian minstrel show, how progressive. Racial role reversals are very in these days.
“Why would ANYONE attend such a moronic event..?”..
Like everything else the liberal whiners do, it’s all an act anyway and VP Pence knew that going in. Once it was over he probably considered it a big waste of time anyway.
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