HAMILTON the musical CANCELLED from Kennedy Center 😂
(www.nytimes.com)
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Nobody cares Lin Manuel
Saw it in San Francisco with some liberal co-workers. Wanted to see what all the adulation was about. I found it trite, even boring and the music was mediocre at best.
THANK YOU. I get SO damn tired of the world at large throwing all of the accolades at this insipid piece of rap-infused theater trash. Talk about cultural appropriation. The only reason this fucking POS "musical" got popular is because it hit Broadway at the start of the wokeness wave.
But to be totally fair -- there ARE at least a few VERY talented people who were part of this show who's voices and work I do like, particularly Daveed Diggs and Leslie Odom, Jr. But for the most part, this show was PIFFLE.
And bottom line? Nobody gives any fucks if the producer is virtue-signal canceling a 2026 run at the KenCen. I'm quite sure Trump isn't losing any sleep over it.
I wondered why this thing was so big. A civilian contractor took her daughter to see it when I was active and was going on and on about it one day and I automatically just figured she was a commie lib because she liked a Broadway play. Was I wrong? Were they trying to push a message in it?
FWIW, I found the message is an attempt to rewrite US history by using only non-white actors (save for the British Monarch) and rap music to tell a story that pushes ideas of citizen entitlement without actual accomplishments and usury.
And for the rewrite history reason, I would never see it.
It’s a drop in a flood of misinformation. I have two kids aged 10 and 12. Most of the content they’ve seen in their lives on historical England is predominately black. I haven’t talked to them about it, but I would assume that they don’t question it (and why would they?). This is why they crack down so hard on dissent. We’re allowed to quietly disagree, but not publicly challenge the narrative. And when we’re gone this will become the new accepted version of history.
Think of how when the Rockefeller’s were swapping out natural cures with petroleum pharmaceuticals almost a century ago. It was probably crystal clear to many doctors at the time and they probably pushed back on it. But as they passed, there was no one left with the institutional memory to fight back. Now the doctors are amongst the most brainwashed of them all.
Don't really think the show's fans think the original historic players were black or brown. It just felt like they were pushing the character race swap business just to give white supremacy the air and be woke. I guess I'm old but I liked 1776, the musical way better and it had a most powerful message against slavery in one of its songs.
Most of the Gen Zers don't know history to begin with. I had a 20-something tell me that slavery was still around in the south until the 1965 Civil Rights Act came into play. Knew nothing about the Civil War and Lincoln. Got the 2 mixed up. It was cringe. Sheesh.
My neighbor is always talking how she took her daughter there a few times. Of course shea left AF. She went into depression and we didn’t see her for a week after Nov election.
Alexander Hamilton was a turncoat on Constitution. He was FOR a decentralized government and turned FOR a big centralized government after ratification. He was woke and that’s why the woke crowd loves him and made a mediocre play.
Yup. I actually wonder if Iluminati banker types got to him or he was always a self-serving hypocrite in need of power.
best part of it was King George, that's it.
Excellent! Show the movie Patton in its place.
Cue the “and we say bye bye” Trump gif
u/#byebye
Yea!!! Now do all the other venues, too!
What children. Family member is absolutely besotted with this musical. Raging lefty. She has asked me to watch it and managed around 15 minutes. Pitiful. To this day I have no idea why they carry on so much. It reminds me of Stockholm Syndrome where you sympathise with the oppressor. In this case they sympathise with the terrible plot etc. I think the mass hysteria is a mental disease like TDS.
I didn't know there were still enough idiots out there to keep Hamilton alive.
Good, the bar for the Kennedy Center should be very high anyways, top notch excellence.
Would love to see Lin Manuel Miranda arrested. I hope he is on the E list
Talk about a hack, his musicals are worse than the High School Musical movies
Any one of the broadway shows would be thrilled to perform in this venue. Broadway is having trouble drawing patrons with all the crime from the illegals up there. It won’t take the Kennedy center long to fill that opening.
It’s a difference of what is reported, here’s the chart shown on the article you referenced https://www.broadwayleague.com/research/statistics-broadway-nyc/ and here’s a couple articles about the decline https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/broadway-box-office-1235915277/ and https://www.davlermedia.com/why-did-broadway-lose-almost-a-third-of-a-million-theatergoers-last-year/ I think it is recovering and will come back as soon as Homan cleans it up.
Fake numbers = propaganda. NY has become famous for not reporting the truth.
Very dubious to be making statistical claims for crime when cities are now known for not reporting crimes that occur.
Not a NYC thing, it's an everywhere thing.
Your arguments don't hold water. NY and most, if not all blue states have been exposed for info manipulation, and corrupt governments only survive on their lies and propaganda.
Would love to deep dive; I'm convinced Hamilton is a CIA op to garner sympathy towards government debt
And to rewrite history to teach our young people that our Founding Fathers were people of color.
It's another example of the left's hypocrisy imo. They can't on one hand, complain about undermisrepresentation in film, complain now all the time when a minority is NOT played by a minority. Plus, they have to make every character a minority now, Little mermaid, etc. If it wasn't important why are they so loud about it? Probably because it does have an effect, even if subtle, on the narrative. And it's not even that subtle.
All ready gave away our Hamilton Tickets from our season tickets for Broadway Across America in Houston. Saw Hamilton once and did not care for it.
Based Houston anon, glad me and my wite are not the only ones.
Did US taxpayer dollars keep Hamilton open during COVID?
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION.
good for the world, imo.
Huge loss for society....not.
Can we say Hallelujah the witch is dead and their propaganda... lol
So that's what it took to get that POS off the stage!
Cry me a river....so glad this POS show stopped