PM:
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-Award winning Hamilton has canceled their production at the Kennedy Center after President Donald Trump fired most of the board and took over as Chair. “We’re not going to be part of it while it the Trump Kennedy Center,” Miranda said. Miranda wrote the show and originated the role of Hamilton.
Hamilton was going to be part of the art center’s sesquicentennial celebration in honor of the nation’s 250th birthday, which is a priority for the Trump administration. Hamilton, which is a retelling of the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton, is a rap musical that requires the cast to be comprised of non-white people playing the parts of historical persons who were white. It has been criticized by the left for being overly patriotic just as it’s been critiqued on the right for not being patriotic enough.
“This latest action by Trump means it’s not the Kennedy Center as we knew it,” Miranda said, per The New York Times. “The Kennedy Center was not created in this spirit, and we’re not going to be part of it while it is the Trump Kennedy Center. We’re just not going to be part of it.”
Ric Grennell, who has been appointed as Interim Executive Director of the Kennedy Center, posted on X that Miranda had gone first to The New York Times “before they came to the Kennedy Center with their announcement that they can’t be in the same room with Republicans. This is a publicity stunt that will backfire,” he said. “The Arts are for everyone – not just for the people who Lin likes and agrees with. The American people need to know that @Lin_Manuel is intolerant of people who don’t agree with him politically. It’s clear he and Sellers don’t want Republicans going to their shows. Americans see you, Lin.”
The great awaking has arrived.
Oh no!
Anyway…
Just when you ask yourself, can it get any better, this headline pops up.
Ain’t tired of winning yet, keep em coming.
Good 👍🏻 !
the same Kennedy Center that received $25 million dollars in 2020 during covid, then closed and laid off workers. They didn’t lay off any office staff, just the ‘workers.’ Where did that money go?
“The center also confirmed that while no staff had been fired, 279 full-time employees were furloughed and 725 part-time staff members, such as restaurant and parking staff, “are not working at this time due to the Center’s closure”. They added: “The Kennedy Center is continuing to cover the costs of health benefits for all staff, including furloughed staff.”
Chalk up another win.
Aaron Burr should be on Mount Rushmore for killing this elitist monarchist prick.
Good. Hamilton was WHITE, a supporter of criminal central banking, and should NEVER be honored in any way. He helped lay the foundation for the tyranny we suffer under today.
Oh no! Now what are eletists going to do for circuses?
BTW: can we sell that too? Operating costs are disproportionately high.
Sooo… I don’t get to go to the Kennedy Center and pay hundreds of dollars to watch some queer coloreds playing at being straight whites? Jaysus! No cultural enrichment for me! I’m feeling kind of deplorable now.
a rap musical
GMAFB
I’ll file this under win/win.
The shows at the Kennedy Center aren’t there for us.
Most of us couldn’t afford it and you couldn’t pay me enough to hob nob with the majority of those attending there.
Good riddance to bad trash.
RAP is not MUSIC!
Kudos to Rick Grenell. Plain speaking has been at a standstill for far too long.