Hamilton - no longer coming to Kennedy Center

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Anonymous wrote:Why such an insecurity complex toward Hamilton?

Some snobs are dismissive of popular, quality theater, but want you to go see their edgy, off-off-Broadway spoken word production.

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Anonymous wrote:Why such an insecurity complex toward Hamilton?

Some snobs are dismissive of popular, quality theater, but want you to go see their edgy, off-off-Broadway spoken word production.

100% this. They are cringe-worthy!

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Anonymous wrote:I won’t go to KC until Trump and the rest of this “board” of degenerates are gone. It’s unfortunate because the KC is a gem and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every show and performance I’ve ever been to there. Over the last few years it’s been fun to introduce my kids to the KC, including to spectacular shows like Hamilton.

Hope other theaters will benefit from KC’s downswing.

I've struggled with this because I don't want to stop supporting the artists and crews who actually put the shows together and the day-to-day KC employees, most of whom I am sure are horrified by what's happened. (Or maybe more selfishly because I love going to the theater!) I'm certainly going to finish out the tickets I've already purchased for the season, but have been attending decked out in protest gear (normally I would dress up, but the idea of running into the Vances in an anti-Trump tee tickles me). Not sure whether I will make new ticket purchases going forward.

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Anonymous wrote:The Hamilton producers cancelled because Trump ideologues purged the professional staff and cancelled several existing events with performers because they didn't fit the Trump vision of what art should be. Lin Manuel Miranada took a stand against Trump and stuck up for the performing arts professionals, which is more than I can say about nearly everyone in Congress and all the billionaires kowtowing before Trump for fear of becoming slightly less rich.

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/06/nx-s1-5319979/hamilton-kennedy-center-cancel
The hit musical Hamilton is canceling its 2026 run at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This is in response to President Trump's decision to take over the art institution last month.

According to a statement by Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller on X, "The recent purge by the Trump Administration of both professional staff and performing arts events at or originally produced by the Kennedy Center flies in the face of everything this national center represents."

The statement goes on to explain that the move to cancel was a business decision, as it would've been "financially and personally devastating to the employees of Hamilton if the new leadership of the Kennedy Center suddenly cancelled or re-negotiated our engagement."

This was a ridiculous, attention-seeking move by Lin Manuel Miranda.

He should have kept producing Hamilton at the Kennedy Center because:
1) He should provide this opportunity to as many patrons as possible. Now is not the time to censor yourself.
2) Canceling because you believe someone "might" do something is not a provable harm done to you. Let the show run and if someone cancels your production, then you have a cause for damages.
3) Outside of ultra left-wing circles this looks like LMM did this to himself, and no one is up in arms about civil rights transgressions because factually there weren't any.

Oh please. The entire arts community has been wondering if Hamilton was going to be cancelled. The show already took a stand against Pence.

This was a smart business decision and you have to get billionaires in their pocketbooks.

They didn't get Trump or the KC in the pocketbook! The KC gets most of their funding from donations.

Now the most that Hamilton supporters can say is that they were "wondering if Hamilton might get canceled." They should have stayed and forced the issue. Then there would be a public outcry if they actually got canceled.

They are performing artists and crew, not your political props

After how they treat VP Pence they should have been run out of town.

Why must every one of you morons be functionally illiterate?

Of course, everyone is illiterate who doesn't agree with you, lol. No artist should single out and admonish an audience member.

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Anonymous wrote:Why such an insecurity complex toward Hamilton?

Exactly, who cares? Hamilton can hit the road!

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Anonymous wrote:The Hamilton producers cancelled because Trump ideologues purged the professional staff and cancelled several existing events with performers because they didn't fit the Trump vision of what art should be. Lin Manuel Miranada took a stand against Trump and stuck up for the performing arts professionals, which is more than I can say about nearly everyone in Congress and all the billionaires kowtowing before Trump for fear of becoming slightly less rich.

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/06/nx-s1-5319979/hamilton-kennedy-center-cancel
The hit musical Hamilton is canceling its 2026 run at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This is in response to President Trump's decision to take over the art institution last month.

According to a statement by Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller on X, "The recent purge by the Trump Administration of both professional staff and performing arts events at or originally produced by the Kennedy Center flies in the face of everything this national center represents."

The statement goes on to explain that the move to cancel was a business decision, as it would've been "financially and personally devastating to the employees of Hamilton if the new leadership of the Kennedy Center suddenly cancelled or re-negotiated our engagement."

This was a ridiculous, attention-seeking move by Lin Manuel Miranda.

He should have kept producing Hamilton at the Kennedy Center because:
1) He should provide this opportunity to as many patrons as possible. Now is not the time to censor yourself.
2) Canceling because you believe someone "might" do something is not a provable harm done to you. Let the show run and if someone cancels your production, then you have a cause for damages.
3) Outside of ultra left-wing circles this looks like LMM did this to himself, and no one is up in arms about civil rights transgressions because factually there weren't any.

Oh please. The entire arts community has been wondering if Hamilton was going to be cancelled. The show already took a stand against Pence.

This was a smart business decision and you have to get billionaires in their pocketbooks.

They didn't get Trump or the KC in the pocketbook! The KC gets most of their funding from donations.

Now the most that Hamilton supporters can say is that they were "wondering if Hamilton might get canceled." They should have stayed and forced the issue. Then there would be a public outcry if they actually got canceled.

They are performing artists and crew, not your political props

After how they treat VP Pence they should have been run out of town.

Why must every one of you morons be functionally illiterate?

Of course, everyone is illiterate who doesn't agree with you, lol. No artist should single out and admonish an audience member.

No, you are illiterate because you can't even write a single thought or a sentence.

Also, no one treated Pence worse than your ilk on Jan 6. NO ONE!

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, who cares. That show is awful.

Well, I don't know that is awful but I know there are people who shrug after seeing it.
It has shock value here but it's not exactly making a grand international tour.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, who cares. That show is awful.

Well, I don't know that is awful but I know there are people who shrug after seeing it.
It has shock value here but it's not exactly making a grand international tour.

Why would it be popular internationally?

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Anonymous wrote:What a bummer. More destruction from our current admin!

https://apnews.com/article/hamilton-kennedy-center-4985f0e826e3dfb648f34fdd6d88d7b6

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Vastly overrated.

I see the uncultured, boorish Hamilton haters have joined the chat.

There’s a reason Trump loves the uneducated and the uncultured. He will do his level best to create many more.

So not liking idiotic rap (crap) means you are uncultured now?
Btw, Hamilton removed themselves from the Kennedy center line up, not President Trump.
The true definition of triggered. They did it to themselves.

They did it because of the changes Trump made to the board you idiot. They 100% would have come if it wasn't for Trump.

Biden appointed board members before he stepped down, but they were ok with that..good riddance then to Hamilton.

The Board has historically been bipartisan. 36 board members are appointed by the president for a six-year term. There is nothing unusual about a president filling those vacancies, even near the end of his term. Trump himself did so near the end of his first term (and after it was clear he was a lame duck): https://deadline.com/2020/12/donald-trump-kennedy-center-board-of-trustees-1234652321/. Removing those members before the end of their term is completely unprecedented, and doing so to pack a board (on which Trump's appointees were already well-represented) full of your own partisans is shocking.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, who cares. That show is awful.

Well, I don't know that is awful but I know there are people who shrug after seeing it.
It has shock value here but it's not exactly making a grand international tour.

Why would it be popular internationally?

If it had a compelling story? Good actors, good director, good music?
You know, kind of like Lion King, Moulin Rouge, Les Miserables...

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Anonymous wrote:Why such an insecurity complex toward Hamilton?

Exactly, who cares? Hamilton can hit the road!

Name another show that will bring in as much money? The KC is failing and broke.

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Anonymous wrote:Why such an insecurity complex toward Hamilton?

Exactly, who cares? Hamilton can hit the road!

Name another show that will bring in as much money? The KC is failing and broke.

Springtime for Hitler.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, who cares. That show is awful.

Well, I don't know that is awful but I know there are people who shrug after seeing it.
It has shock value here but it's not exactly making a grand international tour.

Why would it be popular internationally?

We saw it in London and it was very popular. Tickets were hard to come by.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, who cares. That show is awful.

Well, I don't know that is awful but I know there are people who shrug after seeing it.
It has shock value here but it's not exactly making a grand international tour.

Why would it be popular internationally?

If it had a compelling story? Good actors, good director, good music?
You know, kind of like Lion King, Moulin Rouge, Les Miserables...

It does have a compelling story but it is a very uniquely American story. The rest of the world doesn't really care about American politicians the way you think they should.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, who cares. That show is awful.

Well, I don't know that is awful but I know there are people who shrug after seeing it.
It has shock value here but it's not exactly making a grand international tour.

Why would it be popular internationally?

If it had a compelling story? Good actors, good director, good music?
You know, kind of like Lion King, Moulin Rouge, Les Miserables...

It does have a compelling story but it is a very uniquely American story. The rest of the world doesn't really care about American politicians the way you think they should.

I don't think the rest of the world should care about American politics.
But they do seem interested in a good show. Not a meh show.