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[quote=Anonymous]This is no different from the person who waits the rope line for hours and shakes hands with the president as he walks by and takes the opportunity to say something personal to him--"Sir, I hope you will consider how your policies on x affect people like me"--or whatever.

ANYONE who has any kind of access to powerful people can use that access to try to get a message across. Rich businessmen get to sit down with powerful politicians and make their case. In fact, they get invited to. Most of the rest of us never get such an opportunity.

There is nothing inappropriate about the cast, director, creator, and producer using their opportunity to send a message. They were asked for tickets. They could have said, "No, we don't want him here," or "Too bad, I'm not going out of my way to arrange tickets for that man."

Instead, they said, "Yes. Please come into our house and watch this performance that is actually ABOUT the experience of a poor, bastard, orphan immigrant to America who became a founding father of the country, that is performed by people of a variety of colors, creeds, ethnicities, and orientations. Please come, because we think this play embodies our hope for our country and we fear you aren't getting the message. And just in case you don't get the message, we will respectfully tell you after the show that, to us, this isn't just an opportunity to entertain but an opportunity to send a message about where this country came from and how we see it. That is why I, LMM, wrote the play and why the rest of us are happy to be a part of it. We think this is important and we hope you will see why and understand why we are concerned."[/quote]

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