Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center- Page 9
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#200
Posted: 2/21/25 at 9:27pm
Parade should probably start making contingencies to play elsewhere.
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#201
Posted: 2/21/25 at 9:36pm
there's no way Parade ends up playing at the Kennedy Center.
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#202
Posted: 2/21/25 at 9:45pm
Kennedy Center has the following musicals lined-up:
- Les Miserables (June 11 - July 13)
- Legally Blonde (June 11 - 22)
- Sesame Street (July 10 - Aug. 31)
- Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern (July 22 - Aug. 3)
- Parade (Aug. 19 - Sept. 7)
- The Sound of Music (Sept. 9 - 28)
Let's see how many of these shows actually go up and does the KC even announce their 2025-26 line-up?
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#203
Posted: 2/21/25 at 9:48pm
I'm sure the dolts running the Sound of Music and Parade runs are like, "Well, we're actually making a subversive statement doing this at Kennedy Center because etc, etc."
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#204
Posted: 2/21/25 at 9:50pm
Welp, there goes Eureka Day.
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#205
Posted: 2/21/25 at 9:52pm
ACL2006 said: "Kennedy Center has the following musicals lined-up:
- Les Miserables (June 11 - July 13)
- Legally Blonde (June 11 - 22)
- Sesame Street (July 10 - Aug. 31)
- Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern (July 22 - Aug. 3)
- Parade (Aug. 19 - Sept. 7)
- The Sound of Music (Sept. 9 - 28)
Let's see how many of these shows actually go up and does the KC even announce their 2025-26 line-up?"
They can keep Sound of Music and just tweak so Nazis are the heroes.
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#206
Posted: 2/21/25 at 10:00pm
Was Jeffrey Finn let go? I don't recall any news of that happening, but I can't seem to find his name on the websites leadership page.
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#207
Posted: 2/22/25 at 8:09pm
Ticket sales drop 50% in the week after Trump takeover; several artists considering cancelation of performances
Anyone who cancels should blame the low ticket sales. That'll drive Trump even crazier.
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#208
Posted: 2/22/25 at 9:33pm
Call_me_jorge said: "Ugh, he’dprobably rename it to the Trump Center, just cuz."
Only if he can find a way to charge for the licensing
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/05
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#209
Posted: 2/22/25 at 9:52pm
Cannot wait to get tickets to the opening gala for the J6 Choir recital… UGH… or Dean Cain in that Obamagate play about Peter Strock and Lisa Page…
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#210
Posted: 2/22/25 at 10:35pm
SFFrontRow said: "Cannot wait to get tickets to the opening gala for the J6 Choir recital… UGH… or Dean Cain in that Obamagate play about Peter Strock and Lisa Page…"
and a lavish revival of Paris is Out!
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#211
Posted: 2/22/25 at 11:28pm
Coming this season…
Scott Baio IS Stanley Kowalski!
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#212
Posted: 2/24/25 at 6:06pm
SF musical act disinvited from Kennedy Center with one-sentence email
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/musical-act-disinvited-kennedy-center-20185103.php
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#213
Posted: 2/24/25 at 6:17pm
While I feel sorry for art lovers in or near DC (including myself): **** the Kennedy Center. Let it go down like a Trump casino. I will not support this venue again until he is gone. I'm sorry if that means the loss of employment for staff at the KC, but under this administration, they'd be fired regardless.
As Kad so presciently points out, many not-for-profits had to survive with only public support from 2016-2020 (and probably well into the Biden-term). The call is clear: support local theater. I am not a DC resident but will be donating to Arena Stages for the fist time. F*CK these weird creeps.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/04
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#214
Posted: 2/24/25 at 7:29pm
ACL2006 said: "Kennedy Center has the following musicals lined-up:
- Les Miserables (June 11 - July 13)
- Legally Blonde (June 11 - 22)
- Sesame Street (July 10 - Aug. 31)
- Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern (July 22 - Aug. 3)
- Parade (Aug. 19 - Sept. 7)
- The Sound of Music (Sept. 9 - 28)
Let's see how many of these shows actually go up and does the KC even announce their 2025-26 line-up?"
Every last one of these shows should cancel.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#215
Posted: 2/24/25 at 7:43pm
Canceling is easier said than done. These contracts are drawn up a year+ in advance and it's tough to cancel anything on-subscription.
I certainly expect Cameron to continue on with LES MIS's engagement.
I feel awful for all the actors and crews who have to deal with the new regime, and all the employees who are trying to stick it out (at least till they can get a job somewhere else).
From a schadenfreude standpoint, I hope the Trump admin and these philistines brought in to run it realize how tough it is to run a fiscally-sound arts institution!
It's good news for Nederlander who controls the National, which has always been something of a second-banana to the KenCen.
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#216
Posted: 2/24/25 at 10:04pm
So, will they cancel the run of Legally Blonde because of "There! Right There!"?
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#217
Posted: 2/25/25 at 5:39pm
Kennedy Center confirms Conan O'Brien event to continue on schedule
O’Brien said in 2023 that Trump was “bad for comedy.”
“You can’t parody something that already has that crazy, irregular shape. It’s not possible,” the former “Tonight Show” host told Kara Swisher.
“So I always thought that when Trump came along, what a lot of people had to revert to is, ‘Doesn’t he suck? I hate that guy. He’s an a‑‑hole.’ And those aren’t jokes,” O’Brien said.
“That’s his greatest crime, that he’s hurt political comedy by being so outlandish himself,” O’Brien, 61, said.
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5163201-kennedy-center-conan-obrien-mark-twain-prize-trump/
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#218
Posted: 2/25/25 at 6:01pm
The president doesn’t, traditionally, attend the mark twain prize ceremony. I’m sure that has something to do with it being kept.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#219
Posted: 2/25/25 at 6:23pm
uncageg said: "So, will they cancel the run of Legally Blonde because of "There! Right There!"?"
No, because the gay foreigner is the butt of the joke. He probably didn't even come into the country legally.
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#220
Posted: 2/25/25 at 9:25pm
I know it's easy to say this because it's not my livelihood that's on the line, but I'm going to lose a little bit of respect for anyone who's involved in a performance at the Kennedy Center while this nonsense is going on.
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#221
Posted: 2/25/25 at 10:33pm
chewy5000 said: "uncageg said: "So, will they cancel the run of Legally Blonde because of "There! Right There!"?"
No, because the gay foreigner is the butt of the joke. He probably didn't even come into the country legally."
Yeah, I have a lot of fondness for the musical, but it is VERY much a product of our time in the whole "we're obviously well meaning liberals, so we can make some questionable gay/ethnic jokes in good humor" thing.
I did an outdoor production in 2020 that changed Sundeep Padamadan's name to something Russian, to play him as an oligarch instead of an "Indian warlord's son." Given the state of politics at the time, it made more sense to poke fun at the Russians than the Indians for being classless brutes. Was it MTI legal? Probably not, but at least it wasn't racist.
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#222
Posted: 2/26/25 at 10:38am
MezzA101 said: "Actors Equity Condemns Trump-Run Kennedy Center for Canceling Children’s Musical ‘Finn’: ‘Beyond Appalling’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/actors-equity-condemns-trump-run-231247916.html"
Andrew Rannells, Lea Salonga, Kelli O'Hara to lead performance of FINN: THE MUSICAL at Town Hall in New York City
Streisand Effect never misses!
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Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#223
Posted: 2/26/25 at 10:47am
Matt Rogers said: "ACL2006 said: "Kennedy Center has the following musicals lined-up:
- Les Miserables (June 11 - July 13)
- Legally Blonde (June 11 - 22)
- Sesame Street (July 10 - Aug. 31)
- Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern (July 22 - Aug. 3)
- Parade (Aug. 19 - Sept. 7)
- The Sound of Music (Sept. 9 - 28)
Let's see how many of these shows actually go up and does the KC even announce their 2025-26 line-up?"
Every last one of these shows should cancel."
I would imagine that Parade will go forward because the new regime likes its happy ending.
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