Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center — Page 9

there's no way Parade ends up playing at the Kennedy Center.

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."

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. 

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.

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… 

Coming this season…

Scott Baio IS Stanley Kowalski!

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. 

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.

Updated On: 2/24/25 at 07:43 PM

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/

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.

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.

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.