Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center- Page 9

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 2/21/25 at 9:27pm

Parade should probably start making contingencies to play elsewhere.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 2/21/25 at 9:36pm

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

[ACL2006]

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?

[verywellthensigh]

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."

[DiscoCrows]

Posted: 2/21/25 at 9:50pm

Welp, there goes Eureka Day.

[sppunk]

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. 

[Call_me_jorge]

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.

[KevinKlawitter]

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.

[JustAnotherNewYorker]

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 

Updated On: 2/22/25 at 09:33 PM

[SFFrontRow]

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… 

[KevinKlawitter]

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!

[JSquared2]

Posted: 2/22/25 at 11:28pm

Coming this season…

Scott Baio IS Stanley Kowalski!

[MezzA101]

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

[Play Esq.]

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. 

[Matt Rogers]

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. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

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.

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

[uncageg]

Posted: 2/24/25 at 10:04pm

So, will they cancel the run of Legally Blonde because of "There! Right There!"?

[MezzA101]

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/

[Call_me_jorge]

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.

[chewy5000]

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.

[kdogg36]

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. 

[darquegk]

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.

[KevinKlawitter]

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!

[Back Row]

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.

 

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 3/5/25 at 5:50pm

HAMILTON cancels planned Kennedy Center engagement: "it’s not the Kennedy Center as we knew it... The Kennedy Center was not created in this spirit, and we’re not going to be a part of it while it is the Trump Kennedy Center."