¿Macavity? said: "BroadwayConcierge said: "That's fair, guys. I still stand by my "everybody should be able to peacefully go to the theatre"
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I agree. I honestly think that what that cast did was rude. I can't stand Pence, I think he's a real low-life, but if he payed for admission they shouldn't harass him. Rude. JMO.
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Did he pay $700 plus and get the ticket from Ticketmaster the way you would or did he get the ticket because of his vp-elect status? If the latter, he was attending the show as a vp-elect not a common theatergoer.
MichelleCraig said: "May have already been answered...hard to keep up here...but yes, according to The New York Times, tickets for Pence were purchased...
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The question is, weren't he the vp-elect, would he still be able to purchase the ticket?
He called to the show's office in the afternoon to get his tickets. Good to hear he paid for them. But ordinary folks like us cannot call the office in the afternoon of the show to get tickets! Buy tickets months in advance, cancellation line, lottery, resell...that's how we go about it. Since he is VP Elect he got tickets that way, otherwise no way!!!
Dancingthrulife2 said: "fbueller, did you vote for Trump? Is this why you've been so upset"
Dancingthrulife2--Not at all. I am a Democrat and voted for Hillary. It was just so wrong and inappropriate for a statement to be made at any type of performance to an audience member for no reason.
When an audience member is causing a distraction or speaking out of turn, it is appropriate for a performer to heckle and be proactive to stop the inappropriate talking or behavior. This wasn't the case at all here, however. The VP elect simply attended the show to take as a regular audience member. The cast was completely out of line. It was the same as if he would have attended a comedy club show and been heckled for no reason by the comic on stage.
The question is, weren't he the vp-elect, would he still be able to purchase the ticket?
Prior to the election he may have been able to get House seats for being on the Republican ticket. Sanders got House seats during the primary season. So I think it's not being VP-elect specifically that got them for him, but it's still his political position.
Mark Harris at Vulture wrote a nice essay about what happened:
"Little incidents can come packed with big meaning. The Hamilton episode touched on LGBTQ issues, which were shamefully underdiscussed during the campaign and remain so now. It touched on immigration; on race; on the impact and value of protest speech; on the president-elect’s temperament; on his demands for opponents to capitulate; on his disdain for First Amendment freedoms (his quartet of Hamilton tweets was consistent with his post-election attacks on public protestors and on the New York Times); and on the worries of several large populations that the Trump administration will demonize them and make them less safe...
What [Trump] doesn’t understand is that anybody who walks through the doors of a theater should be prepared to have preconceptions challenged, beliefs questioned, certitudes shaken, ideas adjusted, worldviews broadened, and perspectives shifted. People who consider that a threat to their safety should probably stay away from theater and the rest of popular culture altogether. For the rest of us, that’s not only safe, it’s essential."
I still can't get past Trump demanding an apology from the Hamilton cast. Is this really what the next four years are going to be like? Barking orders to private citizens via tweets? The guy is a lunatic. None of this is a surprise, but it just gets sadder by the minute.
god, Trump supporters truly are the cancer of American society. Stupid, brainless, idiotic .. what other adjective? oh right, to quote Mrs Clinton, 'a basket of deplorables.." LOL
broadwayguy91 said: "god, Trump supporters truly are the cancer of American society. Stupid, brainless, idiotic .. what other adjective? oh right, to quote Mrs Clinton, 'a basket of deplorables.." LOL
What really divides the country is beliefs some people hold that go against the very ideals upon which it was founded and serve to justify their myopic vision of greatness and mask their jingoistic vanity.
Dancingthrulife2 said: "What really divides the country is beliefs some people hold that go against the very ideals upon which it was founded and serve to justify their myopic vision of greatness and mask their jingoistic vanity.
Well now you're just word vomiting all over the place. Someone get a mop.