They're not obligated to perform in your venue.

America, land of the free, remember?

Founding Fathers rapping! Women playing soldiers! Contributions of immigrants celebrated! Women playing a critical role in the founding of the nation!

I can just see Grenell trying to book them and then demanding, "There's just a few parts we want you to rewrite, OK?"

teehee

Springtime for Hitler - The true story of an unappreciated genius!

It would really draw in the MAGA crowds.

Youngsters, I'll share you the need to google:

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/02/08/383279630/100-years-later-whats-the-legacy-of-birth-of-a-nation

INDEED!!!!!!

They'd probably demand a walk-on solo spot for Lee Greenwood too!

Hamilton was wildly successful and made lots of money - remember money lightens skin, removes accents, and forgives any past immigration transgressions.

Just in case it's needed

This clown is "judging" artistic merit and accomplishment. He would have been quite comfortable in 1934 Germany. Excuse me while I go and vomit.



Just some background on this spineless, feckless backstabber of all things involving Gay and Transgender rights:

*During the 2016 Republican primaries, Grenell warned his Twitter followers about Donald Trump, describing him as "unserious", "reckless", and "dangerous". Grenell deleted all of his negative tweets about Trump after Trump became the Republican nominee. Grenell then began praising Trump regularly on Fox News and on Twitter.[34]

*Wikipedia

Seems like all Republicans obsessed with opposing gay and trans rights are.

Seems not to be married, though, which I infer from Wikipedia's use of "domestic partner" rather than "husband" for his partner, who is named there.

I don't care enough to check on that, though.

He's above all of that flotsam and jetsam. Just like Peter Thiel. Another

Just like Stephen miller looks like Goebbels.

tRUMP bootlicker.

They care how the leadership of venues treat people, as should we all.

or the Arts?
Go count your consulting fees from Viktor Orbán!

"We get the job done!"

This is gaslighting to the fox audience, it's not even intended for you.
I wish people would understand this simple fact about repubs. - They're not talking to you!
They don't care if you find it stupid, clownish, ignorant or whatever, they don't care what you say about it.
The intention is gaslighting their ignorant base, not communicating with anyone outside that.

He's passing out today's 'Talking Points for Idiots' - preparing the cult for when they go out into the 'real world' and find that THEY are the idiots and that they are blind to reality.
Unfortunately, they 'took those "talking points" to the polls last November.

That seems to be about as much culture as Grenell can handle.

Kid Rock and Kanye.

People weren't fired from the Kennedy Center because of their views of the arts, it was because they were too liberal to vote for Grenell's boss.
He has a lot of nerve to criticize artists for not complying with the venue whitewash.

Here's a quarter, call Greenwood and The Village People and book them as residents.

Why did the mad king interject himself into the center in the first place if politics are irrelevant to the arts?! He made it relevant, and he made the boycott appropriate.

Every one of Assclown’s appointees has just one function: Make the story about MAGA grievance. That’s what they do.

You have to stand up to a dictator wannabe while you still can.

...what business it is of Mr. Seller or Mr. Miranda how audience members vote or how it could possibly be relevant to the sacred relationship between performers and ticket holders, but they've made it clear that they won't perform for audiences that might contain Americans who disagree with them on matters irrelevant to the arts," Grenell wrote.

TRANSLATION --> "Shut up and dribble."

I missed that amid all the other howlers.

The arts have always been about commenting on politics and other issues. Notably true of the production Hamilton. This moron doesn't have a clue about "the arts."

Shouldn’t he be in the state raising his profile ?

And attacking actors will not gain in votes in California!

Maybe little dude it is the way DICK-tator trump screwed over the previous board members and not how the audience votes. Duh

Does this guy not understand that the lead character is not really Alexander Hamilton? It is an actor named Tyler Fauntleroy.

There are a couple of give-aways (spoiler alert):

1) Hamilton is dead. Has been for a minute.
2) Hamilton was white.

A pretty overblown, grandiose description of what is, at the end of the day, a mercantile transaction.

hem.

Especially from him!

It's about them finding trump and his takeover of the Kennedy Center (including Grenell's ascension as director) despicable.

TIA

Sacred, Gracie…?

For some reason, I thought TacoTSF made himself the head honcho for the whole Kennedy Center enchilada.

I applaud the Hamilton actors. No one with a conscience should play at the Kennedy Center now. Let them have Greenwood, Nugent, Kid Rock and the other has-beens.

is there to express the Arts and Culture. To teach, and entertain.
The current administration is here to push ideas that belong in the dark ages.

I am of course talking about the orange buffoon.