Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
whatdoesntkillme
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#1Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 3:22pm
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Tonya-Pinkins-Helmed-BROADWAY-SUPPORTS-BLACK-LIVES-MATTER-Concert-Cancelled-at-Feinsteins54-Below-20160907
"We're sorry about this unfortunate situation which has not dimmed our commitment to supporting social justice."
What a sad excuse for an apology. How deeply disappointing.
#2Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 3:35pm
Well, this should be interesting.
#3Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 3:38pm
how strange to cancel the concert just three days before the show
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
#4Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 3:39pm
Thread here that's worth reading:
https://twitter.com/BenFerber/status/773899137901289474
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
Relevance81491
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#5Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 3:43pm
I can hear the mob sharpening their pitchforks now... Batten down the hatches
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#6Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 3:48pm
Their explanation is a certainly fair and valid one, which the owners of a private entity are also fully entitled to; regardless of whether you like it or not. Although I fully support the concept of "Black Lives Matter," I too am concerned with the use of language related to divestment of Israeli businesses in the official policy platform of an organization tasked with acting as the authorized representative of aforementioned concept/movement. It's a shame the organization had to tarnish the validity and legitimacy of their own movement with such hyperbolic and, possibly to some, threatening language against another group also wrongly oppressed all over the world on a daily basis.
¿Macavity?
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#7Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 3:50pm
LizzieCurry said: "Thread here that's worth reading:
https://twitter.com/BenFerber/status/773899137901289474
"
Wow, that guy has a problem. I can see people being mad at 54 Below, but that is just absurd. I don't think that 54 Below thinks that "Black Lives Don't Matter". I think that they had a very polite way of saying what they did. That guys needs to calm down.
Relevance81491
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#8Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 3:58pm
That is just the beginning
BroadwayConcierge
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#9Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 4:39pm
Ben Ferber needs to locate his chill immediately.
#10Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 5:02pm
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#11Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 5:15pm
I didn't realise such a wide support for Israel in the USA. I have been 'taught' that Israel has essentially stolen Palestinian land and continues to do so.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#12Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 5:19pm
yeah, Israel is like a big deal here
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#13Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 5:23pm
qolbinau said: "I have been 'taught' that Israel has essentially stolen Palestinian land and continues to do so."
Not true.
ArtMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/08
#14Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 5:26pm
qolbinau said: "I didn't realise such a wide support for Israel in the USA. I have been 'taught' that Israel has essentially stolen Palestinian land and continues to do so.
"
You were "taught" wrong!!!
ArtMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/08
#15Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 5:26pm
double post
#16Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 5:38pm
Can someone link me to some information to inform me about this issue? Assuming it doesn't have religious propaganda that they have some god given right to the land, which is obviously false because there is no God.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#17Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 6:09pm
Without getting into the underlying merits, what has happened here is what seems to happen too often with movements, the quintessential recent example being Occupy: a strong focal message gets muddled and dissipated as other interest groups or sub-groups co-opt the movement to their own ends. In both cases, the central agenda is/was terribly important and while there may be other equally important agendas, all that these detours accomplish is turning a Cat5 hurricane into, at best, a tropical storm most of which pivots out to sea.
FlySkyHigh
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#18Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 6:14pm
I can fully understand them not agreeing with certain points of the platform and not wanting to support something they don't agree with. However, I am curious as to whether they discussed this with the artists and tried to reach a compromise. If they talked with artists and couldn't reach a decision they could both live with, cancelling makes sense. If not, they probably were just looking for any reason to no longer host the event.
sabrelady
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#19Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 6:39pm
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/black-lives-matter-toronto-pride-parade-1.3663659
http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/how-black-lives-matter-co-founder-janaya-khan-sees-canada/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/black-lives-matter-blasts-pride-toronto-handling-of-black-lgbtq-youth/article30786807/
#20Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 8:30pm
The reason is totally valid.
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#21Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 8:39pm
BroadwayConcierge said: "qolbinau said: "I have been 'taught' that Israel has essentially stolen Palestinian land and continues to do so."
Not true.
"
While I don't agree Israel has stolen land from Palestine. I do believe they have overstepped their powers in stripping basically all fundamental rights from the Palestinians and they need to agree to a two party state. Israel is just stubborn.
I don't believe qolbinau is wrong, because Australia is right most of the time.
In our millions, in our billions, we are most powerful when we stand together. TW4C unwaveringly joins the worldwide masses, for we know our liberation is inseparably bound.
Signed,
Theater Workers for a Ceasefire
https://theaterworkersforaceasefire.com/statement
Updated On: 9/8/16 at 08:39 PM
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#22Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/8/16 at 9:22pm
Call_me_jorge said: "BroadwayConcierge said: "qolbinau said: "I have been 'taught' that Israel has essentially stolen Palestinian land and continues to do so."
Not true.
"
While I don't agree Israel has stolen land from Palestine. I do believe they have overstepped their powers in stripping basically all fundamental rights from the Palestinians and they need to agree to a two party state. Israel is just stubborn.
I don't believe qolbinau is wrong, because Australia is right most of the time.
OH I don't think so....
Same-sex unions are treated as de facto unions under Australian federal law, though each Australian state and territory is entitled to create their own laws with respect to same-sex relationship registers and same-sex partnership schemes. Civil unions and domestic partnerships are available to same-sex couples in most states and territories. Same-sex couples are prevented from marrying by the definition of marriage contained within the federal Marriage Act(1961), as amended in 2004 by the Howard Government."
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mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#23Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/9/16 at 10:38am
Fully agree with the reasons for canceling the benefit. MLK must be turning in his grave to see what has happened to the coalition he so believed in which has been hijacked by so-called "progressives" whose idea of progress is to burnish and promote the world's oldest and unjustified hatred.
Here's the truth about the history of the conflict. Yes, Qolbinau, you were taught wrong.
http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=7oJILSPwFfJSG&b=8480869&ct=14851697&msource=DAH060116&tr=y&auid=16749053
#24Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/9/16 at 11:17am
It's not likely you're going to get "the truth" from the AJC. A marvelous organization... but fairly extreme toward folks who criticize Israel's policies (including pointed criticisms of Tony Kushner and Barack Obama).
As with all difficult situations, there's one side's truth and the other side's truth. If you're interested, I'd encourage you to seek out sources that incorporate multiple viewpoints. Though somewhat dated, David Hare's Via Dolorosa does a pretty marvelous job incorporating various voices on the issue.
It's fairly irresponsible that 54 Below would cancel this concert so close to the date. The views of BLM on Israel were widely publicized weeks ago. I don't necessarily agree with BLM views on Israel, but it's their right to have those views and not have it effect their very powerful work on police brutality and race dialogue here in the US. There are several, several, several conservative policies endorsed by the Israeli government that it's doubtful many US liberals would agree with... however that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of value in Israel. It seems odd to say... "HOW DARE BLM SUGGEST AN ISRAELI BOYCOTT BECAUSE OF PROBLEMATIC POLICES! WE FIND THEIR POLICIES PROBLEMATIC SO WE ARE GOING TO BOYCOTT THEM!"
Jesus saves. I spend.
melora
Chorus Member Joined: 5/6/09
#25Tonya Pinkins-Helmed BROADWAY SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER Concert Cancelled at Feinstein's/54 Below
Posted: 9/9/16 at 12:13pm
The problem is, by adopting an anti-Israel plank, which has nothing to do with police action in America, the organization seems to be saying, "If you don't hate Israel, we don't want your support." And so they lose support.
Perhaps 54 Below delayed its response because it was genuinely torn on what was the right thing to do.
