What will happen to hamilton now?

[RJ14]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 12:19am

that Trump basically won the election and 95% of Hamilton cast will be deported?

What will happen to the future productions of West Side Story, In The Heights, and more?

/good luck America

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 12:20am

This is an incredibly racist joke and you should be absolutely ashamed of yourself for making it.

[RJ14]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 12:25am

CindersGolightly said: "This is an incredibly racist joke and you should be absolutely ashamed of yourself for making it.

 

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At least this joke doesn't harm anybody, tell that to more than 50% of America who just voted for a racist who will DO REAL DAMAGE THINGS

[dramamama611]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 12:29am

It is disgusting, and no better than he.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 12:52am

Some people here are seriously humor-impaired. The ethnic diversity of the HAMILTON cast has been celebrated and the OP is hardly the first person to mention it. (Yeah, there was some exaggeration in the suggestion that cast members might all be here illegally, but surely nobody took that seriously.)

The target of his satire was clearly Trump's racism, not any group of actors.

I'm not saying it was a GREAT joke, but there was nothing racist about it. The mere mention that humans exist in great variety is not ipso facto racist. Sheesh!

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 12:52am

It does seem ironic Hamilton is doing enormously well in a time of political instability 

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 12:54am

Oh, saying that a group of people who aren't white are going to be deported isn't racist? Gotcha!

[hork]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 1:00am

CindersGolightly said: "Oh, saying that a group of people who aren't white are going to be deported isn't racist? Gotcha!

 

You're adorable.

 

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 1:01am

CindersGolightly said: "Oh, saying that a group of people who aren't white are going to be deported isn't racist? Gotcha!

 

"

What the OP implied was that Trump had said it and would follow through. Yes, it's a slight exaggeration--I don't think Trump has discussed Greenlanders--but a joke often depends on exaggeration.

Nothing in the OP said the poster wanted to deport anyone; again, he was satirizing Trump and Trump's remarks.

[@z5]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 1:02am

It's not even anywhere close to true, nor funny. he has zero issue with anyone of other race or ethnicity. 

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 1:13am

Racist or not, it's still not very clever or well hashed...

[haterobics]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 1:26am

Aside from being unfunny, I think it misses the point of why people are coming to this board tonight... which is to avoid that nightmare.

[Dancingthrulife2]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 1:52am

They are Americans, and you have to be an American to join in the Equity.

Updated On: 11/9/16 at 01:52 AM

[blaxx]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 2:55am

Dancingthrulife2 said: "They are Americans, and you have to be an American to join in the Equity.

 

"

And if they weren't? Now THAT was racist.

 

[Dancingthrulife2]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 3:02am

blaxx said: "Dancingthrulife2 said: "They are Americans, and you have to be an American to join in the Equity.

 

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And if they weren't? Now THAT was racist.

 

 

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I wasn't aware that you have to be of certain ethnicity to be an "American." Perhaps you have no idea what racism even means: it's the social construct that places one race above others and hence establishes a racial hierarchy through micromanagement and institutionalized racial discrimination.

Updated On: 11/9/16 at 03:02 AM

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 3:16am

He probably won't deport them. Too much effort. He'll probably just build a wall around the Richard Rodgers.

[blaxx]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 3:17am

No love, grab a dictionary. The definitions of the word are broader than that. 

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 3:37am

I think quite a few BWW posters took to the bottle to wash away their worries tonight.

[darquegk]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 9:07am

I've said for about a year now that Hamilton is a Hilary Clintonian figure: a liberal with some centrist leanings, an underdog from a marginalized group, rising and ultimately prevented by scandal mongering, human weaknesses and political morass from seizing the "shot." Now that Trump won and Clinton lost, I feel like the character may well be tied to the tragedy of Hilary's campaign defeat forever, the way Kennedy and Camelot were inextricable.

[AHLiebross]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 9:20am

CindersGolightly, I think RJ14 was being sarcastic and not making an intentionally racist joke. If the cast of Hamilton includes people on guest artist visas, Trump might well want to have the visas revoked. Although he supposedly approves of legal immigration, he has waffled on that, as well as on everything else.

My hope is that Trump said all the bullsh*t just to get racists to vote for him, and he doesn't really mean it. I'm still appalled and sick, but I'm trying to cling to that hope for my own mental health. I have nonetheless advised my kids to get their passports renewed so they can get to safety if need be.

Audrey

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 12:43pm

" If the cast of Hamilton includes people on guest artist visas,"

It does not. They are all American.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 1:53pm

One of the Chicago cast members is appearing with the equity uk exchange program.

[newintown]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 2:13pm

"I've said for about a year now that Hamilton is a Hilary Clintonian figure: a liberal with some centrist leanings, an underdog from a marginalized group..."

Perhaps that's the way it appears in the musical; in real life, Hamilton was white, connected to the upper class, conservative, in favor of an American aristocracy, a presidency more like a monarchy, a Senate elected for life, and a financial/federal system that kept the rich rich and the poor poor.

Remember that the musical is a fiction (although many mistake it for history).

[darquegk]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 3:08pm

I'm pretty aware Hamilton the person is fairly distinct from Hamilton the fictional character; but the fiction is an analogy for present politics in a way the original Hamilton likely would not have approved of.

[Wee Thomas2]

Posted: 11/9/16 at 4:50pm

"

At least this joke doesn't harm anybody, tell that to more than 50% of America who just voted for a racist who will DO REAL DAMAGE THINGS

 

"

 

Closer to 20% of America who voted for him, to be accurate