{"id":2410308,"date":"2025-03-05T21:23:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T02:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamilton-musical-slammed-as-intolerant-for-dropping-kennedy-center\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T21:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T02:24:38","slug":"hamilton-musical-slammed-as-intolerant-for-dropping-kennedy-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamilton-musical-slammed-as-intolerant-for-dropping-kennedy-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton musical slammed as &#8216;intolerant&#8217; for dropping Kennedy Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhamilton-musical-slammed-as-intolerant-for-dropping-kennedy-center%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2410308&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Tony Award-winning musical \u200d&#8221;Hamilton&#8221; \u2064has decided to cancel its performance at the Kennedy Center after the Trump administration \u2063took control of the cultural \u2063venue. Producer Jeffrey \u2062Seller stated he could not &#8220;in good \u200cconscience&#8221; be involved\u2064 with the new leadership, which he described as &#8220;intolerant.&#8221; The cancellation comes on the heels of significant changes\u200c at the Kennedy Center, including the dismissal of previous trustees and the appointment of Trump associates, which Seller claims have jeopardized the center&#8217;s neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>Richard\u2062 Grenell, a former Trump \u2063ambassador and new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/school-board-group-asks-white-house-for-federal-help-with-threats\/\" title=\"School board group asks White House for federal help with threats\">interim executive director<\/a> \u200dof the \u200bKennedy Center, criticized the cancellation as a &#8220;publicity stunt&#8221; and asserted that it reflects the intolerance of the creators of &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; toward political disagreement.He contended that the arts\u200c should be accessible\u2062 to everyone, irrespective \u2064of their political views. Additionally, other artists and performances have also pulled out of appearances at the Kennedy Center in protest of the\u200c recent political shifts. Despite these cancellations,the Kennedy Center continues to host numerous productions,including &#8220;The Sound of Music&#8221; scheduled \u2063for 2025.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Grenell slams Hamilton musical as &lsquo;intolerant&rsquo; for dropping Kennedy Center after Trump takeover<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2028657\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The musical <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alexander-hamilton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Hamilton\">Hamilton<\/a> <\/em>has canceled its plans to perform at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kennedy-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kennedy Center\">Kennedy Center<\/a> following President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s taking over the cultural center&rsquo;s leadership, and the new leadership is calling out this &ldquo;publicity stunt&rdquo; as an &ldquo;intolerant&rdquo; political move.<\/p>\n<p>The musical was on the schedule to perform in March 2026 but the lead producer, Jeffrey Seller, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HamiltonMusical\/status\/1897414367630540928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said in a statement\">said in a statement<\/a> on Wednesday that he could not &ldquo;in good conscience, participate and be a part of this new culture.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3337988\/majority-workers-doge-email-request-reasonable-poll\/\">Majority of workers agree DOGE &#8216;5 things&#8217; email request is &#8216;reasonable&#8217;: Poll<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3337978\/vance-wants-trump-build-entire-border-wall-2029\/\">Vance wants Trump to &#8216;build the entire border wall&#8217; by 2029<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3338637\/state-department-considering-criminal-referrals-against-usaid\/\">State Department considering criminal referrals against USAID<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A statement from Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yTLlrzFAHW\">pic.twitter.com\/yTLlrzFAHW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hamilton (@HamiltonMusical) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HamiltonMusical\/status\/1897414367630540928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In recent weeks we have sadly seen decades of Kennedy Center neutrality be destroyed. The recent purge by the Trump Administration of both professional staff and performing arts events at or originally produced by the Kennedy Center flies in the face of everything this national cultural center represents,&rdquo; Sellers said in a statement on the Hamilton musical X account.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to slam the firing of the Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter, Board Chairman David Rubenstein, and other board members.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are not acting against his administration, but against the partisan policies of the Kennedy Center as a result of his recent takeover,&rdquo; Sellers concluded.<\/p>\n<p>In February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Trump<\/a> was elected to lead the Kennedy Center board, and Ambassador <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/richard-grenell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Richard Grenell\">Richard Grenell<\/a>, former Trump ambassador to Germany who currently serves as Trump&rsquo;s envoy for special missions, was brought in to be his interim executive director. The Biden administration&rsquo;s appointed trustees were all dismissed or they resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Following the takeover, Grenell shared that he discovered that the former leadership of the Kennedy Center had left the organization in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/100-marco-rubio-presses-state-dept-official-on-whether-russia-will-use-chemical-biological-weapons\/\" title=\"\u2018100%?\u2019 Marco Rubio Presses State Dept Official On Whether Russia Will Use Chemical, Biological Weapons\">dire financial situation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was briefed today by the CFO of the Kennedy Center on its financial situation. She told me there is ZERO cash on hand. And ZERO in reserves. And the deferred maintenance is a crisis. For the past months they&rsquo;ve been digging into the DEBT RESERVES,&rdquo; he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RichardGrenell\/status\/1889833504562675852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>Grenell <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RichardGrenell\/status\/1897420465817182505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"responded\">responded<\/a> on Wednesday to the announcement of <em>Hamilton<\/em>&lsquo;s cancellation and called it a partisan &ldquo;publicity stunt.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Let&rsquo;s be clear on the facts.<\/p>\n<p>Seller and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lin_Manuel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Lin_Manuel<\/a> first went to the New York Times before they came to the Kennedy Center with their announcement that they can&rsquo;t be in the same room with Republicans. <\/p>\n<p>This is a publicity stunt that will backfire. <\/p>\n<p>The Arts are for everyone -&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K56LjofULp\">https:\/\/t.co\/K56LjofULp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardGrenell\/status\/1897420465817182505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s be clear on the facts. Seller and @Lin_Manuel first went to the New York Times before they came to the Kennedy Center with their announcement that they can&rsquo;t be in the same room with Republicans,&rdquo; he wrote on X on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is a publicity stunt that will backfire,&rdquo; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Arts are for everyone &ndash; not just for the people who Lin likes and agrees with,&rdquo; Grenell continued in a statement. &ldquo;The American people need to know that @Lin_Manuel is intolerant of people who don&rsquo;t agree with him politically. It&rsquo;s clear he and Sellers don&rsquo;t want Republicans going to their shows.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Americans see you, Lin,&rdquo; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of <em>Hamilton<\/em>, has been a Democratic fundraiser and a vocal critic of President Trump. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/politics-news\/lin-manuel-miranda-hillary-clinton-joe-biden-broadway-fundraiser-1235866402\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"raised money\">raised money<\/a>, alongside former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, for former President Joe Biden in 2024. The Broadway star also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"performed\">performed<\/a> for President Barack Obama at the White House. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"oDtSQVj0qzg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Founding Fathers Cold Open - SNL\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oDtSQVj0qzg?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Following Trump&rsquo;s inauguration, the <em>Hamilton<\/em> star performed in a<em> Saturday Night Live<\/em> sketch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oDtSQVj0qzg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"mocked President Trump\">mocking Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some other performances have also canceled their shows at the Kennedy Center out of politics.<\/p>\n<p>Actress Issa Rae of HBO&rsquo;s Insecure canceled her March 16 show. The Alfred Street Baptist Church of Arlington, Virginia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3322006\/virginia-church-scraps-christmas-event-kennedy-center-over-trump-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"dropped\">dropped<\/a> its annual Christmas performance out of protest of the new Trump leadership.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"v7zEY-muYJY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Finn | Nov 22 - Dec 22, 2024 @ The Kennedy Center\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v7zEY-muYJY?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Last month, the new leadership at the Kennedy Center canceled the planned tour of its children&rsquo;s musical <em>Finn<\/em>, a show about a young shark who loves bright colors and sparkles, and even though he&rsquo;s a shark, he ponders if he might be a fish. While the Kennedy Center called the cancellation of the musical &ldquo;purely financial,&rdquo; there was an outcry from the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/3331493\/trump-to-make-christmas-great-again-at-the-kennedy-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"TRUMP TO MAKE CHRISTMAS GREAT AGAIN AT THE KENNEDY CENTER\"><strong>TRUMP TO MAKE CHRISTMAS GREAT AGAIN AT THE KENNEDY CENTER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s an anthem for being yourself, even when that doesn&rsquo;t look like what the people (or sharks) around you thought it would. And yes, every gay kid, every trans kid, every nonbinary kid has gone through a moment of saying &lsquo;It&rsquo;s time to be me.&rsquo; We wrote this for them. For ourselves, when we were kids. We would have loved a show like this,&rdquo; the<em> Finn <\/em>musical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/finnmusical\/reel\/DGTh_z-itIr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said while posting\">said while posting<\/a> one of its songs on Instagram in protest of the cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these cancellations, the Kennedy Center has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">numerous big shows<\/a> still coming to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/whats-on\/explore-by-genre\/theater\/2024-2025\/the-sound-of-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"perfom including The Sound of Music\">perform, including <em>The Sound of Music<\/em><\/a>, which will run from September through October 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2028657\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2028657\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grenell criticizes Hamilton for canceling Kennedy Center show after Trump\u2019s takeover, labeling it an \u201cintolerant\u201d publicity stunt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2678,"featured_media":2410309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Hamilton-musical.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[50410,11172,5292,50057,49132],"class_list":["post-2410308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-controversy-2","tag-hamilton","tag-intolerance","tag-kennedy-center","tag-musical"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Hamilton-musical.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410312,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410308\/revisions\/2410312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}