A Texas church performed an unauthorized production of "Hamilton w added religious stuff/ anti lgbt

[Demovictory9]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/entertainment/hamilton-unauthorized-production-texas-church-cec/index.html

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A Texas church performed "Hamilton" this weekend, but the team behind the Tony-award winning production says it shouldn't have happened.

"'Hamilton' does not grant amateur or professional licenses for any stage productions and did not grant one to The Door Church," Shane Marshall Brown, a spokesperson for "Hamilton," said in a statement to CNN on Monday.

Officials behind the musical were not aware of the "unauthorized staging" until the day after the church's first of two scheduled performances and sent a cease-and-desist letter, the spokesperson added.

The Door, a church in McAllen, a town in South Texas, was allowed to continue with its planned second performance, with conditions, among them that the show would not be live streamed, recorded or shared on social media in photo or video form, according to the statement.

The Door performed "Hamilton" on Aug. 5 and 6 with edited content that included lyrical references to Jesus and Christianity throughout, according to footage of the production shared on social media. A sermon reportedly delivered to the audience also compared homosexuality to drug addiction, according to video.

In an additional statement provided to CNN late Monday, the spokesperson said they were not aware "of the extensive changes to the show or that there would be a sermon at the end" when they allowed Saturday's performance to move forward.

[inthewind21]

1. Guess

the church is either ok with stealing or not smart enough to know about copy right law.

[MuseRider]

2. Ewwww.

Local productions are often pretty bad like this but they usually follow the rules set by the production company or the composer. There are BIG fines if you do not. It looks like this "church" broke all the rules after being completely informed of them.

I wonder what Jesus, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jonathan Groff would say about this?

I have played in some great shows and some pretty podunk productions to keep theater alive in the boonies but there were always extensive rules, even on old shows that never hit but were perfect for a community of 200 to cast.

Keep theater alive, stop churches from cheating and wrecking them.

[Aristus]

6. Church-acting is the worst!

Especially in evangelical churches.

Just like those bearded twenty year-old douchebags who think playing the guitar and singing those monotonous, insipid "worship songs" makes them into rock stars.

[MuseRider]

9. My god you are so right about that.

My evangelical relatives who seem to think I will come along one of these days if they just keep trying go to at least 3 services on Sunday and I get all the musical numbers recorded for me. It is quite painful much of the time although there are always the good talents tucked in there as well. The stuff they call worship music now is just "god" awful.

Thankfully most of my playing in a church for a church has been with Messiah and other kinds of actual good god music. Small groups for chamber music as well.

Worship music? Not me. Blechhhh, not ever.

Insipid. Word of the day for douchbags playing the guitar and singing.

[MagickMuffin]

3. They forgot about that pesky 10 commandments THY SHALL NOT STEAL

They have no creative thoughts so they must steal and then oh so cleaverly rewrite the original content.


God be very mad they were caught stealing. But hey its what they do

[MineralMan]

4. Well, That Was Mighty Christian of Them

to steal the script, Christ it up, and perform the play in an unauthorized way. Yes indeed, Jesus would be very pleased with their performance, no doubt.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Sue them!

[dsc]

7. Potentially they are in huge trouble

Broadcasting with out a mechanical license is a big no no

[Earthrise]

8. Does it look like he's chewing gum to you? Ugh. (eom)

[Docreed2003]

10. I find the whole "non-church name" church trend to be so annoying

"The Door"....see we're cool, we have "Hamilton", we're a church that's not like those other churches 🙄🙄

We have churches like that here with names like "Answers" and "Why God?" Lol

[Demovictory9]

12. There is a huge one near me ..The Rock i think

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[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Mighty Xtian of them.

[spanone]

13. Sue them out of business.