Remember how this show prided itself hard on hiring a majority cast of actors/actresses from under-represented races and backgrounds, and how Lin Manuel Miranda preached the importance of this representation, but then simultaneously shamed poor and underprivileged people for watching bootlegs of the show when it is otherwise
pretty much
only available to the wealthy who can afford the grotesque ticket prices (the crappiest seats currently cost upwards of $150 and that’s not even in NY) and travel costs. If Miranda actually gave a fuck about the under privileged people he soap boxes about the show reaching, he would provide DVD copies of the show for sale or have it air on CBS or something for people to watch. He’s literally been confronted with these arguments before and still turns his nose up because “it’s THEATER so it has to be on STAGE and I MADE IT so I SAY SO” lol. He would literally rather shrug at poor people and continue raking in millions of dollars.
Anyways theater continues to be a medium that’s almost exclusively for the wealthy; there will never be a “woke” Broadway musical or play as long as the medium continues to be entirely inaccessible to the lower class.
1. your suffering can’t end until you stop identifying with it. if your sense of self is tied up in your suffering, anyone or anything that attempts to separate you from it will become the enemy because, whether consciously or subconsciously, you will on some level believe they are trying to take away a part of who you are.
