Trump doesn't know what "non woke" musicals are | The Mary Sue
Donald Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center is already a mess as he thinks that there are "non woke" musicals. Buddy...
I am not a fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber. In the war between the March 22 birthdays, I am more of a Stephen Sondheim kind of girl. But even I have an issue when Donald Trump considers Webberâs musicals ânon-woke.â My guy, theyâre musicals.
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The President is now the âkingâ of the Kennedy Center. Meaning heâs the one who makes a lot of decisions about the Kennedy Center Honors. An audio leak details Trumpâs plans for his version of the ceremony and none of it is good! He wants those being honored to be more âconservativeâ and even claimed that men like Steve Wynn the hotel mogul could be honored. Thatâs not really what the Kennedy Center is for.
But one of the more baffling moves in Trumpâs take on the Honors is to celebrate musicals. His two picks? Cats and Phantom of the Opera. A board member asked if there were any âtotally wokeâ productions of these musicals in recent years. Iâd argue there were never any ânon-wokeâ versions of the musicals. Why? Because musicals are âwokeâ by definition of these MAGA conservatives and their beliefs.
Theatre has always been a more left-leaning sphere and what I do think is fascinating is that people like Trump and his base do not realize what the underlying message of theatre really is. Do they think cats is just about cats? I guess it is, in a way, but also there is no way a cat has ever actually enjoyed Donald Trumpâs company. Let me tell you. Cats can smell an enemy from a mile away.
But I do think the idea of including ânon-wokeâ musicals is actually laughable. The sentence alone is the opposite of what theatre is meant to do but try explaining that to someone like Trump.
(Universal Pictures)I have always viewed theatre as a whole as a more progressive and liberal art form. You can, seemingly, watch a musical and miss the themes present within the piece but thatâs not what my liberal arts degree in Performance Theatre taught me to do. So if you are someone like Trump and you view musicals as just seemingly forms of entertainment and not some deeper art form, sure. There might be some ânon-wokeâ productions you could claim.
But thatâs also a very surface level view of theatre and such productions. Even original productions of Oklahoma! or Kiss Me Kate have themes that would be considered âwokeâ by the MAGA side of things. And those are musicals that even I find too dated. But also the joke of theatre is that you can restage a production or interpret it differently than the guy next to you. It is why the most recent production of Oklahoma! was so spectacular. They didnât change a single word of the show, they just changed how we viewed these characters through staging and acting.
Which is why this entire conversation is baffling to me. Not only is theatre one of our more progressive art forms but even with more conservatives productions and staging, the subject matter is still âwokeâ by MAGA standards. So what are they going to do? Have Ben Shapiro write a bad musical or something?
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