{"id":43509,"date":"2022-08-12T18:58:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T18:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lin-manuel-miranda-says-texas-churchs-hamilton-show-was-illegal\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T18:58:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T18:58:44","slug":"lin-manuel-miranda-says-texas-churchs-hamilton-show-was-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lin-manuel-miranda-says-texas-churchs-hamilton-show-was-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lin-Manuel Miranda says Texas church&#8217;s &#8216;Hamilton&#8217; show was &#8216;illegal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Lin-Manuel Miranda on how 'Hamilton' changed from the Obama to Trump administration\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Lin-Manuel Miranda has responded to last week&#8217;s &#8220;unauthorized&#8221; performances of &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; at a Texas church, which reenacted the award-winning Broadway musical with revised, Christian-centric lines and an added homophobic sermon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Grateful to all of you who reached out about this illegal, unauthorized production. Now lawyers do their work,&#8221; Miranda <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lin_Manuel\/status\/1557369846396080128?s=20&amp;t=uuyPEHEfwpvjERBIXYqX2w\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">wrote on Twitter Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; creator added that he was &#8220;always grateful&#8221; to The Dramatists Guild, which., <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dramatistsguild\/status\/1557120593128034305\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">similarly condemned<\/a> the church&#8217;s production, for &#8220;(having) the backs of writers everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Door Christian Fellowship, a nondenominational church in McAllen, Texas, performed &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; on Aug.  5 and 6 with edited lines to reference Jesus Christ, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hemantmehta\/status\/1556409783896383489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1556409783896383489%7Ctwgr%5Edd527e8a8dafd4125eec61e0d5e07ce0f49b1329%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnation%2F2022%2F08%2F08%2Fhamilton-texas-church-gay-addiction-edited-scenes%2F\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">according to viral footage<\/a> of the production circulated over social media.  A sermon was also added to the production in which a speaker likened homosexuality to drug addiction, alcoholism and financial struggles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">Tuesday:<\/strong>&#8216;Hamilton&#8217; team blasts Texas church&#8217;s unauthorized, homophobic performance  <\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_tw\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadTwitter\" data-v-id=\"1557369846396080128\" aria-label=\"Twitter Embed\" style=\"min-height:225px\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The sermon was delivered by an associate pastor, whom NBC News identified as Victor Lopez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cMaybe you struggle with alcohol, with drugs \u2013 with homosexuality \u2013 maybe you struggle with other things in life, your finances, whatever, God can help you tonight.  He wants to forgive you for your sins,&#8221; Lopez says in video footage, which writer and FriendlyAtheist.com founder Hemant Mehta <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hemantmehta\/status\/1556402522918719488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1556402522918719488%7Ctwgr%5E4eacd42373bed99c44f311d17786745a5b67fffa%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fnation%2F2022%2F08%2F09%2Fhamilton-texas-church-unofficial-homophobic-performance%2F10274494002%2F\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">shared on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The theater team behind &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; denounced the Door Christian Fellowship&#8217;s &#8220;unauthorized changes&#8221; to the production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">&#8216;It&#8217;s always going to have something to say&#8217;:<\/strong>How Lin-Manuel Miranda&#8217;s historical &#8216;Hamilton&#8217; reflects America now  <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;We issued a cease-and-desist letter for the unauthorized use of Hamilton&#8217;s intellectual property, demanding the immediate removal of all videos and images from previous productions from the internet, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, their own website, and elsewhere ,&#8221; Shane Marshall Brown, a spokesperson for &#8220;Hamilton,&#8221; told USA TODAY in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_tw\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadTwitter\" data-v-id=\"1556402522918719488\" aria-label=\"Twitter Embed\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cThe Hamilton family stands for tolerance, compassion, inclusivity and certainly LGBTQ+ rights.  We are in the process of reviewing the unauthorized changes made to the script to determine further action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A full recording of the church&#8217;s production has not been made public.  Shortly after footage of the Aug.  5 performance went viral, the church&#8217;s livestreams and social media posts were taken down for the second show.  Under copyright law, churches have an exemption that allows them to perform copyrighted music during religious services \u2013 however, streaming or distribution of the performances is not permitted.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">&#8216;I felt like crying&#8217;:<\/strong>Anti-gay commencement speech at Ohio high school sparks outrage<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In a statement to the Dallas Morning News, Roman Gutierrez, senior pastor at the Door Christian Fellowship, said he acquired legal permission from the team behind &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; to produce the show.  But Brown said that claim was false.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;&#8216;Hamilton&#8217; does not grant amateur or professional licenses for any stage productions and did not grant one to The Door Church,&#8221; Brown told USA TODAY.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_anc\" id=\"gnt_atomsnc\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadAnc\" aria-label=\"Newsletter signup form\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Gutierrez also told the Dallas Morning News that &#8220;everyone is always welcome&#8221; at the Door Christian Fellowship, adding that the church is not anti-LGBTQ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">What&#8217;s everyone talking about?:<\/strong>Sign up for our trending newsletter to get the latest news of the day  <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">When contacted by USA TODAY on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Door Christian Fellowship of McAllen said the church would not be issuing any public response or statement at the time.  USA TODAY reached out again on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">USA TODAY also contacted the team behind &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; on Friday for further updates.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lin-Manuel Miranda has responded to last week&#8217;s &#8220;unauthorized&#8221; performances of &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; at a Texas church, which reenacted the award-winning Broadway musical with revised, Christian-centric lines and an added homophobic sermon. &#8220;Grateful to all of you who reached out about this illegal, unauthorized production. Now lawyers do their work,&#8221; Miranda wrote on Twitter Wednesday. The &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lin-manuel-miranda-says-texas-churchs-hamilton-show-was-illegal\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lin-Manuel Miranda says Texas church&#8217;s &#8216;Hamilton&#8217; show was &#8216;illegal&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44630,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lawyers-handling-unauthorized-hamilton-in-texas\/","url_meta":{"origin":43509,"position":0},"title":"Lawyers handling unauthorized &#8216;Hamilton&#8217; in Texas","date":"August 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Lin-Manuel Miranda says he knows about a bizarre, unauthorized staging of his megahit musical \u201cHamilton\u201d that took place at a Texas church \u2014 and it's up to the lawyers to handle it. \u201cGrateful to all of you who reached out about this illegal, unauthorized production,\u201d Miranda tweeted. \u201cNow lawyers do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Hamilton at THE 70TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS, live from the Beacon Theater in New York City, Sunday, June 12.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/lin-manuel-miranda-01.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":42893,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lin-manuel-miranda-on-churchs-christianized-version-of-hamilton-deadline\/","url_meta":{"origin":43509,"position":1},"title":"Lin-Manuel Miranda On Church&#8217;s \u201cChristianized\u201d Version Of &#8216;Hamilton&#8217; \u2013 Deadline","date":"August 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cStop running from God, Alexander\u2026His word says if we confess our sins, he is faithful and [wants] just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us.\u201d Don't remember that line from Lin-Manuel Miranda's Pulitzer Prize-winning Hamilton? 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(Doesn't that just roll off the tongue?)A few weeks after Netflix announced their suite against Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, creators of the Grammy-winning Unofficial Bridgerton MusicalThe Summer Of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40520,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hamilton-team-condemns-texas-churchs-unofficial-homophobic-sermon\/","url_meta":{"origin":43509,"position":4},"title":"&#8216;Hamilton&#8217; team condemns Texas church&#8217;s unofficial, homophobic sermon","date":"August 9, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The theater team behind the renowned \"Hamilton\" production denounced \"unauthorized changes\" made by a South Texas Church that reenacted the popular play with Christian-centric and homophobic lines. 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