Vice President-Elect Mike Pence was in “The Room Where It Happens”, and things didn’t go so well. That’s right: last night, Pence visited the Richard Rogers Theater to see the Pulitzer Prize, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning Broadway sensation Hamilton, and audience reactions were a bit mixed.
As Pence entered the theater, he was greeted with both boos and cheers from the show’s audience. After the show, star Brandon Victor Dixon (who portrays Aaron Burr) delivered a gracious address to the future VP, urging him to consider the nation as a whole as he develops future policies.
Needless to say, Twitter took this incident and ran with it — with both sides of the political fence weighing in on the exchange. It wasn’t long before the tag #BoycottHamilton was trending nationwide as people posted their reactions. And, while some people were advocates for this protest, many found the whole thing rather silly, considering the show’s continued success, and responded accordingly with all the wit you’d expect from theater fans.
From thousands of tweets, we’re bringing you our Pop10 hilarious reactions to the #BoycottHamilton movement! Enjoy!
Anyone who now wants to #BoycottHamilton who has tickets for a future performance + wants to sell them, slide into my DMs. I will buy them.
— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) November 19, 2016
The #BoycottHamilton hashtag is the best thing to happen to musical theatre since Audra McDonald was created in a lab at Juilliard.
— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) November 19, 2016
Yeah, OK, I’m so sure all those planning to #boycotthamilton were totally planning on going before.
— Katie Hatcher (@KateBly) November 19, 2016
I have thus resisted the siren call of Hamilton, but I’m going to go buy the soundtrack now. #ThanksTrump #BoycottHamilton
— Monica Marlowe (@MonicaLMarlowe) November 19, 2016
Yes, mark down on your calendars for a a year and a half from now to #BoycottHamilton.
— Jill Biden (@JillBidenVeep) November 19, 2016
I don’t see how you can #BoycottHamilton from outside the theater? You can’t even get in!
— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) November 19, 2016
Conservatives after tweeting #BoycottHamilton pic.twitter.com/7eDNrcEXDe
— Eric Dawson (@SaucinDawson) November 19, 2016
It’s hilarious to me that people are trying to #BoycottHamilton boycott, girlcott, transcott, whatever, SHE’S ALREADY SOLD OUT HUNTY!
— Todrick Hall (@todrick) November 19, 2016
#BoycottHamilton? Such a blunder sometimes it makes me wonder why I even bring the thunder…
— Kathy Agnew (@KathyAgnew) November 19, 2016
And last but not certainly not least…
The Venn diagram the #BoycottHamilton people and people who were ever going to see Hamilton are 2 circles on opposite sides of Earth.
— amber ruffin (@ambermruffin) November 19, 2016
As the craziness unfolds, keep sending us your favorite reaction tweets on Twitter!
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