{"id":88317,"date":"2022-08-08T16:24:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T16:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=88317"},"modified":"2023-01-20T05:31:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T05:31:20","slug":"texas-church-sent-cease-and-desist-letter-by-hamilton-producers-over-anti-lgbt-copycat-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/texas-church-sent-cease-and-desist-letter-by-hamilton-producers-over-anti-lgbt-copycat-play","title":{"rendered":"Texas church sent cease and desist letter by Hamilton producers over anti-LGBT+ copycat play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A southern Texas church has been handed a cease and desist letter by the production company behind Broadway hit Hamilton after a copycat production was staged with an anti-LGBT + message. Social media posts showed the Door Christian Fellowship church in McAllen, a city in southern Texas, advertised and staged its copycat Hamilton play on Friday last week and again on Saturday. As OnStage reported, The Door allegedly live-streamed its production of Hamilton without permission. Nor did The Door and a production company, RGV, seek permission to adapt parts of the play &#8211; a fact the church has denied, according to Dallas Morning News . The two-hour long production &#8211; which was followed by a sermon &#8211; also contained biblical messages not included in playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda&#8217;s Hamilton. A pastor allegedly told an audience after Friday&#8217;s performance: &#8220;Maybe you struggle with alcohol, with drugs, with homosexuality, maybe you struggle with other things in life, your finances, whatever, God can help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A southern Texas church has been handed a cease and desist letter by the production company behind Broadway hit Hamilton after a copycat production was staged with an anti-LGBT+ message.Social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,291],"tags":[69,55],"class_list":["post-88317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-religion","tag-religion","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}