"Hamilton" Cast Addressed Pence After Show
SMERCONISH: This morning Donald Trump tweeted about "Hamilton" because last night Vice President-elect Mike Pence attended "Hamilton" on Broadway and got a surprise message from the cast during the curtain call.</s>BRANDON DIXON, ACTOR, "HAMILTON": Vice President-elect Pence, we welcome you and we truly thank you for joining us here at "Hamilton: An American Musical." We really do. We, sir, we are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet.</s>DIXON: Our children, our parents or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. But we truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us. All of us.</s>SMERCONISH: You know, I've got to say, I'm with Trump and Pence on this. I mean, can't the guy just have a night out and enjoy the theater? As my parents would say, time and a place, time and a place, time and a place. That reminds me, which I just saw that clip for the first time, it reminds me of the night that I spent a lot of money to sit in the front row at Madison Square Garden and listen to Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame, and we were like a mile or two from ground zero as the crow flies. And I had to sit through a lecture that he delivered on habeas corpus rights for Guantanamo prisoners. And it was just so inappropriate. I think I ended up shouting back during the course of the performance. So let the guy have a night out. For crying out loud, he's got a lot on his plate for the next four or eight years. I'm not denying the message of what I just heard, I'm just denying the propriety of where and when and how it was delivered. I'm sorry, I just ate up all the time for Twitter. But that's important. Tweet me @smerconish. I'll see you back here in two weeks because we're off for Thanksgiving. Have a great holiday.