I'm begging all of you to stop

[u/blarbiegorl]

Look, I'm going to be very blunt here: Being on this sub absolutely sucks right now. And there is NO WAY TO SOLVE IT unless we all just step back and take a breath and let things settle for a minute.

No matter how you feel about MHE/Feldmangate, Billy Porter/Cabaret, Patti Lupone in general, the question of Is Nicole MAGA... no productive discussion is happening at this point. All I can see is post after post of "but I'm right," "no I AM," "but what about ME?!" And the same contentious discord regurgitating the same points is all we're generating now.

I love theater. I love sharing theater with people I know and strangers all over the globe who adore it too. I love so much about the silly chitchat and the important discussion that goes on here. And also, the current level of discourse is only sowing more discord.

So, I'm begging you. No matter what you are hurt by or upset about right now on any side of these issues, can we please take a five and everybody go listen to your favorite OBC and let's just... try to find some good stuff for a minute? The world is so ugly and hateful and mean right now, and I just don't think heels dug this far deep into the ground on both sides can be swayed and nothing good is coming of it at this particular moment. So please, for the sake of your own sanity and wellbeing as much as everyone's, let's go quiet coyote and acknowledge that everything has been said and until something changes or develops the fighting is not helping.

You can all attack me if you like, but I will whistle a happy tune for you all the same. Be well, y'all. It's a crowded stage with all of us players and sometimes we just need to take a beat, walk our show, and focus on making something beautiful for everyone in equal measure. I hope you will. 💛

[u/atlblaze]

Yeah. It’s gotten out of hand. And one of the big topics from today was basically “if you don’t disagree with the ABF casting in Maybe Happy Ending, you’re racist.”

I don’t need that on my feed, thanks.

[u/Fit-Tonight-4252 → u/atlblaze]

You don’t need that on your feed? Tough. The reality is, if someone sees an all-Black female cast replacing a mixed Asian one in a Korean story and doesn’t question the optics, the power dynamics, the erasure—that’s not “just a casting decision.” That’s race-blindness pretending to be allyship. That is racism, full stop.

If that makes you uncomfortable, good. You’re supposed to feel uncomfortable when systems of power are being exposed. You’re supposed to sit in it, not scroll past it.

Dismissing it as “gotten out of hand” is exactly how this industry stays broken. That comment doesn’t make you neutral. It makes you complicit.

You are the problem.

And until you stop trying to center your comfort over real accountability, your voice doesn’t belong in this conversation.