That messy Christian adaptation of ‘Hamilton’ imploded as spectacularly as expected
When it comes to this homophobic church’s unauthorized Hamilton adaptation, the show must not go on.The word “adaptation” is pretty generous, actually.
The Door church in McAllen, Texas decide to put on a full stage production of the founding father musical, but jerry-rigged a storyline of the titular character gradually accepting Jesus in there.Folks on social media caught wind, and the hilariously embarrassing clips of what they dubbed as “Scamilton” blew up.
Among the clips was the sermon directly following the show,in which pastor Victor Lopez called homosexuality a “struggle” on par with drug addiction and divorce.All this attention on the production eventually reached the real Hamilton creators.
They were about as happy as you can expect.Related: This homophobic church’s illegal ‘Hamilton’ show would be offensive if it weren’t so damn funnyEven after a cease and desist on Friday, the church went ahead with a Saturday performance of the show — this time in secret, after marking the whole thing as “canceled” on Eventbrite.In their following Sunday sermon, pastor Roman Gutierrez assured the congregation that they had permission, saying, “We would like to once again thank the Hamilton team for giving us the license to perform our version of Hamilton.”As Maury says, the lie detector test determined that was a lie.The church has now finally apologized for the production and acknowledged that they never obtained any kind of permission: A post shared by The Door McAllen Church (@doormcallen)In the statement, the church acknowledged its wrongdoings (copyright-wise, not the homophobia).
