The Great Unwashed

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Clarissa

November 19, 2016

People are freaking out all over the place:

I don’t care that Pence got booed at a Broadway musical. I’m not even sure I’d be one of the boo-ers if I was there. But the instincts of our elite press to side with the powerful over the great unwashed masses is frightening.

The “great unwashed masses” are the folks who can afford to pay hundreds of dollars to attend a Broadway musical, of course. Those poor, downtrodden sufferers. I’m sure they’ve gone hungry for months to save up for the show and queued up in the cold, clutching their tattered rags to their bony, emaciated chests.

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7 responses to “The Great Unwashed”

Pen

November 19, 2016

The price for a Broadway musical isn’t that bad. The “really good” seats tend to be more expensive, but even a decent ticket might cost between 50-75 dollars–and some of those seats are actually a lot better than the price makes you think. It’s still a lot, but definitely not in the hundreds of dollars.

Still, I wouldn’t call people who attend shows “the great unwashed masses.” That’s just absurdly dramatic.

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1. Clarissa
  
  November 19, 2016
  
  I just looked it up. For this show, the tickets start at $250.
  
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  1. Clarissa
    
    November 19, 2016
    
    No, mistake. They go from $700 to 1000.
    
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David P. Bellamy

November 19, 2016

I think all Broadway shows have $10 tickets available to full time students at curtain time, if any seats are available.

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1. Clarissa
  
  November 19, 2016
  
  Yes, I’m sure the audience was filled with students in $10 seats. :-))))))))
  
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Shakti

November 19, 2016

It’s all symbolic.

Meanwhile, among many other things:
President-elect: I had to settle Trump University case ‘to focus on our country’

Donald Trump says $25m settlement represented ‘small fraction’ of potential award in Twitter post before ‘great’ meeting with Mitt Romney

On Friday the US president-elect settled class-action fraud lawsuits relating to his Trump University for $25m, avoiding the public embarrassment of having to testify in court, despite having previously vowed to fight the cases to the end.

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1. el
  
  November 20, 2016
  
  \ President-elect: I had to settle Trump University case ‘to focus on our country’
  
  Actually, that’s one thing Trump did right.
  
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