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From the Ted Talk by Oskar Eustis: Why theater is essential to democracy

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Open Cloze


But there was another side to that, and it's where I want to end, and it's the last _____ I want to talk about. Some of you may have heard that Vice President-elect Pence came to see "Hamilton" in New York. And when he came in, some of my ______ New Yorkers booed him. And beautifully, he said, "That's what freedom sounds like."

And at the end of the show, we read what I feel was a very __________ statement from the _____, and Vice President-elect Pence listened to it, but it sparked a certain amount of _______, a tweetstorm, and also an internet boycott of "Hamilton" from ________ people who had felt we had treated him with disrespect. I looked at that boycott and I said, we're getting something wrong here. All of these people who have signed this boycott petition, they were never going to see "Hamilton" anyway. It was never going to come to a city near them. If it could come, they couldn't afford a ______, and if they could afford a ticket, they didn't have the ___________ to get that ticket. They weren't boycotting us; we had _________ them. And if you look at the red and blue electoral map of the United States, and if I were to tell you, "Oh, the blue is what designates all of the major nonprofit cultural institutions," I'd be telling you the _____. You'd believe me. We in the _______ have done exactly what the economy, what the educational system, what technology has done, which is turn our back on a large part of the country.

Solution


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  2. outraged
  3. ticket
  4. truth
  5. outrage
  6. respectful
  7. fellow
  8. stage
  9. connections
  10. story
  11. culture

Original Text


But there was another side to that, and it's where I want to end, and it's the last story I want to talk about. Some of you may have heard that Vice President-elect Pence came to see "Hamilton" in New York. And when he came in, some of my fellow New Yorkers booed him. And beautifully, he said, "That's what freedom sounds like."

And at the end of the show, we read what I feel was a very respectful statement from the stage, and Vice President-elect Pence listened to it, but it sparked a certain amount of outrage, a tweetstorm, and also an internet boycott of "Hamilton" from outraged people who had felt we had treated him with disrespect. I looked at that boycott and I said, we're getting something wrong here. All of these people who have signed this boycott petition, they were never going to see "Hamilton" anyway. It was never going to come to a city near them. If it could come, they couldn't afford a ticket, and if they could afford a ticket, they didn't have the connections to get that ticket. They weren't boycotting us; we had boycotted them. And if you look at the red and blue electoral map of the United States, and if I were to tell you, "Oh, the blue is what designates all of the major nonprofit cultural institutions," I'd be telling you the truth. You'd believe me. We in the culture have done exactly what the economy, what the educational system, what technology has done, which is turn our back on a large part of the country.

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