March 14

Dorothy Slater of Hudson Falls, NY won a Lion's Club raffle. The grand prize was an all-expense-paid weekend in NYC, with lodging at The Plaza, and a ticket to Hamilton. Dorothy, who was a junior high school teacher and director of student theater, had read such glowing reviews of the show in the teaching journals she subscribed to, and was excited about the opportunity to see the musical, which was way beyond her means on a teacher's salary. It was an especially crushing blow to her when the show turned out to be so different from what she'd expected. Carrying such fond memories of 1776 - what she considered to be a REAL musical - Dorothy reported back to her coworkers and Principal that she didn't understand all the praise for a show which featured "rap," and that, "American-sounding music that isn't so closely associated with street crime and violence" would have been way more to her liking. As a result of Dorothy's cautions about the true nature of Lin-Manuel Miranda's play, and fears that a hip-hop-based musical might be offensive to the predominantly white community of Hudson Falls, plans to stage Hamilton at Washington Irving Junior High were scrapped, and the Spring production, instead, was Flower Drum Song.