Protestant ‘Riverdance’ cancelled again due to poor ticket sales and un-paid actors.

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1. Ffs, that is utterly grim.

2. I didn’t realise Riverdance was Catholic.

3. >Repost due to mods doin’ mod stuff.

   As a mod looking at the mod log, and your own profile, I have no clue what mod stuff you’re on about?

   If you could provide further context, this can be checked in case there’s a bug/glitch or some other issue?

4. I love the way the penultimate song is them singing about someone taking their land. What the actual fuck.

5. The “protestant answer to riverdance”.

   At the annual Loyalist Communities Council general meeting this week, the standard question of “what do the taigs have that we don’t and how can we bastardise it and call it our own” was put forward.

   A member of the panel suggested riverdance, the most Catholic of all the dances. Sure didn’t the pope himself die from a riverdance related accident.

   After much deliberation the panel chair said “The motion will be put forward. But we must ensure we don’t make the same mistake as last year’s what do the taigs have that we don’t, where we decided on rosary beads and inadvertently reinvented anal beads. I’m looking at you Mervyn.”

   The motion will be ratified by the big magnificent superior wizard later next month.

6. is that yer man Lawson?

7. Stupid fucking prods 😂. Am I doing it right ? Ya bigot

8. ??

9. I’m a solicitor and the cancellation is due to anti-craic laws. Any event which is shite craic or tends towards shite craic is prohibited

10. Does everyone go up for communion during the regular Riverdance or something?

11. I saw this air on BBC and couldn’t believe so many people had never seen *Waiting For Guffman.* The finale makes even clearer the motivation at work: the Cliff Richard, slightly gay, Evangelical dollar. It deserves not to get it, and the poor bastards who dutifully spoke that dialogue deserve their fucking pay and healthcare.

12. Protestant answer to Riverdance. What was the question?

13. https://preview.redd.it/ol4k6h6xij9f1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6de916df1a39fe80e77cbbba4c07db27886715af

14. I think George Jones went bankrupt first time round because he mortgaged the house on it.

    Then he got into a rant on his Radio Ulster show about the BBC not having supported it sufficiently and got fired over that.

    The only upside for George was that Gerry Anderson called him a tax evader and he managed to sue him and the bbc.

15. Was this renamed where eagles fly? I saw someone post on Facebook a few months ago they were in this and it seems to have been cancelled and no one is being paid

16. Geesus wept, they should team up with RTE and produce ‘Toy Show on the Glorious 12th the Musical’ anyone questioning my grammar can feck off I’m drunk

17. I cant watch it so i skipped to see the end… BREAKDANCING?! Those boys in the kilts are fit to be fair.

18. The power of Flatley compels you! The power of Flatley compels you!

19. It’s made for an American audience. 10 mins in and it’s an advert for genealogy with Peter Corry singing “Do you know who you are?” & cast saying “I tick I cam fram erlannd”. The theater program offering a 20% discount for DNA research with the code D.U.P

    23 mins in and Peter revises the plantation of Ulster with poor people caught up in war with England & Scotland. As a son of a Huguenot and cattle rustlers this is utter bollox. Larne is featured on the theatrical map. Even Today, under the reign of Sammy Wilson, children have to learn secondary education 15 miles up the coast due to pure intolerance from planters.

    I’m leaving my review at that

    If Peter had the balls he’d be singing Les Mes “Bring him home” from the top of an flaming bonfire. He’s just a County Down prick that uses the troubles a schtick

20. The first comment on the YT video is “this is the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life”. I can well believe. Calling it atrocious would be very kind.

21. That might be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. The breakdancing in a kilt was unexpected

22. Are they literally billing it as that or was that billing imbued upon it by others who wish to colour perceptions of it and put others off from giving it a go?

    It looks a bit camp, silly with an (unintentional) tinge of Mel Brooke’s?

    Riverdance, on the other hand, is so devoid of irony, it makes a tax return look like a drag queen’s confessional.

    It’s all “look at us, we’re serious dancers, we’re preserving our heritage!” whilst simultaneously flogging cheap Guinness-themed merchandise outside. And those expressions! So intense, so utterly devoid of joy. They look like they’re concentrating on a particularly difficult bowel movement rather than, you know, dancing.

    Like what you like.. but..

    It was a Eurovision spin-off.. hardly high art or the earnest ode to a sphere of a culture people should grovel in unquestioning reverence to..

23. They should stick to making Tiffany or Tina Turner songs sectarian. It’s the only culture they have. 

24. My grandma has refused to attend Riverdance since they started facing the audience instead of *ad orientem*

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