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At Dolly Parton’s Civil War–Themed Dinner Theater, There’s Violence on Many Sides
This is similar to Medieval Times or Pirates.
It's easy, if you don't want to see the civil war reduced to an evening of kitchy entertainment don't buy a ticket. Don't go. Stop controlling the lives of others. Stop protesting the reencactors, this kind of entertainment.
Advertised as an “extraordinary dinner show … pitting North against South in a friendly and fun rivalry,” Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede is the Lost Cause of the Confederacy meets Cirque du Soleil. It’s a lily-white kitsch extravaganza that play-acts the Civil War but never once mentions slavery. Instead, it romanticizes the old South, with generous portions of both corn on the cob and Southern belles festooned in Christmas lights. At its sister staging in Branson, Missouri (the original is up the road from Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee), it’s put on at a venue that can only be described as resembling a plantation mansion. Also, everyone in the audience must pick a side.
This is similar to Medieval Times or Pirates.
It's easy, if you don't want to see the civil war reduced to an evening of kitchy entertainment don't buy a ticket. Don't go. Stop controlling the lives of others. Stop protesting the reencactors, this kind of entertainment.