Canada's Hamilton Theatre inundated with angry Americans mistaking it for 'Hamilton'

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Fact-checking only takes a second, but a second was apparently too long for some Americans tweeting about the musical 'Hamilton.'

Ontario's oldest theater, the Hamilton Theatre, has been slammed with angry tweets sent by people upset about last week's speech by the cast of the Broadway musical 'Hamilton.' The tweets started on Friday and, as CBC TV reports, first delighted Hamilton Theatre's social media manager Riane Leonard, who saw the notifications without initially reading the tweets.

"Oh, this is great!" Leonard told CBC. "People are tweeting about the show."

They were not. Instead, they were declaring their boycott of the musical in New York, which made headlines when vice president-elect Mike Pence attended a performance and was addressed personally by the cast after the show ended.

Actor Brandon Victor Dixon, who plays Aaron Burr in the musical, read a note on behalf of the cast.

"We, sir, we are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights," said Dixon. "We truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us."

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President-elect Donald Trump was none-too-pleased with the comments, tweeting that the cast of 'Hamilton' owed Pence an apology. And some of Trump's supporters clearly agreed, telling poor little Hamilton Theatre that they'd never frequent them.

"Completely disrespectful @HamiltonTheatre there's a place time ... cancelling my plans to see this play," one person tweeted.

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The theatre's Twitter handle likely sparked the confusion; it's @HamiltonTheatre. But really, there are no excuses.

"You're funneling it to the wrong person, guys," Leonard told CBC. "All you need to do is check our profile to see we're not even in the same country."