There's Hamilton, the hit musical and Hamilton, the city. Angry social media users confuse the two

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When Riane Leonard finished running the lights for Friday's performance of The Toxic Avenger at Hamilton Theatre Inc., she checked her phone and saw reams of notifications.

Leonard, who is a member of the theatre company's production team, also manages the Twitter account for the theatre company based on MacNab Street North in Hamilton, Ont.

"Oh, this is great!" she thought. "People are tweeting about the show."

But the first tweet she saw was alarming. "The first one was something like, 'I'm never supporting Hamilton Theatre again!'"

Leonard had a moment of panic. "Oh sweet God, what did we do that was so wrong?" she asked herself.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/there-s-hamilton-the-hit-musical-and-hamilton-the-city-angry-social-media-users-confuse-the-two-1.3859503

Trump supporters are soooooo stupid.

[liberal N proud]

1. ThIs is the low information voter

They are clueless.

[uppityperson]

2. And 10 bills to turn in

[mainer]

3. Just posted the same story from Huffington Post.

Deleted it because it's a dupe. Still, worth checking out the Huff Post coverage:

There’s “Hamilton,” the hit Broadway musical seen by Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Friday. And there’s Hamilton, the Canadian city which has a theater donning the same name. One is @HamiltonMusical on Twitter; the other, @HamiltonTheatre.

It’s not hard to see how right-wing supporters might confuse the two. After President-elect Donald Trump criticized “Hamilton” over the weekend for delivering a political message to Pence from the stage, supporters aimed dozens of angry tweets at the Canadian theater instead of the New York production.

“If they only had looked at our profile, it says Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, several times. That just goes to show something about hate-mongering on the internet and the lack of effort people put forward,” Riane Leonard, who handles the theater company’s Twitter account, told local news outlet The Hamilton Spectator.