| re: Your pearls are sufficiently clutched and your pique noted. | |
| Last Edit: TheOtherOne 04:47 pm EDT 08/09/20 | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 04:31 pm EDT 08/09/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Your pearls are sufficiently clutched and your pique noted. - ryhog 02:19 pm EDT 08/09/20 | |
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| Yes, we live in a capitalist society, but HAMILTON did not stop selling out because Leslie Odom Jr left its cast. It was still sold out nearly four years later when Covid-19 shut down Broadway. THE BOY FROM OZ and any other show Hugh Jackman has been in would have closed had he left. That is why he gets those big bucks. The Yankees did not stop selling out games when Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera retired, or, years earlier, when Mickey Mantle did. People go to see the Yankees. And they go to see HAMILTON. Leslie Odom is not that kind of a star. He hasn't been on Broadway or carried a film since, so it is hard to say what type of audience pull he will have, but neither Phillipa Soo nor Okierette Onaodowan made a case for the Hamiton pull when they returned to Broadway. Please don't think I would not love to see all of them back! But he was not that kind of star at the time. Ironically, he might be a bit closer to being one because his outstanding performance has now been seen by so many, but he was pushing it when he kept his company waiting to see if he would join them for the recording. And no, this one is not about race, though the Aaron Tveit comparison makes it plain that Odom thought it was. I would expect Jeremy Pope to negotiate a lot more money now if anyone wanted to film him in AIN'T TOO PROUD, but Jeremy followed up two huge personal successes in one season on Broadway with an arguably more successful debut in a popular miniseries. His agent would be crazy not to ask for more. True, his shows went on successfully without him, too, but his rise to stardom was meteoric and not restricted to one show. |
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