"Hamilton" coming to Cincinnati....question about its casting

Tskware

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Hmm...

Go to Hamilton or watch college basketball?

Go to Hamilton or listen to Led Zep/Stones/Beatles/Allmans on my stereo?

Go to Hamilton... or do ANYTHING else?

Pretty easy decision to ignore Hamilton.

Feel the same way about Phantom, Les Mis, Wicked, Chicago et al? If so, you don't know what you are missing. Really good Broadway shows are impressive as heck, IMO.

That being said, I won't pay $500 to see Hamilton, think the most I ever paid for Broadway was maybe $150 a ticket.
 

pitinoshairplugs

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So I see tickets are almost $500. I guess I'll have to pass.

But I do have a question.

By what justification are Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson and Washington played by African-American actors? I mean, clearly that's historically false. I though the term for that was cultural appropriation or something along those lines.

I've really heard very little outcry about this, and I really don't care, other than to point out that, casting say, white actors for Harriet Tubman, or Frederic Douglass, or Crispus Attucks would be met with huge indignation and outcry. And rightfully so.

So why the inconsistency?

Why would there be outcry? It's part of the charm of the production.

I saw the original crew on Broadway a few years ago. It's the most remarkable piece of artistic performance I've ever seen. It's modern day Mozart. That level of genius.
 

DSmith21

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Meh, Hamilton < Springtime for Hitler.

 
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Why would there be outcry? It's part of the charm of the production.

I saw the original crew on Broadway a few years ago. It's the most remarkable piece of artistic performance I've ever seen. It's modern day Mozart. That level of genius.

Why’s there an outcry when white actors play non whites?

As with about all of “progressivism”, inconsistencies abound.
Why would there be outcry? It's part of the charm of the production.

I saw the original crew on Broadway a few years ago. It's the most remarkable piece of artistic performance I've ever seen. It's modern day Mozart. That level of genius.
cry when
 

funKYcat75

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Why’s there an outcry when white actors play non whites?

As with about all of “progressivism”, inconsistencies abound.

cry when
Again, anyone is free to write and cast your play as you see fit. I'm not sure I've heard an outcry of "white actors playing non-whites" lately. I've heard an outcry of white people donning black/brown makeup and portraying black people, but that's far from Broadway. Perhaps if Daveed Diggs used some white paint and walked around mocking Thomas Jefferson there would have been this so-called outrage.
 
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d2atTech

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Is the play even good, or are people just going to see it to say they saw Hamilton?

I'd pay $500 to see it with Lin-Manuel Miranda starring just to say I did, but $500 to see some randoms from Cincinnati perform? No chance.

I really don't understand the appeal or why people are excited in Cincinnati, but I've never really been a theater guy.

It’s emperors new clothes man. Watch this rap video for free:



It's orders of magnitude better than anything from Hamilton. If this song were a movie, it would have won an oscar. Also, it makes me proud to be an America. George Washington kicks ***.
 

cole854

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With that said, Hamilton is the best musical ever.

C. Yes, it's expensive, but it keeps the cheap and ignorant people from the audience...much more enjoyable to be around people who enjoy a great show.

D. Happy for the cast to give Pence an earful. His sorry a$$ probably paid $1k a ticket to attend. I am sure none of the crew and cast wanted him to attend, so they gave him his money's worth.

I thought your ignorance might have stopped with the first statement, then you kept going.
 

Hank Camacho

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Unless it is made by Trey Parker or Matt Stone, there is zero chance that I will ever watch any musical. I had a boss in college who would listen to broadway soundtracks all day, every day.

The memory still haunts me.
 

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-saw wicked during my last trip to NYC. Incredible.

-dont give a poop about skintone of actors. Its the playing loose/fast with facts and historical inaccuracies that irritate me. The songs are *really* good however.

-wife had very significant roles in productions at the opera house in lex years ago. she was paid to go to school for singing...therefore, ive seen lots of musical performance. I much prefer classical vocal performance. Opera is 2nd musicals are a distant 3rd.

-on that note i would call showtunes "pop culture" at best in lieu of proper culture. Sibelius is culture, rogers and hammerstein is entertainment.
 
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