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Post by partytentdown on Jun 15, 2017 22:08:07 GMT
Is it Titus Andromedon?
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Post by Sari on Jun 15, 2017 22:08:11 GMT
Oh My God.
That's the only thing i'm going to say...
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Post by ali973 on Jun 15, 2017 22:08:24 GMT
Guys- I seriously think we're being trolled.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 22:08:58 GMT
Hamilton isn't colour-blind casting, Hamilton is (King George aside) colour-bent casting. If authorial intent means a damn to anyone, then you could no more have a white man playing this particular version of Hamilton than you could have a white man playing Martin Luther King Jr in Katori Hall's The Mountaintop.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 15, 2017 22:10:19 GMT
I'm looking forward to this announcement more just so the topic changes a bit.
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Post by ShoesForRent on Jun 15, 2017 22:10:48 GMT
Thank you for saying what everyone is thinking! He nailed his audition and he was robbed of the part! Robbed I say!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 22:10:55 GMT
Come on..you're killing me here. You can't have white people play brown people..are you guys serious, do I really need to teach you this? I thought you watched Season 5 Episode 5 of Orange is the New Black. If not, please go watch it. But... Alexander Hamilton was white?
I have no problem with diversity, I really truly don't, but the roles in Hamilton, having black/brown people play those roles opened up for the roles to be played by anyone of any ethnicity. Or at least, that should of been what it has achieved...
I'm not saying a white person should be cast, but I'm saying it should be open to anyone. But I know, if Lin has said that, that is what goes and I accept that.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 22:11:54 GMT
Clearly this is an issue that get people pissed off more than anything in the world so can we just move on before it gets into an argument, its not worth it.
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Post by ShoesForRent on Jun 15, 2017 22:12:00 GMT
I'm looking forward to this announcement more just so the topic changes a bit. I'll change it Robbed I say!
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 15, 2017 22:13:02 GMT
Come on..you're killing me here. You can't have white people play brown people..are you guys serious, do I really need to teach you this? I thought you watched Season 5 Episode 5 of Orange is the New Black. If not, please go watch it. But... Alexander Hamilton was white?
I have no problem with diversity, I really truly don't, but the roles in Hamilton, having black/brown people play those roles opened up for the roles to be played by anyone of any ethnicity. Or at least, that should of been what it has achieved...
No, that is not what should have been achieved.
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Post by partytentdown on Jun 15, 2017 22:13:08 GMT
OK he's tweeting about other shows now.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 22:13:10 GMT
Come on..you're killing me here. You can't have white people play brown people..are you guys serious, do I really need to teach you this? I thought you watched Season 5 Episode 5 of Orange is the New Black. If not, please go watch it. But... Alexander Hamilton was white?
I have no problem with diversity, I really truly don't, but the roles in Hamilton, having black/brown people play those roles opened up for the roles to be played by anyone of any ethnicity. Or at least, that should of been what it has achieved...
I'm not saying a white person should be cast, but I'm saying it should be open to anyone. But I know, if Lin has said that, that is what goes and I accept that.
A big part of Hamilton is about immigration and how that's what the country was founded on. Alexander Hamilton was born in the Caribbean and immigrated to the USA. Hence the idea of having the American characters played by non-whites and the British character played by a white person, as immigration is such a hot topic around the world right now, particularly in America.
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Post by ShoesForRent on Jun 15, 2017 22:14:42 GMT
Ah ah- I changed it!
ROBBED!
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Post by geeky101 on Jun 15, 2017 22:14:42 GMT
Come on..you're killing me here. You can't have white people play brown people..are you guys serious, do I really need to teach you this? I thought you watched Season 5 Episode 5 of Orange is the New Black. If not, please go watch it. But... Alexander Hamilton was white?
I have no problem with diversity, I really truly don't, but the roles in Hamilton, having black/brown people play those roles opened up for the roles to be played by anyone of any ethnicity. Or at least, that should of been what it has achieved...
I'm not saying a white person should be cast, but I'm saying it should be open to anyone. But I know, if Lin has said that, that is what goes and I accept that.
Jon Rua is also white and covers Hamilton on Broadway. His parents are of ethnic origin but he was born and raised in New Jersey, so how does that work? To be clear I have no problem with diversity either and am all for it too, even if I didn't express it particularly eloquently in one of my posts. ali973, your condescension is quite something. I am sorry I'm quite so far below you. And yep, roll on the announcement!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 22:15:06 GMT
Please do bear in mind I have been following literally nothing about Hamilton other than the soundtrack, so any of these issues that have been discussed, I am not aware. I don't even read this thread other than when the casting was announced.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 22:16:50 GMT
But... Alexander Hamilton was white?
I have no problem with diversity, I really truly don't, but the roles in Hamilton, having black/brown people play those roles opened up for the roles to be played by anyone of any ethnicity. Or at least, that should of been what it has achieved...
I'm not saying a white person should be cast, but I'm saying it should be open to anyone. But I know, if Lin has said that, that is what goes and I accept that.
Jon Rua is also white and covers Hamilton on Broadway. His parents are of ethnic origin but he was born and raised in New Jersey, so how does that work? To be clear I have no problem with diversity either and am all for it too, even if I didn't express it particularly eloquently in one of my posts. ali973, your condescension is quite something. I am sorry I'm quite so far below you. And yep, roll on the announcement! Jon Rua was in the ensemble. The ensemble is formed of all races, including white people and the most suitable people are picked to be understudies, no matter what their race is. He would never get the part full time.
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Post by theatremadness on Jun 15, 2017 22:17:07 GMT
......... (and it's a screenshot taken from twitter, so no money or attention paid to the Daily Mail by clicking on a link thankfully!)
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Post by geeky101 on Jun 15, 2017 22:18:13 GMT
It's Jamael Westman as Hamilton and Michael Jibson as King George III.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 15, 2017 22:18:23 GMT
Jon Rua is Colombian and is not currently in any cast of Hamilton, as he's directing Jesus Christ Superstar in St. Louis.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 22:18:49 GMT
Ash Hunter is alternate Hamilton.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 15, 2017 22:18:51 GMT
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Post by ShoesForRent on Jun 15, 2017 22:19:22 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 22:19:53 GMT
Okay, as I thought minimal excitement as no idea who either of those are.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 22:22:26 GMT
Well, that's, um, yeah. Wooo?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 22:22:30 GMT
Ah, I didn't know Rua was Colombian!
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