Hamilton - Victoria Palace Theatre

^ lol yes

I'm going to agree with that. And also mention that that may be missing the point. 

However to ensure there's no confusion, short answer: No. 

I'd go even further and suggest that WEW is possibly trying to make a point of her own by "humorously" missing the casting point.

Fact is, the author has specified that non-white performers are to play the majority of leading and featured roles. There's a role specifically for a white performer, and there's no reason not to have white performers in the ensemble and filling out bit parts (like they have on Broadway). If I remember correctly, the furore over the Broadway casting call was because they specifically called for non-white performers, rather than calling for unspecified performers (to play non-white roles). You can't discriminate against the performers in the first place, though obviously you are free to cast whoever you want. And if you want to follow the author's specifications (spoiler: they do), then white performers will be free to audition but are INCREDIBLY unlikely to get a major role that isn't King George.

Yes, most of us who were alive then (and many who weren't) know that story, and equally know it was a) utter BS b) a poor decision to cast Pryce in the role. 

Thankfully we have come some way since then, Hamilton being an example of that. There is colour blind casting in the traditional sense, which is obviously a good thing, and then there's the foregrounding of roles for POC. For some shows the colour of the actors' skin IS very much important, Hamilton is one of those shows. 

As someone mentioned above, if the talk of further mixing up the ethnicities of the performers in Hamilton over here are true, then that's an exciting evolution of the show. 

I think the more interesting question is to what extent the London cast's diversity will reflect British rather than American questions of national identity. Hints that they'll cast Middle Eastern and South Asian actors show the producers are at least thinking about this; if so, it's a really good idea. Given Brexit and the migrant crisis, Hamilton just might resonate in Europe in unanticipated ways.

I kind of wondered that when Lexi Lawson replaced Philippa Soo. I'm certain isn't intentional to cast to have fewer people of any particularly ethnicity, but the results are interesting (however you want to interpret that).

At the same time I suppose you can also see it as them not staying strictly with Angelica = black; Eliza = Asian, Hamilton = Latino, etc... especially since Mandy Gonzalez is the next Angelica and Michael Luwoye is the new Ham alternate.

Rory was great, but the crowd was really unwieldy and it's possible the NYPD just got fed up. Maybe Ham producers realized without Lin there that the crowd wasn't worth the downturn in social media coverage? My other theory is they wanted to wind down once the weather got harsher and it was easier to ease people out of it now rather than later.

I walked past it the day Cynthia Erivo did the Ham4Ham show. She had finished, but I saw the cops not even let Javier through the street (he was trying to walk around the crowd) to get to the stage door.

OMG No way! I was there that day! It's even possible you saw me! 

Isn't this like saying "we were at the same sporting event"?

The live ones I really enjoyed were the 3 Kings doing The Schuyler Sisters and the girls doing My Shot. The digital ones I loved JaBurr, Jasmine doing My Man, Pippa doing Copland, Lin at Les Mis and especially the White House ones.