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CoffeeBreak said: "Great book - and enjoy Bareiillis but the rest gives us big pause. The book writer and leadership do not seem right but rather "of the moment"."

I see it for Arden but I can’t imagine how Ruhl comes across as “of the moment.” I mean this with no offensive to a very great playwright but her last very notable work was Becky, Nurse of Salem which is nearly a decade old now. Her last Pulitzer nomination was nearly *two decad

I agree with Kad about Julie probably getting a reconsideration in these next few years (especially her film work) however I've always wondered if we were sure Spider Man actually led to a decrease in offers for her.

She definitely took the reputational brunt in the public imagination but the only place Julie Taymor has really been absent is the Broadway stage. She has never been someone who was interested only in the Broadway stage.

As said above

Juliette Lewis may not be an A-lister but my eyes still popped out of my head as I screamed "JULIETTE LEWIS???" so they've got me. 

I think the whole cast sounds great although Josh gives me Brad vibes not Rocky but I'm probably just mentally typecasting him. 

It also brings me a particular pleasure to see MJ Rodriguez work steadily after practically being ignored for being the beating heart of Pose. Awards bodies latched onto Porter because

Again, I'm not "taking an approach" I am looking at the facts and asking a question about those facts. You guys are acting as if I'm calling you bad people for liking Hamilton. Liking or disliking Hamilton is not the point of the discussion.

(However, I do take issue with the idea of there being nuance to Hamilton's (the man) views on slavery. People who were actually anti-slavery did not own slaves or marry into slave owning dynasties. The words of his

quizking101 said: "witchoftheeast2 said: "I want to be sensitive towards this, I do, but at the same time I think if we take every single problematic element with every single show, there won't be anything left. No show is perfect."

I concur here. Even the most exhaustively researched shows are going to have omissions or dramatic license. It’s not possible to know EVERYTHING, let alone be able to dramatize it effectively.

I tend to n

Zeppie2022 said: "Ke3 said: "OMG never mind!

No one is trying to cancel Hamilton I was merely asking if people thought the increased scholarship around his connection to slavery would impact the future of the work. God forbid we discuss the work on a board devoted to theatre."

"Hamilton" will probably run another 10-20 years and a revival of it would be at least quarter of a century from now. We have no idea if the issue you brought

OMG never mind!

No one is trying to cancel Hamilton I was merely asking if people thought the increased scholarship around his connection to slavery would impact the future of the work. God forbid we discuss the work on a board devoted to theatre. 

Considering The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda premiered in 2019 I didn't think this would be the first time any of you heard questions about Hamilton's storytelling. 

My bad, I forgot the demographics of

witchoftheeast2 said: "I want to be sensitive towards this, I do, but at the same time I think if we take every single problematic element with every single show, there won't be anything left. No show is perfect."

I definitely agree with this to some extent but Hamilton goes so far as to imply Alexander was anti-slavery. And while I don't need my works of fiction to be documentaries, it does feel like Lin throws that in there because he himself is worried abo

I just watched a very good video about Alexander Hamilton's deep ties to the slave trade and found it so fascinating. Walked away wondering if we'll ever see a revival of Hamilton after it closes? Lin claims not to have known about Hamilton's involvement in the slave trade (he used to deny he had any, until scholars made it irrefutable), but the man was deeply involved. Which means the biggest musical of the last 20 years is a deification of a slave owner cast with a bunch of

Separately, Elliott is the part of this I’m least excited about. Company was beautifully staged (even if Jesse Green disagreed) but textually, I hate it more every time I think about it. So many strange choices to twist the story into shapes it didn’t wanna take instead of just casting a woman and doing the show. Joanne offering to have her husband turn Bobbie into a kept woman because you’re too afraid to touch lesbianism but keeping “i’m the next bride&rdq