HAMILTON Principal Cast Replacements — Page 41

Hamilton also poured a huge amount of resources into promoting Javi as the one to see once the OBC left. So many headlines about "Meet the new Hamilton" and "See Javier, the sexy Hamilton". The general theatregoing audience know Javi's name more than most of the cast, and they want to see him. Last january I attended a performance he called out and I was startled at how unhappy people were at getting a replacement.



I can definitely see them not wanting to throw that away. Especially when Javi's not billed above the title, no one's getting a refund if he's not in, and he is still putting out an incredible performance every night he is in.

He does NOT have two terminal illnesses. As far as I know, he did not disclose what kind of cancer he had but his treatments were successful. He is also HIV positive, hardly considered terminal anymore. It is a chronic but managable illness and people live complete full lives with it.

You are absolutely right. Thank you for that call out. It was late and I was speaking more broadly than I realized. I somehow forgot that HIV was reclassified as an infectious disease a few years ago. My apologies.

Javi's extended and it seems Mandy has as well, so you should stand a good chance of seeing all of them in the roles (Barring illness/vacation)

I come back to this thread on the daily in hopes of seeing some sort of announcement about Lexi leaving. Eliza is my favorite character and after traveling over 18 hours to see the show and waiting for 10 months, I was so disappointed with her portrayal of Eliza and also her vocals. It sounds like she was great before, even in ITH, and the videos I've seen of her were good but hearing her in person I felt so empty and disappointed. Maybe she was just having an off day? I'll be going back next July and I doubt she'll be there, but you never know!

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I saw it in March with Javi (first time back after the injury), BVD, and Lexi; and I'm not gonna lie, I would not mind seeing a different Eliza when I go back in January and June. Seems like Breaker would make a good Burr, so I'd be happy to see him if he is still there in January.

But I'm still waiting for Cynthia Erivo to be cast as Burr!

secretschuylersister said: "I come back to this thread on the daily in hopes of seeing some sort of announcement about Lexi leaving. Eliza is my favorite character and after traveling over 18 hours to see the show and waiting for 10 months, I was so disappointed with her portrayal of Eliza and also her vocals. It sounds like she was great before, even in ITH, and the videos I've seen of her were good but hearing her in person I felt so empty and disappointed. Maybe she was just having an off day? I'll be going back next July and I doubt she'll be there, but you never know!"

I was pretty underwhelmed with Lexi too. I felt like in a lot of the songs, her voice was completely drowned out. When I saw Ari Afsar in Chicago, I thought she was amazing and brought everything to the role that Lexi did not.

Joanna A. Jones is now listed as Broadway's Peggy/Maria on the show's website (with two sets of parentheses), even though there hasn't been a peep of official casting news from their press team. Why do they do this.

BroadwayConcierge said: "Joanna A. Jones is now listed as Broadway's Peggy/Maria on the show's website(with two sets of parentheses), even though there hasn't been a peep of official casting news from their press team. Why do they do this."

I noticed they've added Erin Clemons, who's listed as being in the ensemble and an understudy for the 3 sisters. But I can't recall anyone in the ensemble announcing they're leaving the show.

From the sound of Erin Clemons's bio it looks like she would be the W5 track, currently played by Elizabeth Judd. Judd is still listed though and I haven't heard about whether she was leaving.

They also added Amber Ardolino as a swing. I believe she is from the Chicago cast. And I imagine she's replacing Kamille Upshaw, who I adored and whose last performance was yesterday.

MyLife said: "From the sound of Erin Clemons's bio it looks like she would be the W5 track, currently played by Elizabeth Judd. Judd is still listed though and I haven't heard about whether she was leaving.

They also added Amber Ardolino as a swing. I believe she is from the Chicago cast. And I imagine she's replacing Kamille Upshaw, who I adored and whose last performance was yesterday."

Eliza Ohman is replacing Kamille, and Amber seems to have taken Eliza's place as a universal swing. I assumed Erin would be replacing Elizabeth, but like you said she hasn't said anything about leaving.
She could be one of the people who prefer to leave without an announcement of any kind.

HennySlay said: "I wouldn't be suprised if Judd is joining the second national tour as one of the sisters."

File under "things that would make me travel to see the 2NT"

I hope she's not leaving, I've been dying to see her and it hasn't happened yet

Judd must be leaving. Erin is the new W5 + Sisters U/S. Maybe Judd is moving to Standby after Syndee leaves.

As I said in the Chicago thread, something is telling me to keep an eye out for Samantha Ware, learning an Eliza track seems like they want her to take the role eventually....

^ think Jasmine Cephas Jones could come back to the show as Eliza? Because I'd pay to watch that.