blaxx said: "Margo319 said: "sarahb22 said: "At this point I'm asking myself if it might be better to see the show in Chicago than NYC. Which version will have better casting? Hmmm...
The original Broadway cast is always the best. Out of all the people who auditioned in the world, those people were determined the best of the best. I have no doubt Hamilton in Chicago will be great, but the best cast is always the Broadway one. Touring casts never compare to the OBC either.
You must be very young to have this perception. Broadway musicals have a very long history of having replacement casts of the highest caliber. As improbable as it may seem to you, this show will have future performers giving much better performances than the OBC.
A lot of fans have a special attachment to original casts, but that doesn't make them 'best'.
Okay, I love this show and cast as much as the next poster...so much so that I am almost caught up in the hysteria of buying some insanely priced "one last time" ticket. But sanity prevails.
If anyone watched the boring Charlie Rose show when he interviewed a group of cast members together (Renee, Daveed, Leslie, PHillippa, I forget who else)-I think it was on this show, where Renee said - and I don't think it was false modesty - that one of the great things about being the 'first' in the role was that everyone thinks you are so great...but then 10 yrs later when they've seen several others perform the same role, they realize lots of people can do it.
Now, I paraphrase but this was basically what she said. I am sure she was being modest, humble, and down to earth - which is frankly how she impressed me generally BUT I still believe there to be an element of truth to what she says. And she's a performer/singer/actress. She knows what's out there. She knows her competition. She didn't come to this work yesterday.
DAveed also said on another show - someone else also posted this - that he was not by any means special as a rapper that he could speak lines/words so rapidly. W
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