ColorTheHours048 said: "This is really bizarre. Both the casting and the behind-the-scenes stuff we don't know. Even if the producers are unhappy with Oak's performance, surely there's a better way to handle it than cutting his run short to only a month and change and replacing him with someone completely too old and deranged for the part. Yes, Patinkin is a legend, but that legend is based almost entirely on his younger days. And let's face it, he's not the same actor he used to be.
All of this is bizarre.
I have never been a big Patinkin fan after Evita because I think he became a member of the "Al Pacino 'Why be subtle when you can overact?' school" way too early in his career. But he can be excellent when he is directed, and he had been outstanding in all 6 seasons of Homeland, in a role that requires a lot of underacting.
I was always mystified when so many people got so excited about the 'Oak' announcement, as is participation in Hamilton automatically makes you more 'everything' than has actually been earned. He is an actor who 99% of the theatre going public has never heard of (99.9%). Patinkin could be a quick study and have a 3 week opening, at a time in the season when attendance has gone down the past couple of years. (I remember being extremely surprised last year that attendance did not remain at peak until Labor Day; but, rather, a few weeks earlier). He could be thinking that he wants to see if he enjoys being in it before he is willing to commit to a longer stay. Maybe the producers are experimenting with stunt casting as a way to sustain business, although I would think that is going to be hard with that complex staging.
Maybe Oak got a TV show? Maybe he hates it? etc. etc.
Updated On: 7/26/17 at 11:13 AM
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