What if Hamilton Wasn't Around this Season?

No one can deny that this season would have been drastically different if Hamilton had arrived late LAST season as many people thought that it would. But how different?



After seeing Randy Rainbow's "Sorry You're Not Hamilton" parody video (if you have not seen it yet, go look, it's pretty darn funny), it got me thinking about just what this season MIGHT have been like without Hamilton around.



Would shows like Tuck and American Psycho have survived longer? What shows would be going head to head for the awards that Hamilton is currently a lock for on Sunday like Best Musical and Best Score? Not to mention all the other ones it's favored to win. What would have filled up those record 16 nominations slots that Hamilton has?



What WOULD Broadway look like right now without Hamilton?

Shuffle Along would win best musical. Otherwise it would be the same.

ebontoyan said: "Who has time for what ifs??!



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Ask the people who saw If/Then

Scarlet Leigh said: "No one can deny that this season would have been drastically different if Hamilton had arrived late LAST season as many people thought that it would...What WOULD Broadway look like right now without Hamilton?"

I'm confused. are you implying that if Hamilton had moved to Broadway last spring it wouldn't still be open? that it wouldn't have been a big hit? I agree that waiting to open and therefore being eligible for Tonys this year has obviously kept it in the national spotlight longer and probably helped it become the phenomenon it is, but I think it would still be a huge hit if it had happened last year.

as for awards...i'd say best musical would be Shuffle Along or Waitress, score would be Waitress, choreo Savion for Shuffle, direction maybe John Doyle or George C Wolfe, actor Danny Burstein, featured actress perhaps a Color Purple lady or Jane Krakowski (with probable noms for Keala or Kimiko from Waitress). featured actor...someone from Shuffle Along perhaps. many of the technical awards I could see Hamilton not winning this season already (I think it will wil between 7 and 10 Tonys or so). maybe one or two of the closed shows could have snuck in for some noms (possibly with several additional noms for Spring Awakening, like Krysta Rodriguez perhaps). The Tonys last year were already very exciting in my opinion, much more so than this year. Hamilton having been in the mix would have been kind of insane. this year's Tonys would be kind of mediocre (or maybe Shuffle and Waitress would have been an exciting battle without Ham).

Updated On: 6/7/16 at 03:11 PM

People would have a lot more money in their pockets

it's hard to say without knowing what would have come in but didn't. But assuming the fiction that nothing else would have come in, then the awards for which Hamilton was excluded provide some measure, although complicated by the fact that the presumptive winner was excluded from the major award you would look to. I think it would have been one of those off years in which the jukebox show wins for lack of a quality alternative.

CarlosAlberto said: "If Hamilton wasn't around this season I would be denied the displeasure of some of you BITCHING, MOANING and WHINING.

Oh wait, that's what some of you do anyway regardless of what's playing on Broadway.

My bad!







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This is true

Updated On: 6/7/16 at 05:10 PM

@After Eight "No 'arbiters of culture' lecturing us on why we need bow and scrape before it."

Yes, imagine a world in which the only arbiter of culture was that posturing toll, After Eight.


"Seems like paradise, no?"

No, seems like hell.

Scarlet Leigh said: "gypsy101 said: "It would certainly still be open but I suppose that also brings up the question of what would have become of it IF it has to come in last minute last season to face off with Fun Home? Would it have become AS BIG with something else there to challenge it early on? As it is not, it went unchallenged by any other show for so long into the season that by the time the next closest contender's showed up to the party, it was already a MASSIVE hit unlike anything we've seen in years.

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Yes, I've always wondered about these things. Would Michael Cerveris have beaten Leslie Odom Jr? Would Christian Borle have beaten Daveed Diggs? It's fun to think about I suppose, though personally I believe Cerveris would have still won, but Daveed would win over Borle.

Next year is going to be competitive, with a strong face off of three great musicals: Dear Evan Hansen, Nattasha. Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, and Nerds

Nerds is coming next season?