Why Does Michael Riedel hate "Hamilton"? — Page 9

macnyc said: "Hellob said: Anyway, I think whether you love/hate his shows, his twitter, his hype- he's still a great thing to happen to Bway and will hopefully inspire the next generation to realize you can be cool and love theater. So many "cool" people think theater is laaaaame, he's changing that perception and that's something to applaud.

Absolutely! Just look at what Lin-Manuel has done with the Ham4Ham shows. He's generously giving up his time (the commodity he probably has the least of, nowadays) to highlight other performers and shows, both on Broadway and off, and even give a glimpse into the inner workings of his show (the Ham4Ham with the stage manager was genius, I thought). So even if you're not able to afford tickets or you have to wait a long time to find something affordable, you can attend the lottery if you have time and take part at least in this!

"I have not thought of that before, very excellent point! Giving Back is always good, and time as you say is more important than money sometimes

Why does he hate Hamilton? I don't think he does; he loves all this free publicity he gets especially from people who have seen it or are soon to see it. I'm sure he loves Hamilton the way basically theater and BWW posters are still gushing about Hamilton and hating Riedal on these message boards.

It's getting to the point where someone will ask " do you mean the actors actually brush their teeth and go to the bathroom?"

Don't get me wrong LM is very generous with his time and ability to offer the lottery. I'm sure he gets requests now for PR and publicity from hundred of magazines and theater interviewers, NPR. The show deserves high accolades and it deserves all of the plenty of good reviews that it received. But...how many of us remember the names of people or critics that loved the show aside from the NYT?

Lastly I love the show and the OBC release. I thought even the Barnes and Noble pics were cute. The show is very very good but really, it's not my reason for living. (And you don't have to hate on me, I love Hamilton just like you do, but Riedal, Riedal Riedal is just what he loves). He'll be more upset if you don't buy his trashy book.

The thinking that these sites are promoting Hamilton incessantly by mentioning all of these huge celebrities, and not acknowledging that they are only doing as a means of improving their search engine rankings by associating their sites as one that provides information on Beyonce, Jay-Z, and all of these other huge celebrities is a pretty critical flaw in logic.

It is the same thing as when Playbill will dream-cast a show, and it is all of these odd choices for roles, but coincidentally mention a bunch of people who are huge SEO fodder, and then people try to suggest better people for the role? Dreamcasting the show was never the point to begin with.