NOBODY TOUCH ME

EXCUSE ME WHILE I SCREAM

singers + mic stands

Nikki M. James: one hand on mic

Betsy Wolfe: gently touches mic

Leslie Odom, Jr.: sways mic stand gently

Jonathan Groff: chills with one hand on mic and one on stand as he cries softly

Andrew Rannells: rests hand on mic while rubbing torso emotionally

Aaron Tveit: grips mic stand with intense poise

Jeremy Jordan: grabs mic stand in fit of passion

Ben Platt: throttles mic stand

Cynthia Erivo: ignores mic stand; just plucks out mic and yells

!! leslie odom jr. sings without you from rent!

cAN WE TALK ABOUT LESLIE’S G U N S

i just saw a comment that said if La La Land went to broadway, Laura Osnes should be Mia and Aaron Tveit should be Seb and im SCREAMING

lbr I'd love literally any excuse to see Aaron Tveit and Laura Osnes singing and dancing together in something, including my daydreams

but the movie already makes a pretty gross misstep by using a white guy as the representative face of jazz

any potential stage musical should probably correct that......saaaaaaaaay, with Leslie Odom Jr?

— I grew up listening. I grew up pressing “record” and then pressing “play.” — And did you like the way you sounded? Because nobody likes the way they sound when they listen back to themselves. — Oh, I still don’t! But I’m able to analyze it. [x]

Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr. talks diversity on Broadway - Watch the full video

hippasilla:

— Being in the chorus of Rent must be quite grueling. — Not at 17. At 17, what’s grueling? My grandmother lived in Jamaica, Queens, which might as well have been Jamaica the island because it was an hour commute from her house to work every day. I didn’t even feel it. On a two-show day, I would go back and forth. I can’t imagine doing that now; I live a 15-minute walk from work now and on two-show days, there is no way I am taking that 15-minute walk. I am taking a nap in between shows. But when I was 17, I would take a bus to the last stop on the E train, and the E all the way to Times Square. It was such a surreal experience. I didn’t feel anything then. The only thing I did feel was I went right from community theater and singing in church to Broadway—there were no in between stops—and so it was a little challenging emotionally because I didn’t understand the professional theater. I didn’t understand the people didn’t go out and bowl every night after the show or hang out at people’s houses—that people had families and they came to work and left. I was the new kid—literally—in town and kind of alone because a lot of those people had been doing the show already. [x]

Okieriete Onaodowan and Anthony Ramos listen to Leslie Odom Jr. record “Wait for It”

x, x

My (WIP) dreamcast for a stage musical Prince of Egypt

I’m still making my mind up in some places, but this based off of the two casts I’ve seen from @finelythreadedsky and @stagesofbrown, as well as some of my own ideas!

Moses - Adam Jacobs/George Abud

Rameses - Leslie Odom Jr.

Miriam - Arielle Jacobs/Lindsay Mendez

Aaron - Daveed Diggs

Tzipporah - Cynthia Erivo/Patina Miller

Jethro - Brian Stokes Mitchell/J. C. Montgomery

Pharaoh Seti - Norm Lewis

Queen Tuya - Audra McDonald

Yocheved - Mandy Gonzalez/Lea Michele

Hotep - James Monroe Iglehart

Huy - Aziz Ansari

LESLIE AS RAMESES WAS MEANT TO BE. SERIOUSLY. IF YOU NEED PROOF, WATCH THIS VIDEO I DID WHERE I CAST RAMESES AS AARON BURR.

I SUPPORT THIS LIKE NOTHING ELSE.

No way, that was you?? I was the one going on about my Hamilton Disney cast in the comments!

daveed diggs doing his best jeff goldblum impression

Leslie Odom Jr. and Thomas Sanders, everyone! x

Will @thatsthat24 be King George III, The Fifth?!?

Happy Trails, Lin, Leslie, and Phillipa.