Leslie may have, but he actually won a Tony for Hamilton and leveraged that into a successful album and US tour.

Orchestrations is the one I get worked up over…

Yeah, the producers' attempts at PR and their personal dealings with Oak and Mandy have been fatally tone-deaf. If this is the end for this show, it really breaks my heart that it had to end this way, when it is clear the cast, crew, and creatives have given it all they had.

Honestly, I love Phantom of the Opera, I've seen it more times than a sane person probably would (I also see almost every superhero movie), and there are valid reasons that those shows have reached icon/tourist trap status. They're also the introduction to theater for many people, so I have nothing against them, I…

Oak's run definitely wasn't delayed for Dave's sake. Rumor has it Oak wasn't ready.

Back when Oak was cast in February, it was pretty clear the production was expecting Tony awards to help get through the summer. You don't just bank on an unknown to follow a multi-platinum recording artist with a relatively affluent fan base. Tony awards didn't come, and neither did Hamilton fans.

Fantastic. Seeing it was my favorite theatre experience ever, unseating seeing the Hamilton OBC.

The longest running shows on Broadway are not the best musicals ever written. Marvel movies gross more than Oscar winners. Does the fact that Great Comet can't sell tickets on Broadway mean it is unsuited for a Broadway audience? Maybe, but it doesn't mean it's bad.

Oak was bought out of the last three weeks of his contract under the assumption that Mandy would make up for that in ticket sales. An actor can be fired under an Equity contract, but that is not what happened here.

The problem is, fans of Hamilton (and particularly of Oak, who was not Tony-nominated and had hardly the most visible role in the show), are not the ones who buy full price tickets. Older audiences pay more (makes sense, they have more money), while Oak's fans are more likely to rush the show. But $40 tickets are not…

I read this a few weeks after the inauguration. The fact that it was written in the 80s but feels like it could have been written yesterday was incredibly depressing.

The downstairs plots are quite weak. Rufus and Jenna are turning in great performances, though.