Unsurprisingly, it has been criticised for both these omissions — criticisms that resurfaced last year when the filmed version landed on Disney Plus, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests."The nature of theatre is that none of the words have changed [since 2015] ... but the world is so profoundly different, and the conversations we're having are so much more illuminated, that now the show takes on a different meaning.
"And we need to embrace the conversations that come from that, and recognise and talk about the things that are in the show, and the things that are not in the show, and ask questions about why they're not," says Kail.who know the cast album word-for-word — and the only thing that put a stop to Hamilton's sell-out run on the West End was the pandemic.
Kail told The Stage Show: "Even though our show is very much about the founding of our country, it's [also] about the spirit of revolution."
I thought it was controversial to have Bert Newton play Alexander Hamilton, but it works!