New York (AP) -Lelie Odom Jr., one of the original members of the Broadway “Hamilton” musical of Broadway, is returning for another shot, a role that says “gave me life.”
Ody, who played Aaron Burr in front of Alexander Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, will return to his winning role of the Tony Award at the Richard Rodgers Theater from September 9 to November 23.
“I was born on the stage of the Richard Rodgers in many ways. He gave me life in some way,” he tells The Associated Press. “I’m really looking forward to it.”
Ody and Miranda left the program in July 2016 after the same performance. Odom had his leg with “Hamilton” since he began acting in early 2015 outside Broadway.
“I look at him with love, I do,” he says. “It was the beginning of so much for me. It was the beginning of a career with which I always dreamed. It’s just the beginning. It’s Genesis.”
He estimates that he plays about 500 times, but he never became boring: “I still had a revelation for me, and it still gave me reason to look a little deeper and concentrate a little more.”
When he returns, he will be with a new company of actors and will bring to the audience his willingness to discover at the time, something he says he learned doing “Hamilton.”
“I want you to see something exciting and alive. And the best way to do it is to be open and present at that time,” he adds.
Ody obtained another nomination of Tony last year for the comedy “Purlie Victorios: not confederate through the cotton patch” by Ossie Davis.
After “Hamilton”, he was on the big screen in “Glass onion” with Daniel Craig and “The Many Saints of Newark” with Alessandro Nivola, and portrayed Sam Cooke in “One Night in Miami.”
He lent his voice to the animated series “Central Park” and starred with Kate Hudson in Sia’s “music.” Their television loans include “Abbott Elementary” and “Blue’s Plues & You”.
Ody, who studied at the Carnegie Mellon University, became the youngest member of the cast in the Broadway company of “Rent”. Before “Hamilton”, he appeared on television in the series “Smash” and “CSI: Miami”, in the movie “Red Tails” and on Broadway in “Leap of Faith”.
Duration The Pandemic, Disney+ Broadcast a filmed version of the original Broadway cast of “Hamilton”, who Miranda has called “an incredible” 28 Yankees of actors. “
The Broadway Show won 11 Tony Awards, including the best new musical, the best book and the best score. The cast album has been a box office success, and the show has traveled full houses.
The musical draws the rise and fall of statesman Hamilton and emphasizes his orphan and immigrant roots: “Immigrant. We do the job!” It is a line that receives a great applause, as well as its almost Greek tragedy of a fall, fed by ambition.
Based on a biography of the winning author of the Pulitzer Ron Chernow Award and the duration of the presidency of the first black president, the show was optimistic and ambitious, adjusting Broadway traditions, but respecting them too. Ooma says that Chernow’s biography is rereading to prepare.
Many in the cast next to Ooma were relatively unknown to the broader world when they took the stage: Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Christopher Jackson, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos and Phillipa Soo. Miranda was a brand.
Ody, who shoots Hamilton dead, sang in many of the best songs in the musical, including “Wait”, dear Theodosia “, the room where it happens” and his obedient servant. ″
He says he sings the concerts of the songs, but he will have to learn the score again. “One of the most important gifts he gave me was this association with some recognizable songs that people like to listen,” he says.
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