“Pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, sir?”
“It depends who’s asking,” answers the rising political figure in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s when the pair first meet. Tony-winning Leslie Odom, Jr. was the first to utter those lines on Broadway. And now he’s back.
The OG star reprises his role September 9 through November 23 at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre, and the Ham fans will likely go wild.
“Returning to Hamilton is a deeply meaningful homecoming,” said Odom. “I’m so grateful for the chance to step back into the room—especially during this anniversary moment—and to revisit this brilliant piece that forever changed my life and the lives of so many.”
“When I saw Leslie perform ‘The Room Where It Happens’ at the first act two workshop of Hamilton, I knew I was witnessing a historic moment. How lucky we are that Leslie is returning to Hamilton and bringing his indelible Burr back to Broadway,” said Hamilton’s lead producer Jeffrey Seller, whose memoir Theater Kid, releases May 6 and offers inside scoop on the production’s evolution.
Odom’s been busy, appearing last season in Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch by Ossie Davis, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award, and recently re-released his 2018 memoir Failing Up in paperback.
Hamilton plays at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
