Tonight is the massive Dawson’s Creek reunion, but someone won’t be there. Dawson himself was forced to cancel at the last minute because of an illness.
James Van Der Beek wrote: This is the evening I’d been looking forward to MOST since my angel Michelle Williams said she was putting it together, way back in January…
So you can imagine how gutted I was when two stomach viruses conspired to knock me out of commission and keep me grounded at the worst possible moment.
Despite every effort… I won’t get to be there. I won’t get to stand on that stage and thank every soul in the theater for showing up for me, and against cancer, when I needed it most.
But I DO have an understudy. A ridiculously overqualified replacement who would have been #1 on my wishlist (had I ever dreamed he’d be available). Someone my kids would definitely consider an upgrade over me… Plus, he already knows how to get to the theater. So that’s convenient.
The role of “Dawson”, usually played by James Van Der Beek…
Will be played by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Can’t believe I just got to type that.
Everyone please enjoy all the love in that room. Shine some on my family. I will be beaming and receiving from afar in a bed in Austin.
And thank you @lin_manuel . You were a hero to my kids before… now you’re a demigod
Hopefully, he will be better soon and reunited with his friends from Capeside. Massachusetts, soon.
No matter what Lin-Manuel Miranda does, he will always be remembered as Alexander Hamilton. However, he no longer looks like the man who won him several Tony Awards.
But we can always see him like that if we go to Madame Tussauds in New York City, because they created a wax statue of his character from the Broadway Musical. It even has the ponytail he grew for the part.
So if you are in Manhattan, you don’t want to miss your shot of seeing Miranda’s double.
The original cast of Hamilton, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonathan Groff, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Daveed Diggs, and Leslie Odom, Jr., reunited yesterday at The Tony Awards to celebrate the musical’s tenth anniversary.
They didn’t just stand there and pose for the cameras. Instead, they performed a medley of the show’s songs. So, it felt like you were getting all of Hamilton in four minutes and eighteen seconds.
What a performance! There were definitely some broken legs in the audience after watching that.
The only negative is that it proved that even though this was Broadway’s most lucrative year ($800 for George Clooney to bore you to tears), it wasn’t a very good one. Not like the year that Hamilton changed the game!
Ten years ago, Hamilton lit a fire on Broadway! And it has never been the same. In 2006, the Broadway musical dominated the Tonys with a record-breaking 16 nominations and 11 wins.
In honor of the show’s 10th anniversary, the original cast is reuniting for a special, and I am sure memorable, performance at the Tonys.
The reuniting cast is: Carleigh Bettiol, Andrew Chappelle, Ariana DeBose, Alysha Deslorieux, Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Sydney James Harcourt, Neil Haskell, Sasha Hutchings, Christopher Jackson, Thayne Jasperson, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Stephanie Klemons, Morgan Marcell, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Javier Muñoz, Leslie Odom, Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Jon Rua, Austin Smith, Phillipa Soo, Seth Stewart, Betsy Struxness, Ephraim Sykes, and Voltaire Wade-Greene.
Yesterday was Saturday Night Live’s first episode during his second term as president. So, of course, they started off the episode by tackling his frightening first week in office again.
They did that by taking it back to 1776, when the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. And if you do that, you need Alexander Hamilton. So, Lorne Michaels asked Lin-Manuel Miranda to reprise his most famous role 24 hours before the show went live. And the musical genius said yes.
And we are happy Lin-Manuel Miranda Cosgrove did because his appearance made a spot-on sketch even funnier! Especially when he broke. But he did try his best not to laugh. It was just too hard not to.
