Since he performed Aaron “I’m the rattling idiot who shot him” Burr within the hit musical Hamilton, successful a Tony and Grammy for the position, Leslie Odom Jr. has change into one of the crucial recognizable stage and display screen actors. However does that translate to touring in live performance? Audiences appear to suppose in order Odom makes his annual vacation trek throughout the nation.
Final yr’s cease in Dallas offered out, as has his upcoming return to Winspear Opera Home on Dec. 20. The present options Christmas classics, originals from his vacation albums and Lin-Manuel Miranda songs he carried out as Burr.
Odom bought his begin in 1998 within the Broadway manufacturing of Hire and has gone on to provide and star in a variety of TV and movie tasks, together with portraying Sam Cooke in Regina King’s One Evening in Miami, showing in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller and taking a recurring position in Abbott Elementary.
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