“We exceeded my wildest dreams a long time ago,” Tony Award winner Leslie Odom, Jr. told Carson Daly and Savannah Guthrie on The Today Show November 5. Ahead of his full album release November 8, the Hamilton alum took the stage of the morning show to perform “Go Crazy.”
But before taking the mic, Odom confessed he had never aimed for a career on screen, in the recording studio, or the author’s chair. Instead? “I wanted to be in Rent. That's all I wanted,” he confessed.
Odom did bow in Broadway’s Rent as a replacement towards the end of the show’s run. But he’s continued to turn heads on stage and now on screen. His turn alongside fellow Tony winner Cynthia Erivo in Harriet has caused buzz, and the film was a hit at the box office in its opening weekend November 1–3.
Watch his performance in the video below.
The production is now in previews at Lincoln Center Theater.
The stage and screen star belts out the Alan Jay Lerner-Burton Lane tune.
Olivia Puckett, Mason Reeves, and more star in the Matthew Gardiner-directed production of the '60s rock musical at the D.C.-area theatre.
The new play by David Adjmi, with music by Arcade Fire's Will Butler, played its first performance at the Golden April 2.
Join the star of the new musical as she prepares for her first Broadway opening night in 20 years.
The Pulitzer-winning playwright will revisit some old songs and try out new ones at the one-night-only concert.
Lileana Blain-Cruz directs the new production, opening April 23.
The Huey Lewis jukebox musical follows Bobby, a Chicagoan whose failed band leads him to return to corporate America.
He played a different role in the previous version of the show. Now he's stepping in as the lead.
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