'Hamilton' Star Leslie Odom Jr. Talks Reprising Aaron Burr, Teases Nashville Symphony Concert
Since its Broadway debut in 2015 and streaming premiere in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, Hamilton has become a musical theatre favorite among audiences. Permeating in our popular culture through movies and TV, the Lin-Manuel Miranda play has spawned a phenomenon with a new wave of interest in theatre. With the cast leaving behind roles that have since solidified their careers, Leslie Odom Jr. — best known for playing Aaron Burr — admits to PopCulture.com that he is not only grateful for his character but would be up for reprising him given the chance.
"There's a great deal of that story that I still have yet to tell with the whole — the show kind of ends — Hamilton kind of ends really where Burr's intermission is," he told PopCulture. "I think the intermission for Burr is we go out right after that dual and Act Two would start on that rowboat, going back across the Hudson. So there was quite a bit of that story that I've yet to tell and if there was an interesting enough venue to tell that part of the story I'd be open to it, that's for sure. I invested so much in the first act."
