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Originally Posted by Frazod
You realize that the guys they're portraying were both (a) real, and (b) white, right? The phantom of the opera is a fictional character. I mean, if you're going to have a problem with one, you should probably have a problem with the other.
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Yeah, but the point of Hamilton is to blackify everything. I mean, it's a hip hop musical. You can't have a bunch of white boys doing that.
Look, I'm a consumer. I expect some faithfulness to the original when I'm watching a production of the same play. As soon as I heard a black man's voice that sounded nothing like Michael Crawford, or even like someone that could have been the Phantom IRL, I was completely taken out of my immersion. It mostly ruined the evening for me.