The TRANS declare war on Hamilton!

I find it hard to believe this was written by a lawyer. It opens with a version of Hamilton's lyrics adapted to suit "Mx Reid"'s situation. The background section is written like it's for reality television, complete with a paragraph opening with "Mx. Reid was not going to throw away their shot". However, there's some interesting stuff about how toxic it seems the Hamilton companies are, which seems to back up what a poster here said about them a few months ago).

He was originally cast as Man Six, which is amusing as the other Hamilton attention seeker was also cast in that role. And I'm guessing by the time they cast Reid, the stage manager was getting a sense that the Men Six were drama queens:

[quote]In or around October 2017, at Mx. Reid’s first Hamilton onboarding call with Stage Manager Amber White, it quickly became clear that Hamilton might not offer the welcoming atmosphere one would expect. Instead of a warm welcome, Ms. White made it clear to Mx. Reid that “your role is cuttable, we can do the show without you.”

He accuses a bunch of cast members of making negative comments (he names only three of them (Neil Haskell, Roddy Kennedy, Andrew Chappelle) but says more made comments). He was told to act more male on stage, was called Miss Six backstage, and people would make fun of how he minced and when he wore dresses.

He complained when he was told not to wear nail varnish during the show, saying it was discrimination.

Apparently a lot of the Chicago cast would make comments about how the Schuyler sisters tits looked "too distracting" in their costumes.

Another cast member, Zelig Williams, told him to try to pray the gay away like he did. The next day Williams was "still agitated" and got into an altercation and pushed someone on stage. yet another cast member - Carvens Lissaint - defended Williams and said he too was praying with him.

The Chicago Aaron Burr - Akron Watson - threatened to attack him, because Reid put his hand on him - as directed. Other cast members told him Watson was always like that.

On the dressing room issue - Reid requests it when he's due to move to the LA production. It actually seems like they agree, though this turns out to be a curtained off part of the existing dressing rooms. At the same time, company management gets pissy about social media posts from Reid bitching about the show, accusing management of racism, etc. Reid paints this as revenge for requesting the gender neutral dressing room - which he insists wouldn't just be for him.

He then contacts the manager of the Pantages to try and work out what rooms are free and could be used for the dressing room - which pisses off management further. Broadway for Racial Justice gets involved and tries to take this directly to LMM, which obviously further pisses off LA management. The story ends with the gender-neutral dressing room in place, and them telling him he's done with Hamilton.

To back up his case, he refers to Daniel Belnavis - the one who posted his over-long whinings about how Hamilton didn't recognise his artistic genius, and a story about a cast member - Nyla Sostre - who complained that the wigs weren't styled by black people, and so took to styling her own wigs, and was fired. Not, perhaps, the best people to back up your claims.

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