I've read an interview Philip Griffiths gave over a year ago about being fired from poto after 29 years and it's heartbreaking. But I'm not even surprised given how mackintosh treats most of the actors that worked for him. He stabbed John Owen Jones, of all people, in the back multiple times...
Oh yeah, like, I love everyone in the post-pandemic cast (and the whole situation is not their fault at all, I'm glad we got Lucy, James, Rhys, Holly, Anouk, Saori, Ellie, and so on but I really wish it was under better circumstances) but the fact that CamMack fired the pre-pandemic cast and crew over Zoom (many of which like Philip Griffiths were with the show for decades) made me lose whatever little respect I still had left for him, and the Broadway production closing is the final nail in the coffin. But then again, he fired Hal Prince from POTO back in the 80s, so I can't say I'm surprised. (And lemme tell ya, Hal was a fucking saint to have come back after Trevor Nunn got fired)
I don't know about poor treatment of JOJ, though, can anyone elaborate?
















