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Hamilton finally opens in Houston — here's what to know about Broadway's most revolutionary show (Culture Map):

[. . .] CultureMap caught up with Houstonian and Hamilton insider, cast member Dorcas Leung. Excited to help bring the Tony Award-winning show to her hometown, Leung, a Broadway and television veteran, was happy to give us the scoop of what we should know before seeing the show.

As a standby performer, Leung must always be ready to go on for any of the major female roles, Angelica Schuyler, Eliza Hamilton, and Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds, when the principle cast member needs to bows out. Sometimes Leung knows a month in advance she’ll jump into character on a given night; sometimes she has to make an entrance with as little as half an hour notice. Yet Leung says she’s living her dream and enjoys the acting challenge of having to know so many parts.

Leung gives some of the credit to her love of musical theater to growing up in Houston, going on theater field trips as a child and then participating in high school performing arts programs. In fact, this won’t be Leung’s first time on a Hobby Center stage. She was last lit by Hobby lights several years ago competing in the Theatre Under the Stars Tommy Tune Awards with her Stratford High School classmates in Damn Yankees, and yes they won best musical.

“I’m so excited to go back and do a professional show in that setting,” says Leung of this Houston to Broadway and back journey. “I remember being in high school and being in awe when I looked around backstage and saw all the wall texts of different shows that had been there. It’s bizarre for me that I’m going to be in the show that’s there.”

Our expert advisor offers up the Hamilton dish, even spilling some revolutionary

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All about the history

The musical tells the life story of founding father Alexander Hamilton and depicts the American Revolution with a driving beat. Yet, it also dives into the politics of the creation of the First Bank of the United States and why our national capitol sits on the Potomac instead of the Hudson, making remote historical fact into relevant and even relatable theater.

Leung reveals that as part of the rehearsal process all the actors receive history packets and are expected to do their own research and maybe some self-assigned homework. She calls Ron Chernow’s book that inspired the musical “riveting.”

“The show humanizes what we think of as these towering old white men,” describes Leung. “It humanizes them, showing them as they were: young, revolutionaries causing a ruckus in this new country. It also shows their scandals, how they fell in love and become fathers. It puts modern people in touch with our history.”

The Revolution is growing

As a standby, Leung is part of a second cast ready to go on at a moment’s notice, but she’s also a part of a huge and now international Hamilton family.

“Everyone in Hamilton is HamFam,” she says.

Besides the New York show, which is still difficult to get a ticket for, Chicago has its own long-term production and now so does London. Most important for the rest of us, two Hamilton casts tour the nation, named the Philip cast and the Angelica cast. Having two tours allows the production to spend more time in any one city, giving more people the opportunity see the show.“Being able to sit down in these cities that may not have the opportunity to see Hamilton is not only a present to the city but also a present to us because every show we do is so unique and special, and we’re excited to share that with the rest of the city,” explains Leung.

While the main cast and its large standby cast is enormous, even the set, with a revolving stage within a larger revolving stage and four sets of stairs, has its own backup. There are actually four sets roaming the country right now, two for each touring production. Because it takes so long to assemble, the two stages leap frog each other, only stopping at every other city. [. . .]

read more from Leung (whose name you might recognize from the Dallas Theater Center production of Les Mis, in which she played Cosette) here

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[. . .] All this acknowledged, so much has been written about Hamilton as zeitgeistian juggernaut that it’s almost impossible to review it as a piece of musical theater, even one now on tour. So for the last of the affirmatives I’ll simply state: if you can afford to go see it at the Hobby Center (now through May 20), go. If you can’t, at least try for the Hamilton $10 ticket lottery. You might get lucky. Beyond that, for those like myself who know all about the story and have listened to the cast album many times, but who have not seen the show before, perhaps the most surprising aspect of Hamilton is how much Hamilton still surprises. So instead the usually brief, but spoiler free, plot summary and performance evaluation review, let me count just a few of the ways Hamilton astounds. *A truly stellar cast, including a Houston star* I’ve never had much cause to think on the casting and general management of a production, but kudos to the company who puts together the various companies. With three long-term productions in New York, Chicago, and London as well as two national touring productions, one would think the odd just-average actor could slip into some role, but not so, if the cast who invaded Houston was any indication. The first performance of the Hobby Center run even had standby cast members in two starring roles, Edred Utomi as Alexander himself and Houston’s own Dorcas Leung (who gave CultureMap a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the show) as Eliza Hamilton. Both gave superb performances. *A flawed hero, a frenemy villain, and a scene-stealing king* While, of course, Hamilton the genius and flawed man always remains the focus of the show, it is Aaron Burr (Nicholas Christopher) as Hamilton’s comrade, colleague, frenemy, rival, and (200-year-old-spoiler alert) killer who gives the musical its complex soul. Burr’s drive to be the hero of his own story only to become the villain in America’s adds an even deeper tragedy to this epic. Meanwhile, it’s not the great general/president George Washington (Carvens Lessaint [sic] with grace-filled gravitas) who royally steals the stage, but the other George (Peter Matthew Smith), the English king, who plants a British flag in the show every time he deigns to grace us with his majesty. *The backup dancers and set tell their own story* Many a think-piece has been thought out about the revolutionary music, story, and diversity casting of the show, but choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler and lighting designer Howell Binkley certainly earned their respected Tonys as well and deserve at least a few think-paragraphs. With Blankenbuehler’s choreography, the players revolve around the stage in an almost constant state of dance, sometimes verging on airy mime, as they fight wars, fall in love and build a country. Yet, those occasional pure moments of stillness when an actor is either alone onstage or surrounded by the swirl of bodies, brings just as much drama and character reveal to the dancing performances. With very few pieces of furniture ever on stage–the first entrance of Washington’s desk was rather startling–the dynamic lighting and sometimes abrupt absence of light, plays an essential part in defining space, place and plot points. *A master class in American and theater history * When not creating new, ground-breaking shows, I imagine Miranda could teach graduate-level courses on the classics. Along with its hip-hop influences, musical theater lovers might see homages and a salute here and there to contemporary and older greats, a bit of Les Miz, Rent, and West Side Story. When it came to the Hamilton/Burr relationship and jealousy, my own, maybe bizarre, comparison I kept making was with Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus. Perhaps with Hamilton, Miranda has also designed a grand musical Rorschach test. [. . .]

Hamilton proves why it's Broadway's most revolutionary show with red-hot Houston premiere (Culture Map Houston)

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Increase Your Team's Performance with The Culture Map

Increase Your Team’s Performance with The Culture Map

I’ve been living in Malaysia for over five years, working for a company that employs more than 60 nationalities. My first Scrum team had 8 nationalities (of 8 team members), spread across all spectrum of cultural differences. My family is also multicultural (my son has Romanian-Malaysian genes, plus influences from Romanian, Chinese, Malaysian and Indian cultures).

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A benchmark project that will encourage funders to adopt intentional investment strategies to support the long-term stability of this sector.

“...This report shows that arts and culture groups embedded in Oakland’s communities of color are advancing understanding and spurring collective action on urgent issues—from racial justice, economic development and displacement to oppressive policing and gun violence. But as in other communities across the country, Oakland’s small, grassroots organizations are at risk due to a lack of reliable, long-term funding—even as they grapple with rising operating costs...”

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Tools to Manage People across Continents

I recently came across a powerful model by Professor Ronnie Lessem, called the Four Worlds Model. I find the model extremely useful in understanding how to manage and work with people across different continents. Lessem argues that we should focus on the strengths of the different cultures we are exposed to. If we are born into one culture we might tend think that our way of seeing the world is the best way, wondering why others can’t be a bit more like ourselves. The temptation might be to try and force others to think and behave in ways we consider to be acceptable.

In the Four Worlds Model, the UK and USA are considered to be pragmatic with high verbal intelligence. Europeans are seen as rational with logical intelligence, while Asians are perceived as being highly skilled in intrapersonal skills and Africans as being humanistic with a highly social intelligence. Although the model could be criticized for being a gross generalization, I do believe it to be a useful framework that can help us understand how to tap into the different strengths of other cultures. Another gap in the model could be the exclusion of Middle Eastern, Russian, South American, Scandinavian and Australasian cultures. The model could perhaps be extended to include intelligences from these corners of the world. Yet, using this model as a framework, can help us as managers become more patient in our understanding of different cultures and manage with more of a global mind set.

Another powerful tool to facilitate the understanding of different cultures is found in the book, The Culture Map – Breaking through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer. Meyer provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business. She suggests that culture can me mapped across the following dimensions: communication, evaluation, persuasion, leading, deciding, trusting, confrontation and time management. Being on different spectrums on the continuum of these dimensions could well be the reason why we are experiencing conflict and frustrations across cultures. Her book is highly recommended.

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“All teams and organizations have all seven Culture Map colors, but in different proportions.A very quick overview for navigating the Culture Map colors:

Purple: Tribal us-against them mentality, rituals, tradition, unflinching belief in leader.

Red: Comfortable with chaos, act first, think later, shoot from the hip, get-it-done attitude.

Blue: Brings order and structure with reliable rules, processes and hierarchy.

Orange: Flexible, priorities based on business value, innovative and customer-driven.

Green: Humanity, camaraderie, consensus-driven, with emphasis on harmony above all.

Yellow: Curious, scientific, logical, rational, fact-based, data-driven and analytical.

Aqua: Big picture, systems thinking, with emphasis on the health of the organization first.

As with any culture, dominant aspects have their healthy and unhealthy sides, and it requires deep analysis and careful planning to make transitions from a current culture to a target state. “ via

The Amazon map: obsessed with the customer, speed to market and data.

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