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Podcast: In the Envelope: The Actor’s Podcast
Episode: Leslie Odom Jr.
Description: On this episode of In the Envelope: The Actor’s Podcast, Odom Jr. takes us behind the scenes of his Broadway homecoming in “Purlie Victorious,” the Tony winner’s first time on stage since “Hamilton.”
“Theater as a whole really is fighting for its place on the American stage, for its usefulness and its value to us. But it feels as necessary and as valuable as ever before to me,” Odom Jr. says. “So this company [in “Purlie Victorious”] is going to fight the good fight. We literally couldn't have a better text, we couldn't have better themes. We will have our work cut out...