Joel Grey Decides to Become a Ticket Broker in Response to Leslie Odom Jr.'s LATE SHOW Comments

HAMILTON star Leslie Odom Jr. (SMASH, LEAP OF FAITH), recently visited LATE NIGHT and discussed the A-list celebrities, including Beyonce, Jay-Z, and Joel Grey, who have stopped by to see his hit Broadway musical Hamilton.

On LATE NIGHT, Odom recounted a story about Joel Grey showing up to the HAMILTON box office at the Public Theatre without a reservation and getting a ticket on the spot just because he's Joel Grey. Later, HAMILTON writer and star Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted, "We aspire to Joel Grey status."

Grey loved the anecdote. The Tony Award-winner reportedly sent Odom a bouquet of flowers with a note reading, "Leslie, my phone hasn't stopped ringing for days. Everyone is begging me for tickets to your show. I've decided to give up acting and become a ticket broker. Yours, Joel."

Check out all the clips from Leslie Odom Jr.'s LATE NIGHT appearance, in which he also talks about Liza Minnelli, his favorite part of HAMILTON, and more here!

From the creative team behind the Tony Award-winning In The Heights comes a wildly inventive new musical about the scrappy young immigrant who forever changed America: Alexander Hamilton. Tony and Grammy Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda wields his pen and takes the stage as the unlikely founding father determined to make his mark on a new nation as hungry and ambitious as he is.

From bastard orphan to Washington's right hand man, rebel to war hero, loving husband caught in the country's first sex SCANDAL to Treasury head who made an untrusting world believe in the American economy, Hamilton is an exploration of a political mastermind. George Washington,Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton, and lifelongHamiltonfriend and foe,Aaron Burr, all attend this revolutionary tale of America's fiery past told through the sounds of the ever-changing nation we've become. Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail directs this new musical about taking your shot, speaking your mind, and turning the world upside down.

Source: Page Six