Tag: lin-manuel miranda
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Here’s Lin freestyling to a frog. It’s camripped but the most adorable thing ever.
What is this from?!
Oh my god
Teach ‘em how to say goodbye.
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Date someone who looks at you like Lin-Manuel Miranda looks at his castmates when they perform.
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In the musical of my life after I’m long gone, my wife Vanessa is going to be the one who steps forward as the hero. Vanessa is not particularly fond of musicals—she only likes good ones. She is not effusive in her praise, or boastful. But when I looked up from that Chernow book and said “I think this is a hip-hop musical,” she didn’t laugh, or roll her eyes. She just said, “That sounds cool.” And that was all I needed to get started. As I fell in love with the idea of a love triangle between Eliza, Alexander, and Angelica, she said, “Can you have Angelica rap? That would be cool.”
I am someone who is so averse to travel that I wrote a whole musical about not wanting to leave my block in Washington Heights.
It was Vanessa who booked us trips and time away from New York. “You don’t get any writing done here because life keeps popping up.” Thanks to her, Hamilton was written in Mexico, Spain, Nevis, Sagaponack, St. Croix, Puerto Rico, The Dominican Republic—long trips where Vanessa would take me there and then leave me alone to write while she explored. She is my first audience, and she’s a tough audience, so I know if I impress her I’ve cleared the highest possible bar. She’ll come home from work and say, “Your king tune was stuck in my head all day—that’s probably a good sign.” This started out as a note trying to explain how my wife really is the ‘best of wives and best of women,’ but I’m trying to get at something more important—this show simply doesn’t exist without Vanessa. It’s a love letter to her.Lin-Manuel Miranda on the role of his wife, Vanessa Nadal, in the creation of Hamilton. From the annotated libretto in Hamilton: The Revolution (via darrenburr) -
a very important collection of the faces lin-manuel miranda makes when watching people perform you’re welcome
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(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Lin Manuel Miranda in an Actual 60-Minutes Interview: (puts camelot cast recording on record player) let’s find ‘guenevere’ it has the DOPEST beat you will ever hear in your life
I can’t apologize because it’s TRUE
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You know, it’s funny how Hamilton, a show in its infancy, has built up a massive fanbase because literally none of us have seen it. Brilliant music aside, I love how the creator is just so nice to us. We have a free cast album, almost completely sung through because Lin freaking gets how inaccessible Broadway is to most of us. We have many, many interviews that have a nice bit of footage from the show, which is great to tide us over until a legit filmed production comes out. He releases bonus songs and lyrics, even showing us the script for the death of Laurens scene that’s not on the album. Honestly, I’ve never felt so connected with a show before because a lot of creators are so snooty about professional theatre only being for the wealthy and powerful, never mind the rest of us. I, and most of my musical theatre lover friends, will probably never see a real live Broadway show in my lifetime because of ticket prices and travel expenses. I’ve watched bootlegs in order to be a theatre fan, but you know what? I wouldn’t want to be someone spreading around a shittily filmed version of a show we’ve practically had handed to us and will probably be professionally filmed sometime. So anyway (this has gone on too long), thanks for letting the less well-off theatre fans get to actually feel like they’re a part of a new show, because no one ever thinks of us.
