Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Mirandais an American actor, composer, rapper and writer, best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals Hamilton and In the Heights. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, two Grammys, an Emmy, a MacArthur "Genius" Award, and three Tony awards, among others...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth16 January 1980
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the only one sane in the world' character.
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I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women - don't forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play.
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Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.
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'West Wing' was huge. Like 'Hamilton,' it pulls back the curtain on how decision-making happens at the highest level, or at least how you hope it would be. The amount of information Aaron Sorkin packs into a scene gave me this courage to trust the audience to keep up.
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One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.
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We love 'Fiddler.' We love 'West Side Story.' I want to be in that club. I want to be in the club that writes the musical that every high school does.
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When I was asked to do a song from 'In the Heights' at the White House in 2009, I chose instead to do 'Alexander Hamilton' because I felt like I was meeting a moment.
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The only shows I saw as a kid were that holy trinity: 'Les Miz,' 'Cats,' 'Phantom.'
If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.
Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.
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Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about.
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You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses!
I kind of need to be ambulatory to write lyrics.
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I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Evita' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' were albums before they were musicals.