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the begining and the end

Happy trails @linmanuel

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and Tamir Rice and Michael Brown and how many times

(it’s been a real long day…)

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(...told y'all we were all going to get to see it eventually!)

Hamilton Film, With Original Broadway Cast, Will Premiere in October 2021

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i was just trying to find something in my "outstanding heterosexual lin-manuel miranda" tag and

you can fuck allllllllllll the way off tumblr

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Lin explains why he’s not at the Golden Globes and announces another Hamilton PR Prizeo contest!

Hi. Lin Miranda here.

I’m finally in Puerto Rico and getting ready for the show to open on January 11th. Your outpouring of support has been amazing, and I couldn’t help but think — How can we get more of you to come here while continuing to support the Flamboyan Arts Fund and the Hispanic Federation?

So, here’s the deal:  

•  I am doing a 10-day Prizeo campaign. Think of it as #Ham4PR’s big send-off. •  During the campaign, we will select 50 winners to come to the closing night of Hamilton in Puerto Rico. It’s going to be emotional! •  Yep, you’re reading that correctly: 50 WINNERS! Each winner will win round-trip flights for themselves and a +1, hotel accommodation for 2 nights, 2 tickets to closing night, and 2 passes to our closing night party on January 27th in San Juan.

So, there it is. The biggest Prizeo ever, with the most winners… ever.

¿Nos vemos en Puerto Rico? Will I see you in Puerto Rico?

Siempre,

Lin-Manuel

Enter here!

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Lin arrives in Puerto Rico for Hamilton PR

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“Hamilton” is set to premiere in Puerto Rico next week with Lin-Manuel Miranda returning to reprise his role as Alexander Hamilton. He’s hoping the production will bring millions of dollars to help his home rebuild the devastation left by Hurricane Maria. Soledad O’Brien speaks with Miranda and his father about their goals for both the musical and the island.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda on Why a ‘Puerto Rican Dude’ in ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Is Such a Breakthrough

Miranda plays a lamplighter named Jack who was an apprentice to the chimney sweep, Bert, played by Van Dyke. Like his predecessor, Miranda affects a Cockney accent — but his race and background are never mentioned and never an issue.

“It feels significant, the same way it felt significant to me when I saw Raúl Juliá play Gomez Addams in ‘The Addams Family,‘” Miranda said of his casting. “That character was not a Latin guy in the original series on Nick at Night when I was watching that show. Or seeing Rita Moreno on ‘The Electric Company’ when I was a kid.

“We’re not only playing the quote-unquote Latino roles, but also playing great roles where race is just a part of it. It’s a step forward, I think, for representation,” he said.

Miranda said his casting in a big Disney movie also felt like the culmination of something that began when he was a student at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, performing in a hip-hop comedy troupe and writing the initial draft of a musical that would become the Broadway hit “In the Heights.”

“I started writing ‘In the Heights’ because I really wanted to be in musicals and I didn’t see a role for myself in what existed out there,” he said. “You know, I don’t have the ballet experience to play Bernardo or Paul in ‘A Chorus Line’ — and if you were a Puerto Rican dude, that’s it. That’s what was in the canon.

“And so really I started writing ‘In the Heights’ when I was 19 years old because I didn’t see another way in for myself. I wrote ‘In the Heights’ and ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Hamilton’ to create opportunities for myself as an actor. The fact that these incredible talents then came to me with ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ and wrote these songs that fit me like a tailored suit — it felt like the fruit of all the hard work I started when I was 19 years old.”

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hey who was it who wanted the lac vine of lin skateboarding at o'neill? that i talked with? i got it. msg me again

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i have. so much to back up. god, wish me luck.

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“There was a time before Lin-Manuel Miranda and there is a time after.”

Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony - November 30th, 2018

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The Supercalifragilistic Lin-Manuel Miranda [Lin covers Vanity Fair]

The first image you see in Mary Poppins Returns is a gas flame dancing in an old-fashioned street lamp, just before dawn. It’s an apt way to start the movie, which, more than half a century later, means to rekindle the spirit of Walt Disney’s 1964 adaptation of the P. L. Travers children’s books. Some would argue (well, I would) that the original Mary Poppins is the greatest of Walt Disney pictures—Disney, the actual man and studio head—so that crafting a sequel is a Herculean and possibly foolish task. Blame or salute director Rob Marshall (Chicago, Into the Woods), screenwriter David Magee (Life of Pi), and songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray). But here we are.

The second thing you see in Mary Poppins Returns is a close-up of Lin-Manuel Miranda, tending the flame literally and figuratively as a Cockney lamplighter named Jack. Those of us happy just to have had tickets in the rear balcony when we saw Hamilton, the epochal hip-hop musical Miranda wrote and starred in on Broadway, or In the Heights, his first show and the rare Broadway hit with Latin music actually written by Latinos, may not have realized how expressive his big brown eyes are, especially on a movie screen. Here, with his face shorn of its customary beard and mustache, those eyes, no longer counterbalanced by whiskers, look almost ridiculously, Keane-ian large. They’ve been unleashed, like a pair of excited puppies—adorable and up for anything. In tandem with the gaslight, they seem meant to welcome us into the magical, innocent, sentimental world of Mary Poppins Returns, and they give us the first hint that this thing might work.

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Rob Marshall and John DeLuca, Marshall’s producing partner as well as his partner partner, cast Miranda after seeing him in Hamilton,consciously following the template set by Walt Disney, who gave Andrews her first big-screen role in Mary Poppins after she had become a Broadway star in My Fair Lady and Camelot. “We were blown away by the spirit behind Lin’s work as an actor—there’s an unusual purity to it,” Marshall told me. “What’s so fascinating about getting to know Lin personally is that there’s not a jaded bone in his body, and we were looking for Jack to have an optimism, a child-like sensibility. Lin just has that ‘it’ thing, and it comes right through the lens.”

Not a jaded bone in his body. Sam Wasson, a friend of Miranda’s from their undergraduate days at Wesleyan, said much the same thing when he described Miranda as “a human gumdrop.” At Wesleyan, Wasson and Miranda worked on shows together, including an improv group that Miranda played music for. “He was game for anything,” Wasson said. “He had a little Mickey-and-Judy feeling in him. ‘Let’s go! Let’s do it!’ It’d be impossible to think of Lin as depressed in any way, which makes me hate him. You want to think, ‘Oh, genius comes with darkness,’ and I’m sure it’s there, but I haven’t seen it.”

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Mary doesn’t age, right? Which makes her kind of like a Time Lord.” That was Miranda one afternoon this summer, explaining the ground rules of what I hope no one at Disney refers to as the Poppinsverse. “Time Lord” (I had to look it up) is a reference to Doctor Who and that series’s race of time-bending aliens who can also regenerate themselves whenever plot twists or casting changes demand. You can imagine the novel appeal of characters who have literally all the time in the world to someone whose signature work is about a man haunted by the specter of an early death; as Miranda’s Eliza Hamilton sings to her husband, “Why do you write like you’re running out of time?” It’s a refrain that underscores Miranda’s own life and work, well beyond Hamilton.

Read the rest here!

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We’re in the play!

Lin_Manuel: I updated Groffsauce via text. #WereInThePlay

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Lin and Emily Blunt in Vogue Magazine 

[Image credit: LinMiranda.com]

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GO GO GO

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if you missed them being in the play the first time around… [x x x]