Tag: Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Lin-Manuel Miranda To Return To HAMILTON For Puerto Rico Engagement In 2019

Pulitzer Prize/Tony Award-winning Lin-Manuel Miranda is taking his Broadway mega-hit musical, Hamilton: An American Musical, to Puerto Rico for a three week run in January 2019.

And Miranda says he plans to reprise his performance as the title role for the limited engagement.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Hamilton will play a three-week run, Jan. 8-27, 2019, at Teatro UPR, the theater at the University of Puerto Rico’s main campus in the Rio Piedras section of San Juan. Built in 1939, Teatro UPR is considered Puerto Rico’s most iconic stage, and recently hosted Spanish language productions of Evita, Into the Woods, Master Class, The Sound of Music and Once on This Island.

Miranda’s first musical, In the Heights, also played in Puerto Rico in 2010, with the actor-composer also reprising his role. Though a Puerto Rico run has been in the works, its announcement comes with an urgency following the devastation of Hurricane Maria. Since then, Miranda has been working solely and tirelessly on relief efforts, including releasing the all-star charity single “Almost Like Praying.”

“Bringing Hamilton: An American Musical to Puerto Rico is a dream that I’ve had since we first opened at The Public Theater in 2015,” stated Miranda. “When I last visited the island, a few weeks before Hurricane Maria, I had made a commitment to not only bring the show to Puerto Rico, but also return again to the title role. In the aftermath of Maria we decided to expedite the announcement of the project to send a bold message that Puerto Rico will recover and be back in business, stronger than ever.”

The Broadway company of Hamilton has grossed $275 million at the Richard Rodgers Theatre thus far.

The show also has companies in Chicago and Los Angeles (through December 2017), a second national tour to launch in February in Seattle, and a London company will debut next month.

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New Music For Puerto Rico: Lin-Manuel Miranda “Almost Like Praying”


 Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has written an all-star charity recording, “Almost Like Praying,” to benefit those suffering in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

(Get it? “Maria,” from West Side Story, Hurricane Maria… Clever one, that Miranda).

Via press release:

Atlantic Records has announced this week’s release of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Almost Like Praying” (Feat. Marc Anthony, Ruben Blades, Camila Cabello, Pedro Capo, Dessa, Gloria Estefan, Fat Joe, Luis Fonsi, Juan Luis Guerra, Alex Lacamoire, John Leguizamo, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno, Ednita Nazario, Joell Ortiz, Anthony Ramos, Gina Rodriguez, Gilberto Santa Rosa, PJ Sin Suela, Tommy Torres, and Ana Villafañe).”

The extraordinary all-star single will be available at all digital music retailers and streaming services beginning today, October 6th.

With music and lyrics by the Pulitzer Prize, Tony, GRAMMY, Emmy Award-winning creator of HAMILTON Lin-Manuel Miranda, and produced by Jeffrey “Trooko” Penalva, “Almost Like Praying” was written and recorded last weekend at studios in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, The Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Miranda traveled to each location to work closely with the contributing performers. Penned by Miranda only last week, the original song borrows its title and instantly indelible hook from Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s classic, “Maria,” from the original Broadway musical, WEST SIDE STORY.

The exuberance throughout the song and video is palpable. True American spirit on display.

Watch below and then head over to iTunes to contribute by purchasing the track.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda & The West Wing Weekly Podcast Ask “What’s Next?”
The West Wing Weekly podcast presents an ode to the hit TV show, The West Wing, with some help from Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize winner and birthday boy, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

The weekly podcast examines individual episodes of the Emmy Award winning series by Aaron Sorkin, with guests from the show and real life politics to help put the issues at hand into perspective.

Clip description:

Hrishi made a beat, an extended remix of our podcast’s intro theme, for the biggest West Wing fan we know: Lin-Manuel Miranda. Then Lin wrote lyrics and recorded his vocals for this song.

Download the track at http://thewestwingweekly.com/episodes/whatsnext

As we observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and consider the next four years ahead of us, what could be more apropos than to ask, “What’s next?”

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Lin-Manuel Miranda Kills Cold Open on SNL With “My Shot” Parody

Pultizer Prize, Tony Award and Grammy Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton) does “not throw away” his shot at a cold open on last night’s Saturday Night Live.

Humble as ever, Miranda acknowledges that Broadway stardom doesn’t always translate to the rest of the world. “I’m fresh off a long run performing in my musical ‘Hamilton,’” Miranda said, “Which fortunately is one of the biggest hits ever on Broadway so that means most of you at home have no idea who I am.”

He then serves up a parody of one of the big songs from Hamilton, “My Shot,” with (practically) no mention of politics. Miranda’s effusive enthusiasm is a joy.

“My name is Lin-Manuel, I am hosting SNL and I am not throwing away my shot.”

Here’s a great diversion from the ongoing Trump scandals.

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JLo & Lin-Manuel Miranda Debut “Love Make The World Go Round” Tribute To Orlando Shooting Victims

Via Rolling Stone:

Jennifer Lopez and Hamilton star Lin-Manuel Miranda delivered the late-night debut of “Love Make the World Go Round,” their tribute to the victims of the Orlando massacre, on Tuesday’s Tonight Show.

Backed by the Roots and a pair of backing vocalists, Lopez crooned the track’s message of hope and resiliency while wearing a massive, multi-colored cape. Miranda emerged midway through the track for a nimbly-rapped verse.

“What we got is love even when the sinners hate us/ We cannot let them diminish or intimidate us/ We sing out, we got the rhythm and the true on our side/ We cut through the divide and we do it with pride,” Miranda rapped. “A generation of innovators enabled to patiently wait for change ’cause change is what they’ve been afraid of/ the malevolence can wait, raise a level of debate, celebrate, elevate.”

Lopez and Miranda released the track July 7th via iTunes.

All proceeds benefit the Hispanic Federation’s Proyecto Somos Orlando initiative, which aims to address the “long-term needs for mental health services that are culturally competent and bilingual.”

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Lin-Manuel Miranda Tony Award Speech: “Love Is Love Is Love Is Love Is Love”

In his Tony Award acceptance speech tonight for “Best Score of a Musical,” Lin-Manuel Miranda read a sonnet he wrote acknowledging life, love, and today’s tragedy.

“Senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised, not one day,” he said. “This show is proof that history remembers. We live through times when hate and fear seem stronger. We rise and fall and light from dying embers, remembrances that hope and love last longer.”

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HAMILTON’s Lin-Manuel Miranda Does Not Suffer Fools (Or Thieves) Lightly

Lin-Manuel Miranda, author/star of Hamilton

Pulitzer Prize-winner (and about to win a ton of hardware at this year’s Tony Awards) Lin-Manuel Miranda took to Twitter recently to let the world know HE CAN SEE you folks in the audience who pull out your phones to record his Broadway blockbuster Hamilton.

Check this from yesterday: