Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is an award-winning composer, lyricist, and performer, as well as a 2015 MacArthur Foundation Award recipient. His most recent musical, Hamilton - with book (which is a New York Times bestseller), music and lyrics by Miranda, in addition to him playing the title role - opened on vis mere Broadway in 2015 and was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Hamilton won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Hamilton won an OBIE for Best New American Play and is the 2015 recipient of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History. Material from the show was previewed at the White House during its first-ever Evening of Poetry & Spoken Word in 2009, in Lincoln Center Theater's 2012 American Songbook Series and at New York Stage and Film's 2013 Powerhouse Theatre Season at Vassar College. Miranda's first Broadway musical, In the Heights, received four 2008 Tony Awards (including Best Orchestrations, Best Choreography and Best Musical), with Miranda receiving a Tony Award for Best Score, as well as a nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. He is the author of Gmorning, Gnight!, published in October 2018. Miranda received a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 2002. In May of 2009, Miranda received the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from Yeshiva University, the youngest recipient of such an honor in the University's 123-year history. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 2002. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton: An American Musical: Original 2015 Broadway Cast Recording (2015) — Komponist — 120 eksemplarer
In the Heights: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical (Applause Libretto Library) (2013) 76 eksemplarer
Encanto: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Arranged for Piano/Vocal/Guitar with Color Photos!: Music from the… (2022) 6 eksemplarer
Encanto: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Arranged for Easy Piano with Lyrics (2022) 6 eksemplarer
tick, tick... BOOM! {2021 film} 3 eksemplarer
Encanto - Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Arranged for Beginning Piano Solo with Color Photos and Lyrics (2022) 2 eksemplarer
21 Chump Street 1 eksemplar
Moana : The Songs [Original Soundtrack] 1 eksemplar
¡Buen día, buenas noches! (Spanish Edition) 1 eksemplar
Selections from Encanto 1 eksemplar
Almost Like Praying [single] 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2012) — Fortæller, nogle udgaver — 5,977 eksemplarer
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (2021) — Fortæller, nogle udgaver — 1,038 eksemplarer
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Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter worked on documenting the creation of Hamilton from its initial beginning as a mixtape idea in 2008 through the Broadway debut in 2015. The story of behind the scenes is interspersed between the libretto: all text of the musical (including the one scene not in the cast recording because it is spoken dialogue) plus a couple deleted numbers, with footnotes on particular lines for inspiration/samples/etc. What strikes me is that while they acknowledge Hamilton is something special, they also recognize this is still in its early years (ha) for a musical- who knows how it will be recontextualized as high school/college performances, or in what the book doesn't predict, a Trump administration. The notes on Reynolds Pamphlet say there's some joy in seeing the line "Never gonna be president now," quoted during the then-election cycle of 2015-2016 but hooboy does that feel like a simpler time. Likewise, ending on Obama's chat with the cast and crew about the belief in stories and how they can change the world with the hope of America's future feels hollow after the horrors that came in the following years. This was also published before the Tony Awards and the wins the show took home, so that isn't covered either (though I can't think of where it'd fit in between songs).
The release of the filmed version in July 2020 on Disney adds another contextual layer- I wonder if someone of these close ups in the book are from the days they filmed close-ups for that original cast recording. The libretto does not describe everything in a scene (a footnote mentions King George III's dance during The Reynolds Pamphlet but it's not a line so barely mentioned in text, and it would be hard to describe all the minute gestures the cast brings to their performances). I don't know what a post-pandemic theater experience looks like, but I'm guessing it will be a while before live performances in person are a thing. Film and books scratch the itch but it's not quite the same as the performers and audience feeding off of each other's energy.… (mere)