Because when I was in the theater last night watching the play, I thought “God, I hope he’s having fun.” Because I was having so much fun watching it. But it was my list of 25 things and we just set about knocking them out. Some of them were a line, some of them were a whole song we needed to address. From an off-Broadway Hamilton to a Broadway Hamilton, I’d list 25 things with Tommy. Lin-Manuel Miranda: Hamilton had like, a good six month run where I was in it and could feel the reactions. Not unlike Alexander Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda is non-stop… But before it opened on Broadway that July, Lin insisted on taking two months to cut and polish the script and the score. It opened off-Broadway at the Public Theater in January 2015 to rapturous reviews. Hamilton itself was six years in the making. Lin-Manuel Miranda was born and raised in New York City where he set his first play In the Heights –which by the way, won Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Original Score. The result is a riveting, immediate piece of theater that makes the founding of the country and the virulent arguments around its direction as current as today’s news. But Miranda focuses on Hamilton as an immigrant, and he tells that story with a multi-racial cast and through hip-hop infused contemporary music, that nonetheless has some serious Broadway musical chops. Created by Lin-Manuel Miranda who himself received three nominations -for book, score, and his performance in the title role, the play tells the story of Alexander Hamilton’s life and death. Hamilton is a cultural phenomenon as its 16 Tony nominations, Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award indicate. And you’ll hear more about this over the next few weeks. And I am happy to report we just learned that the National Endowment for the Arts will receive a special Tony Award this year for its invaluable contribution to theater over the last half century. And this is Art Works, the weekly podcast produced at the National Endowment for the Arts. Jo Reed: That is Lin-Manuel Miranda who created, stars in and wrote the book and music for Hamilton which was just nominated for a record-breaking 16 Tony Awards. I’d be lying if I didn’t say it was exhilarating that I was still working on Hamilton’s last words until the day we froze.
So I always take great care that everybody’s got their stuff and then I’ll worry about my stuff, which was…exhilarating.
So I do not have the same process of like, oh man, that’s a lot of lines to memorize as the other actors in my company. It was sort of the thing I kept saving for last because I don’t have to memorize lines. All of the last things that needed to be written were all Hamilton’s. Lin-Manuel Miranda: Any of the cast or crew could tell you I was very masochistic. Music Credits: “The Schuyler Sisters,” “Non-Stop,” Cabinet Battle 1” all written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and excerpted from the play, Hamilton,
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