148. Lin-Manuel Miranda: Everything is Basically the School Play

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In celebration of his new album, Warriors, Lin-Manuel Miranda sits down with Mike for a wide ranging talk about writing musicals, riding the subway, and taking big creative risks. Lin explains why you need so many ideas to write a musical, and he shares the important lessons he learns from writing and performing in school plays as a student. Plus, Lin recalls the origins of Hamilton and some of the more chaotic performances in the show’s run. Please consider donating to RISE Theatre.

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0:00.0	If someone's listening to this today, it's like, what would be your advice?
0:04.1	You know, if something's holding you back from unloading it all, what would be your tactic to get there?
0:09.5	Well, it's interesting because after I saw Rent, I wrote a bunch of 15 minute musicals
0:14.2	that sounded like Rent.
0:15.6	You know, like you chase the things that you like
0:20.1	and you're gonna fall short.
0:21.4	And then like if you chase enough different stuff you'll end up
0:24.0	sounding like yourself.
0:25.2	Yes.
0:26.4	I think that's...
0:27.4	A pause right.
0:28.4	That's the voice of the great Lin Manuel Miranda. Can you believe it?
0:39.2	This is an all-timer.
0:40.8	I have been asking Lin Manuel Miranda to come on this show since the dawn and
0:46.4	inception of working it out in 2020. We finally got them. What a great episode.
0:55.0	He's one of the people I admire most in all creative work.
0:59.0	He created a show you might have heard of called Hamilton
1:02.0	In The Heights Freestyle of Supreme.
1:05.4	He did the music for the movie in Canto, as well as Moana and others.
1:10.3	He co-created a new concept album with Esa Davis called Warriors.
1:15.8	It's so good.
1:17.5	It is based on the 1979 film, The Warriors, an iconic film.
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