Episode 21: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Theater People

Patrick Hinds and Mike Jensen

Tony Awards, Nyc, Musicals, Actors, Creative, Arts, Plays, Writers, Broadway, Theater, Society & Culture, Interview, Comedy, Producers, Performing Arts

4.8 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The Tony, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk (and every other conceivable) winning and Pulitzer Prize nominated GENIUS talks the upcoming "Hamilton," "In the Heights," and growing up in NYC.

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0:00.0	I'm Anna Lee Ashford.
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0:10.4	I'm Karen Livo, and you are listening to The Theater People Podcast.
0:19.9	Hello, fellow theater people.
0:21.3	Welcome to episode 21 of the Theater People podcast.
0:24.1	I'm Patrick Hines, your host.
0:26.2	Even a casual listener to our show knows that I am obsessed with today's guest, the genius, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
0:33.3	I first met Lynn back in 2003 when my friend Tommy Kale suggested I write a piece about him
0:38.0	and the one-act musical he was writing called In the Heights.
0:40.9	And so I did.
0:42.0	It was Lynn's first interview ever about the show and I remember him speaking so enthusiastically and with such conviction.
0:48.7	It was as if he just knew that even though at that moment the show was just a bare-bones one act
0:53.2	being workshopped in the basement of the drama bookshop.
0:55.8	Somehow, he was going to find a way to get it to Broadway.
0:59.3	In the years since, as I've watched him go from an unknown,
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