Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

I am very especially excited to bring you this interview today.

My conversation with the great Lin-Manuel Miranda, he is of course the creator and star of

the Broadway phenomenon Hamilton.

It's something he dreamed up while he was on vacation in 2008 reading a biography of Alexander

Hamilton when he saw something.

Perhaps no one else on Earth could have seen which is a hip-hop musical about the founding

fathers and the rest is history.

Lin is the director of a new film called Tick-Tick Boom.

It tells the story of Jonathan Larson, another guy kind of like Lin-Manuel Miranda, who

was a grinder, who loved Broadway and was writing his own shows and eventually composed

and wrote Rent, another big Broadway phenomenon.

Now Jonathan Larson did not live to see the success of Rent and that's partly what

this movie is about.

Andrew Garfield stars as Jonathan Larson, a lot of people talking about awards for this

film and this is the first time that Lin has ever directed a feature movie.

So it could be some good things coming for him here.

He's won Tonys, he's won Emmys, he's won Grammys, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Hamilton,

could he add an Oscar?

We will see.

The New York City native, his first big hit was in the Heights.

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