Lin-Manuel Miranda

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🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Lin-Manuel Miranda is almost an EGOT winner, but that’s not how he defines success. Miranda shares never-heard-before anecdotes from behind-the-scenes of his buzziest projects: Encanto, In the Heights, Hamilton and tick, tick…BOOM! He talks with host Kelley Carter about how he knows when he’s nailed a lyric, what it’s like writing songs with his kids, and what love advice he’d give his younger self. Plus, hear what Steven Spielberg told him when he snuck onto the Westside Story set. Then, ABC Audio’s entertainment contributor Matt Wolfe and international culture correspondent Miriam Spritzer, join Kelley to dissect Miranda’s recent award-winning work, discuss highlights from the SAG awards, and take a closer look at the controversial changes producers are making to the Oscars telecast this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So there are a million things Lin-Manuel Miranda hasn't done like when an Oscar, but just
0:10.5	you wait, just you wait.
0:15.4	Welcome to Close Up, I'm Kelly Carter and I know you really wanted to hear that at the
0:22.0	top of this podcast.
0:25.0	Okay.
0:27.8	That was horrible and really cheesy and I promise I won't ever do that to you again.
0:33.8	But can you blame me when you've gifted the world a genius piece of art like Hamilton?
0:40.9	You gotta quote it and you gotta sing it and because you're listening to this, I already
0:46.9	know your Lin-Manuel Miranda nerd and that you, like me, rock out on your car with the
0:53.2	windows rolled up, singing at the top of your lungs like you actually have the pipes
0:58.2	of Renee Elise Goldsbury, but you know you don't or when you're in the comfort of your
1:11.4	living room all alone and no one else is around, you give that deep bend in your legs
1:17.5	like you're the second coming of Leslie Odom Jr.
1:28.2	No, just me.
1:33.7	And in any case, I for sure know that you know a lot about the genius of Lin-Manuel Miranda,
1:41.6	but believe it or not, in the conversation that you're about to hear, he dives in on
1:46.8	some things that I haven't even heard him give before.
1:49.6	For starters, his first audience is his kids and he tests out the material with them years
1:55.7	before the world actually years it, but they have to know the ins and outs of what he calls
2:01.0	the toddler NDA.
2:02.8	You get it.
2:03.9	Because otherwise, they'd go singing their favorite in Conto's song all over the school
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