Lin-Manuel Miranda is hitting the heights: The Big Interview
The 32-year-old actor/singer/hip-hop artist/composer/lyricist was only 28 in 2008 when In the Heights opened on Broadway, winning a Tony as the Best Musical and giving Miranda the Tony nod for Best Score, as well as grabbing the Grammy that year... Lin-Manuel Miranda, the composer of the Tony Award-winning musical that Dancap is bringing to the Toronto Centre for the Arts on Feb. “Man, I never thought anything like this was going to happen,” he laughs, wiping hot sauce off his fingers. I thought it was going to be like Rent. 7, is having lunch with me at the Garden Café, at the northern end of the huge Hispanic barrio on Manhattan’s west side that serves as the location for his show. He laughs at the culinary irony and says, “This show celebrates that we’re all from some specific place, but at a certain point in our journeys, we all have to decide what we take with us and what falls away as we move forward.
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