In the video below, Gordon Greenberg interviews Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda at the 2011 Broadway Teachers Workshop in New York City, where he talks about his childhood and shares some of the first songs he ever wrote. Click below to check out parts 2 and 3!
Miranda is most famous for writing and starring as Usnavi in the Broadway musical In the Heights, which opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in 2008 and for which he won the Tony Award as composer and lyricist. He also wrote Spanish language dialogue and worked with Stephen Sondheim to translate into Spanish song lyrics for the revival of West Side Story, which opened on Broadway in March 2009. Most recently her worked on a musical theatre version of Bring It On, based on the 2000 cheerleader comedy film of the same name.
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