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VIDEO: Mom Says HAMILTON's Lin-Manuel Miranda's First Rap Was About Garbage Pail Kids

By: Feb. 22, 2016
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"One of the earliest recordings we have of Lin is of him inventing music based on the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards," says Luz Towns-Miranda, mother of HAMILTON's author/star Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Well, it was still another twenty years until Ron Chernow's biography ALEXANDER HAMILTON would be published.

With all the accolades and awards that his son has already gathered from admirers of the hit musical, Luis Miranda says HAMILTON is like an orange that you think has been squeezed dry, but somehow keeps giving juice.

In a Spanish language, English subtitled video for Telemundo/NBC the younger Miranda explains why the story of Alexander Hamilton is especially appropriate for being told in rap.

The new musical Hamilton has book, music and lyrics by Tony and Grammy Award-winning composerLin-Manuel Miranda, who also plays the title role. The musical is directed by Thomas Kail, with choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and music direction and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire. Hamilton is inspired by Ron Chernow's biography "Alexander Hamilton."

The cast of Hamilton is comprised of Lin-Manuel Miranda (Alexander Hamilton), Daveed Diggs(Marquis De Lafayette,Thomas Jefferson), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler),Christopher Jackson (George Washington),Jonathan Groff (King George), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler, Maria Reynolds), Javier Muñoz (Hamilton alternate), Okieriete Onaodowan(Hercules Mulligan, James Madison), Leslie Odom, Jr. (Aaron Burr),Anthony Ramos(John Laurens, PhilipHamilton) and Phillipa Soo (Eliza Hamilton).

HAMILTON is the acclaimed new musical about the scrappy young immigrant Alexander Hamilton, the $10 Founding Father who forever changed America with his revolutionary ideas and actions. During his life cut too short, he served as George Washington's chief aide, was the first Treasury Secretary, a loving husband and father, despised by his fellow Founding Fathers and shot to death by Aaron Burr in their legendary duel.





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