Two months ago, Lin-Manuel Miranda became a father to his second child, and now he has the adult version of a childhood disease.
The Broadway legend tweeted that he had the worst migraine of his life, but turns out he did not have one. He explained what is really ailing him, by writing “Hey, cool story This isn’t a migraine, it’s shingles! Caught it early, quarantined away from the baby, in a Phantom mask til further notice.”
Now the man who made millions on the Great White Way is stuck staying with his parents until the doctors clear him to go back to his house. Something I am sure his mother is loving because what mother does not love to spoil her sick child? I am sure she is giving him all the chicken soup he wants. Can chicken soup make the chickenpox/shingles feel less itchy?
On a personal note, this is very difficult for me to write. I never had the chickenpox. Even though I got the vaccine, every time I hear either chickenpox or shingles, I immediately start to itch. I have been itching like crazy while writing this and there is nothing I can do to stop it.
We all know all the music to Hamilton as is, but Weird Al Yankovic changed it up. He gave it his own special feel and that means Polka. The rap musical sounds nothing like you are used to, and yet it strangely works. Coming to Broadway in 2020, Polkaton.
In case you have not heard, Lin-Manuel Miranda played Alexander Hamilton in a little Broadway musical he wrote, directed and starred in called Hamilton. But how is the New York Puerto Rican going to meet the man who died 213 years ago? He is not. So what happens if he comes across a statue of one America’s founding fathers? Hamilton looks at him, like “Where’s my cut of the pie, bitch?” Something Mirnada owes him a lot of Alexander Hamiltons aka $10 bills for all the Benjamin Franklins he made off of the Tony winning show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJd0-sRffFE&t=0s
James Corden put on another Crosswalk Musical outside the CBS studios where he tapes The Late Late Show and this time he is doing Hair. The host got a huge name to guest star with him and that name is Lin-Manuel Miranda. The two men along with several background dancers took it to the streets of Fairfax and belted out Age of Aquarius and Hair to the several frustrated drivers who are stuck in LA traffic. Suddenly they were less upset.
But then everyone got a big surprise for the musical’s final number Let the Sunshine In. For those of you not familiar with the Broadway play, that is where the cast gets naked. CBS and California told the two Tony winners that they could not go full monty in public, but did they listen? Nope, they let the sunshine in all over their bodies. That’s right we saw their sun and moon as the passerbys were singing Good Morning Starshine in their cars if know what I mean!
The only problem I had with that number was seeing Corden’s mic pack coming out of his butt. Let’s not assume what was holding it in place…
Finally, Hair and Little Shop of Horrors are my favorite musicals, so I am very critical of all renditions of both shows. And all I have to say is they did the musical proud! Bravo! Bravo! Franks Mills would give it two penises up! White Boys, Black Boys and people from Manchester, England across the Atlantic sea would love this crosswalk version as much as I do!
Hairspray, Into the Woods, The Producers, Dreamgirls, Rent, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Les Misérables are just a few of the more recent Broadway musicals that have transitioned from the Great White Way to the big screen. Therefore, it only makes sense for Al Roker today on Today to ask Lin-Manuel Miranda if his Tony Award winning show Hamilton will do the same. The Broadway baby told him that he supposes so, but he is still waiting for Wicked and Book of Mormon to get their day in the projector light. But after that and a few others, “Yeah, at some point.”
I am sure it will get a movie adaptation before the other two that he mentioned because if they have not done Wicked by now, who knows if they ever will? I would love to see them both go from Broadway to Hollywood, so hopefully the big wigs will make it happen sooner rather than later.
