Lin-Manuel Miranda took his final bow as Hamilton yesterday. As soon as he was done, he separated himself from a big part of what made him Alexander Hamilton. Gone is the shoulder length hair. Without the ponytail, there is no going back. For now…
Before Lin-Manuel Miranda was singing and dancing to packed audiences on Broadway in his Tony Award winning musical In The Heights, he was singing and dancing to a videocamera in his bedroom located in the Heights. You could totally tell the 12 year old was going to be a star back in 1992 when rocked out to Go West’s King of Wishful Thinking!
James Corden is in NYC prepping for the Tony Awards and he asked some friends to help him navigate 42nd Street. As we know Manhattan can be a Little Shop of Horrors with all of those Cats and Grease, so the more the merrier. He filled up his car with some Guys and Dolls and together Lin-Manuel Miranda, Audra McDonald, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jane Krakowski turned his trip into a Starlight Express. As they drove down A Chorus Line, they belted out tunes from Hamilton, Rent and Les Miz making The Late Late Show‘s road to the Tonys anything but Les Misérables.
Have you been wondering what the full version of Jabba Flow from Star Wars: The Force Awakens sounds like? Well not only did Lin-Manuel Miranda and J.J. Abrams perform the song they wrote outside the backstage door of Hamilton, Lucasfilm made it available to download on iTunes.
What a wonderful present from them to us on May the Fourth Be With You. So party like you are at Maz Kanata’s castle because you know you want to.
