Lin-Manuel Miranda stopped by The Tonight Show to discuss Hamilton heading to movie theaters and took the opportunity to perform a medley of songs from the musical using classroom instruments. The musicians and composer was joined by host Jimmy Fallon and house band the Roots for the lively performance, which …
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Still reeling from news of The Late Show‘s unexpected cancellation, Stephen Colbert called on Weird Al Yankovic and Lin-Manuel Miranda to lift audience spirits on Monday evening. As everyone knows, the best way to distract from your own sudden misfortune is to laugh at someone else’s. Fittingly, Yankovic and Miranda …
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There are a million things Alexander Hamilton hasn’t done, but reuniting the original cast of the Broadway blockbuster Hamilton isn’t one. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo, Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson, Jonathan Groff, Ariana DeBose, and others took the stage at the 2025 Tony Awards in …
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Two years ago, Lil Wayne released a career-spanning compilation, I Am Music. It seems like an impossible task to summarize three decades of music that dates to his febrile debut as one-half of B.G.z in 1995, spans a record-breaking number of entries on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as …
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In 2013, Renée Elise Goldsberry had everything she wanted. She was finally a mother with two young children and a successful theater and television career. She was content. Then she got a call to audition for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new project. At first, she said no. The project, it turned out, …
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To mark Hamilton‘s 10th anniversary, Lin-Manuel Miranda and the production’s original cast will reunite at the Tony Awards. More than two dozen cast members — including Leslie Odom, Jr., Phillipa Soo, Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson, Jonathan Groff, and Ariana DeBose — will participate. The Tony Awards will …
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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. The venue originally announced plans for the yearlong celebration in July 2024, noting the return of Hamilton to the prestigious stage. But that was before Donald Trump was elected …
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Lin-Manuel Miranda hoped to play a minor role in the film adaptation of Wicked but his casting request was denied, he said during a Monday appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “In the opening number of the show, this one munchkin runs out and goes, ‘Is it true …
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The first Saturday Night Live since Donald Trump‘s second inauguration began with the Republican president interrupting the signing of the Declaration of Independence–which Lin-Manuel Miranda had begun to rap about–in order to proclaim that he’s in his “king era.” Trump (James Austin Johnson) proceeded to defend his actions thus far, …
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Long before he ruled over everything the light touches, lead creatures from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope, and issued proclamations with the gravitas of a CNN-tagline announcer, Mufasa the lion king was just a lion cub. He, too, had parents that loved and nurtured him, and spoke of …
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