Lin-Manuel Miranda to Star in ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN Film
By: Nicole Rosky Feb. 18, 2011
Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda is set to join the cast of Disney's "The Odd Life of Timothy Green." Miranda joins previously announced cast members Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, CJ Adams, Rosemarie DeWitt, Dianne Wiest, Ron Livingston, Odeya Rush, Emmet Walsh, Lois Smith, and Common.
According to the film's press notes the movie is "an inspiring, magical story about a couple, Cindy and Jim Green (Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton), who can't wait to start a family but can only dream about what their child would be like. When young Timothy (CJ Adams) shows up on their doorstep one stormy night, Cindy and Jim, and their small town of Stanleyville, discover a whole new view on what it is to love and be loved."
Miranda is most famous for writing and starring as Usnavi in the Broadway musical In the Heights, which opened on Broadway at theRichard Rodgers Theatre in 2008 and for which he won the Tony Award as composer and lyricist. He is currently working on a musical theatre version of Bring It On, based on the 2000 cheerleader comedy film of the same name. It is set to debut in Atlanta in 2011.
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