STAGE TUBE: Lin-Manuel Miranda Raps for Helen Mirren at the Drama League Awards!

By: May. 28, 2015
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Earlier this month, Broadway's best gathered at the Marriott Marquis to celebrate the 81st Annual Drama League Awards. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who was nominated for his performance in Hamilton, decided to rap his acceptance speech, which was focused around who else, but the incomparable Helen Mirren! Check it out below.

His Broadwaycredits include: Composer-Lyricist-Usnavi of In the Heights (Tony Award, Grammy Award, Pulitzer Prize finalist); Bring It On: The Musical (co-composer/co-lyricist);West Side Story (2009 revival, Spanish translations). Off-Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along; tick, tick...BOOM! (both City Center Encores!). Emmy Award with Tom Kitt for "Bigger" from the 67th Annual Tony Awards. TV/film: "Freestyle Love Supreme," "How I Met Your Mother," "Smash," "Do No Harm," "Modern Family," "House," "The Electric Company," "Sesame Street," "The Sopranos," The Odd Life of Timothy Green and 200 Cartas.

HAMILTON will arrive on Broadway this summer at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The show will start previews on July 13th and will open on August 6th. Tickets are now on sale. The world premiere production of Hamilton, inspired by the book "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow, withbook, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and directed by Thomas Kail opened February 17, 2015 at the Public Theater. The show ended its run on May 3rd.


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