VIDEO: HAMILTON's Lin-Manuel Miranda Plays 'Wheel of Freestyle', Talks Broadway Hit & More on TONIGHT

On last night's TONIGHT SHOW, Hamilton star and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and The Roots' Tariq were given random words they had never seen before and had to work them into a freestyle rap in a game of "Wheel of Freestyle." Later, Miranda shared a story about a great backstage encounter with a very famous Hamilton audience member, and talked about freestyling Jimmy's outgoing voicemail message. Watch all the clips from last night's appearance below!

About Hamilton: From the creative team behind the Tony Award-winning In The Heights comes a wildly inventive new musical about the scrappy young immigrant who forever changed America: AlexanderHamilton. Tony and Grammy Award winnerLin-Manuel Miranda wields his pen and takes the stage as the unlikely founding father determined to make his mark on a new nation as hungry and ambitious as he is.

From bastard orphan to Washington's right hand man, rebel to war hero, loving husband caught in the country's first sex SCANDAL to Treasury head who made an untrusting world believe in the American economy, Hamilton is an exploration of a political mastermind. George Washington,Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton, and lifelongHamiltonfriend and foe,Aaron Burr, all attend this revolutionary tale of America's fiery past told through the sounds of the ever-changing nation we've become. Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail directs this new musical about taking your shot, speaking your mind, and turning the world upside down.

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