Schwartz and Miranda Musical?

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#1Schwartz and Miranda Musical?
Posted: 6/8/08 at 11:56am

I was watching NY1 last week and Lin-Manuel Miranda was being interviewed. He mentioned that he was planning on working with Stephen Schwartz on a musical. I was wondering if anyone knew anything about this.


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Updated On: 6/8/08 at 11:56 AM

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#2re: Shwartz and Miranda Musical?
Posted: 6/8/08 at 12:00pm

That would be really exciting!


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RyToast1
#2re: Shwartz and Miranda Musical?
Posted: 6/8/08 at 12:00pm

Working.

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#3re: Shwartz and Miranda Musical?
Posted: 6/8/08 at 12:04pm

That sounds...interesting.

(BTW it's Schwartz.)

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#4re: Shwartz and Miranda Musical?
Posted: 6/8/08 at 12:15pm

my bad. But how is Lin going to be involed, Are they re-working it (seriously no pun intended)or something?


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Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)

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#6re: Shwartz and Miranda Musical?
Posted: 6/8/08 at 12:24pm

Actually, the Variety article has a brief mention about the songs themselves-

Work on "Working" began in earnest about a year ago. "We started talking about a composer who would add another flavor, something contemporary and something Latino," Greenberg says. With that in mind, Schwartz asked Miranda to participate.

The composer-lyricist contributes two new tunes, a song about a man who works at McDonald's (based on his own first job at an Upper West Side Mickey D's) and another about immigrant senior-care workers.

"It's a job no one else wants to do," Miranda says. "Those are basically the jobs immigrants do in America. That's how we start."


'Working' class heroes returned

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#7re: Shwartz and Miranda Musical?
Posted: 6/8/08 at 12:25pm

Interesting...

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#8re: Shwartz and Miranda Musical?
Posted: 6/8/08 at 12:34pm

Any videos or song snippets?


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#9re: Shwartz and Miranda Musical?
Posted: 6/8/08 at 12:37pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8zj-8bnxP8



Did anyone see it?



Updated On: 6/8/08 at 12:37 PM

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#10re: Shwartz and Miranda Musical?
Posted: 6/8/08 at 2:10pm

thats awesome, my high school did working a few years ago, its a great show. I wish i could have seen this production though.


<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)

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#11re: Shwartz and Miranda Musical?
Posted: 6/8/08 at 4:02pm

Lin sang a few snippets from one of the songs in an interview. I think it was the Playbill Radio interview after the Tony nominations. I remember hearing him sings parts of a song, and it was all about hamburgers.