this is stupid but listen……….it rhymes
Tag: in the heights
Christopher Jackson and Lin-Manuel Miranda 2008 vs. 2016 Tony performance
Look at our C-Jack and Lin-Man! Pride is not the word I’m looking for! (x,x)
Ahhhhhhh
I was just thinking off the top of my head.
Look at the fireworks…light up the night sky…en Washington Heights!
When I was a child, I stayed wide awake. Climbed to the highest place on every fire escape, restless to climb! I got every scholarship, saved every dollar! The first to go to college! How do I tell them why I’m coming back home? With my eyes on the horizon…
with patience and faith, we remain unafraid!
A detail that I couldn’t get into the show. It ends with Eliza [Hamilton] and it’s all about her 50 years alive after Hamilton died. Something else: Eliza established the first school in Washington Heights.
And we had a line. And I put it in, where it was like “the first school” — and they went, in Washington Heights. I took the melody from my own shit in In the Heights, but it was just too on the nose. You just can’t. Even though it’s historically true, I can’t actually say “in Washington Heights” at the end of my fucking show. But it was there to be mine.
So imagine, I’m reading this book. And then I read that in the closing chapter. It was a confirmation — I was supposed to do this.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Genius: A Conversation With ‘Hamilton’ Maestro Lin-Manuel Miranda (via realfinemood)
But hey I worked with what they gave me, ok?
Fake Benevolence 