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...Manuel Miranda: I’m a fan of storytelling, and I’m a fan of lots of different genres of music. I think that one of the things that unfortunately sometimes happens is you get people who only listen to musicals writing musicals and they don’t see what those composers were pulling from. So with “Heights,” I tried to bring in the music I love and use those types of music to tell stories. I’m always compelled by good storytelling, whether it?...
...wrote a draft my sophomore year; it wasn’t for course credit or anything. I just really felt like I needed to write it, and I wanted to write a full-length musical. They say to write what you know, so I took everything that I knew and threw it into the pot and called it “In the Heights,” and then over the course of the eight-year process getting “Heights” to Broadway, I learned how to write. It’s a lot of discarded songs...
...think most writers try to put out in the world what they don’t see, and I wanted to write the kind of musical I’ve always wanted to see—and hip-hop is sorely lacking. I mean, if you’ve seen hip-hop in musicals before “Heights”—at least Broadway ones—if hip-hop is used, it’s ironically commenting, “Hey we’re rapping and we’re lame...
...advice is to keep writing. You have a lot of free time on your hands in college, so write as much as you can now. You will not have that free time when you are working a nine-to-five job trying to make your dreams come true. I wrote a play every year when I was in school, sometimes two, and I was determined to leave with more than my diploma under my arm. The other thing is to just be nice. That sounds so cliché, but you will meet the same people going up as you will...
...write what you know to be true, and I mean that in a much more abstract sense. You know, like this Hamilton project I’m working on. I’m not a founding father, I didn’t grow up during the Revolutionary War, but when I read Ron Chernow’s biography of Hamilton, there was something about Hamilton’s drive to excel and to use words to excel that really spoke to me in a way and I said, “I know that guy.” It?...