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Get your first look at Disney Animation Studios’ latest film, Encanto, Set to release in fall 2021, Encanto takes you to Colombia, where a magical family lives in a magical home. Directed by Byron Howard and Jared Bush, co-directed and co-written by Charise Castro Smith, and music written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Lin_Manuel: Been working on this for nearly three years. So proud of this music and this story. Can’t wait to share more.
Super super super orgulloso. #Encanto
The creator and star of “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda, and the original cast and crew of the hit Broadway show discuss why the film version is so important right now.
The filmed version of the original Broadway hit Hamilton is coming during a timely moment—not just because we’re stuck in our homes during self-isolation amid a pandemic, but because it allows us an opportunity to revisit and reckon with the history of this nation’s founding fathers during a national uprising.
So, as we watch this extremely popular reimagining of American history created and told by people of color, we can’t help but state the obvious: These are men lauded as American heroes who fought for freedom, but many of those same fighters proved themselves hypocrites by owning enslaved Black people.
I sat down via Zoom to have a virtual conversation with show creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda (Alexander Hamilton), Daveed Diggs (Marquis de Lafayette / Thomas Jefferson), Christopher Jackson (George Washington), Leslie Odom, Jr. (Aaron Burr), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler) and more to discuss this historically important time in our lives, and they certainly had a lot to say about it. The passion jumped out!
“Hamilton” Cast Finds Out Which Disney/Hamilton Character Combos They Are
(In which Tommy pretends not to know what Moana is.)
Hamilton OBC on the Kelly Clarkson Show
If you ever thought the “Hamilton” cast may be as much fun as their hit Broadway show – you guessed right! Find out who curses the most, who starts spontaneous dance parties, who drank out of their Grammy Award and so much more as Kelly grills Lin-Manuel Miranda with her need-to-know questions.
Lin-Manuel Miranda says he couldn’t believe how fast the appetite grew for “Hamilton” and how it felt like overnight their audience went from 10 people to 800 people. The Broadway superstar tells Kelly Clarkson how their staff connected with fans in the Ham4Ham shows and how grateful he is that he’s been able to provide so many roles for Black and Latino actors in musical theater. He also shares how the themes of revolution in the musical are applying to present day activism.
Lin-Manuel Miranda went on a serious hunt to cast the perfect Schuyler Sisters and he dishes on the amazing ways that he found Phillipa Soo, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Jasmine Cephas Jones. Plus, Lin shares a funny story about how Renee wowed him in her audition with this superstar quality!
Daveed Diggs and Leslie Odom Jr. tell Kelly Clarkson how they ended up being in the hit production of “Hamilton.” Daveed, who is in a band with Lin-Manuel Miranda, said that at first he thought the idea of a rap musical about “Hamilton” was absurd, but once he heard the songwriting he was all in!
Beyond ‘Hamilton’ itself, and his debut musical ‘In the Heights’ before that, Miranda composed the soaring earworm “How Far I’ll Go” for ‘Moana,’ a tune for the cantina scene in J.J. Abrams’ ‘The Force Awakens’ (lyrics in Huttese), and more. With the whole world about to settle into a front-row seat to ‘Hamilton,’ Rotten Tomatoes sat down with Miranda for an extended, in-depth dissection of the influences on his music and breakdown of the complex construction of some of the best songs he’s produced. Want to know what boy band 98 Degrees has to do with ‘In The Heights’ showstopper “96,000”? Or how he constructed “un-f—kwithable,” super-dense couplets for “My Shot”? Miranda goes deep in our exclusive extended interview.
“I’m always trying to get us on the board. I’m trying to get us in that room.”
So real question will it be Barry or the Legends that mess up and change reality just enough to give the universe a new Kate Kane?