Lin Manuel Miranda Play Analysis

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This speech is going to be different from the other ones. We are going to have some fun because I am going to use something called alliteration. I am going to rhyme. And yes, the whole time. I decided to do this as a sort of tribute to my person. Most people know it, but he is quite the poet. I basically wrote a huge stanza about Lin-Manuel Miranda. Hamilton is a play that most of you have heard of right? I am going to tell you straight off the bat that he wrote that. But the thing is, it makes me furious sometimes when we praise the work more than the artist. I mean, I am guilty of sometimes not being by any means curious about the behind-the-scenes. I would hate to simply bond his character to his work because Miranda is an inspiration that is embraced by the whole nation (and Canada and beyond). So, let us pretend that I am an instructor of choreography and take two steps back to talk about his biography. He spent his first day as a baby in New York City in 1980. Miranda was born to a psychologist and a politician. But even so, he was destined to become an actor and musician. In his early years, his sister and him both took piano lessons which gave them long-lasting impressions. In high school, Lin started writing a play called In the Heights that would see the bright stage lights of Broadway and would be …show more content…

So, he decided to put his own spin on it. He had an epiphany. You see, he wanted to write something about history. The writer thought it would attract only teachers and that the number would probably be what it would take to fill our school bleachers (or a little more). But he was wrong, he was making something we had never seen before. The man from Manhattan wanted to express himself modernly, nothing like Latin. The audience took that well; they thought it was “swell”. They wish they could have done more than just clap, and the critics…they said, “Oh snap! It has rap!” That is his life in a

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