Lin-Manuel Miranda Has Had an Insane Couple of Weeks

March 8, 2018

It’s been a while since we checked in on Lin-Manuel Miranda, who at this point really needs no introduction. Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the Broadway debut of In the Heights, Miranda’s first big hit that laid the groundwork for him to revolutionize the Great White Way with Hamilton.

But aside from that, he’s had a pretty insane couple of weeks, even by Miranda standards. Here’s what you might have missed.

Miranda got emotional telling Oprah about bringing Hamilton to Puerto Rico.

If you can listen to him talk about taking Hamilton home to Puerto Rico without tearing up, you’re a lot tougher than we are. He’ll be reprising his Tony-nominated role as part of his ongoing efforts to assist with recovery after Hurricane Maria. The hit musical lands in Puerto Rico January 2019.

We got our first glimpse of him in Mary Poppins Returns.

The teaser trailer for the sequel to the seminal movie musical is—dare we say it?—positively supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. (We’re hoping for just a smidge more dancing in the full trailers.) It dropped during the Academy Awards, during which Miranda and his co-star Emily Blunt presented the award for Best Original Song (the category in which he was nominated last year for Moana).

Hamilton set a new record for Olivier Award nominations.

Lin-Manuel Miranda and the original Broadway cast of Hamilton. Photo by Joan Marcus, Courtesy Hamilton

Hamilton
has broken so many records at this point that it’s practically blasé, but scooping up 13 Olivier Award nominations (the British equivalent of the Tony Awards) is incredible. Beyond the Best New Musical nomination, Miranda is up for Outstanding Achievement in Music, Andy Blankenbuehler got a nod for Best Theater Choreographer and the West End cast has nominations in every eligible acting category except Best Actress in a Musical (including three of the four Actor in a Supporting Role nominations).

Miranda did an incredible, ridiculous lip sync performance of Weird Al’s “The Hamilton Polka.”

The March 2 February 30 Hamildrop was a Hamilton reimagining/remix/mashup by none other than “Weird Al” Yankovic. And if that weren’t crazy enough, Miranda and Yankovic teamed up with Jimmy Fallon for an epic lip sync of the track.