On Monday, May 16, 2016, Lin-Manuel Miranda, an award-winning playwright of works such as Hamilton and In The Heights, gave a speech "The Stories We Tell" to the class of 2016 graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, an ivy-league school as well as everyone who has watched it live. Miranda focuses on the fact that the stories we chose to speak up about will allow the graduates to let themselves create their image of themselves. Sharing experiences with classmates they will never speak of again, or even ones they tell everyone. Miranda hits hard with his tone throughout the speech with little jokes to lighten the mood, he also uses his emotions to connect with the audience, and he uses repetition at the very end of the speech to get his point across. During Miranda's speech, he …show more content…
Additionally, Miranda also exclaims "Let me get into character for a moment and say "cheesesteaks, and you can have scrapple, soft pretzels, and Wawa hoagies whenever you want. You win, Philly. You win every time. Water ice. He discloses within the joke that Philly always wins, and gets laughs out of the audience. Miranda also uses his sense of emotion when he speaks to an audience. Miranda shows a very vulnerable side of him when he speaks to the audience, allowing them to connect with his stories. For example, Miranda announces "I broke up with my girlfriend that night." showing us that everyday human things happen to him even with him being an actor, letting the audience connect with him. Miranda also claims "My dear, terrified graduates- you are about to even the most uncertain and thrilling period of your lives." He doesn't hide the fact that they are going to enter a very scary part of
"Burn" is a show tune composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. He first revealed the very beginnings of the musical at a white house poetry reading. The show was the revealed to the public in the summer of 2015 and it's popularity skyrocketed. Other songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda are: "It's Quiet Uptown," "How Far I'll Go" and "We Know the Way." "Burn" is written in first person point of view. The fourth stanza holds a couplet and an alliteration. "You and your words flooded my senses/ Your sentences
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I hope that you are all having a wonderful night so far, but it’s time that we get down to business. Tonight we are here to honor a guest who has not only contributed greatly to entertainment but also has a paved a new way of learning for many of the younger generation. Our of guest of honor, at only thirty-six years old, has achieved things that some of us could only dream of doing in a hundred years. At nineteen, our guest wrote the first draft of his first
Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American composer, lyricist, playwright, and actor. Miranda was born around the 1980s in New York City. He was raised in the Inwood, Manhattan which is also known as Washington Heights and is of Puerto Rican descent. His neighborhood has had an affect on his musical stylings such as salsa, hip hop, and rap. He is a big activist and even joined Democratic lawmakers in a call for a Senate bill which would allow Puerto Rico to declare bankruptcy in order to ease debt. Miranda
Alexander Hamilton, One of Americas founding fathers, author of “The Federalist Papers,” and the gentleman on the ten-dollar bill, has a riveting Broadway musical biography on his life by the great Lin-Manuel Miranda. What makes this show absolutely unique is that it not just white men dressed up in powdered white wigs, it’s a contemporary piece with scores of music in pop, hip-hop, R&B and only uses Black and Latino actors. In theatre, the concept of colorblind casting has been used for a long time
The American Revolution left a groundbreaking influence on modern culture. Artists attempt to capture principles of the war with plays, stories, and movies. However, one of the most notable and recent adaptations, is the play Hamilton: An American Musical. Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer and actor of Hamilton himself, utilizes play structure and creative techniques to reflect on the characteristic state of resilience, which was fundamental in terms of American success. Throughout the play, the importance
shows are… Hamilton The Lion King Wicked Hamilton is a Hip-hop history lesson. This musical tells the story of the first american immigrant, Alexander Hamilton, and the formation of The United States of America around the time of the Revolutionary war. This show is so unique not only because it is telling the history of our country in the form of Hip-hop. It was said by the writer of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, that the casting choices are a very important part of the show because he did not want
On February 17, 2015, the world of Broadway and musical theatre was introduced to Hamilton: An American Musical written by young composer, Lin Manuel-Miranda. Hamilton is a musical, based on the book Alexander Hamilton written by Ron Chernow, which tells the story of the life and tragedies of founding father Alexander Hamilton. This musical uses various styles of rap, hip-hop and R&B music that remain foreign genres when it comes to the average show tune that you’ve heard. Bringing in about $30 million
Lin-Manuel Miranda Brings Life onto a Latino Stage Tony winning composer-lyricist, Lin-Manuel Miranda, said that, "Life is like a play, and a script can be created with each experience lived". His father always told him, "Lin Manuel...to be successful you must study." (Univision) That's because he always liked best the arts, music, and other afterschool activities. His parents helped him realize that an education was necessary and that his dreams would come true by finishing his studies and with
True to Miranda’s description, Hamilton tells the story of Alexander Hamilton so that Americans of today can relate. For instance, Hamilton uses modern hip-hop music style to amplify a better interpretation for the everyday American. For many Americans this style of music rings true
“Rise up! When you’re living on your knees, you rise up.” In Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton and his fellow colonists “rise up” against the British monarchy’s oppression of the colonies. The lyric very much relates to Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle. The Jungle follows the story of an immigrant family living in Chicago whose lives and human dignities are exploited due to American Capitalism and corruption. Sinclair conveys his attitude toward this through