{"id":105658,"date":"2022-06-12T04:48:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T23:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/lin-manuel-miranda-promises-a-doozy-of-an-opening-number-by-tony-awards-host-and-hamilton-alum-ariana-debose\/"},"modified":"2022-06-12T04:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T23:18:04","slug":"lin-manuel-miranda-promises-a-doozy-of-an-opening-number-by-tony-awards-host-and-hamilton-alum-ariana-debose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/lin-manuel-miranda-promises-a-doozy-of-an-opening-number-by-tony-awards-host-and-hamilton-alum-ariana-debose\/","title":{"rendered":"Lin-Manuel Miranda Promises \u201cA Doozy Of An Opening Number\u201d By Tony Awards Host And \u2018Hamilton\u2019 Alum Ariana DeBose"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lin-Manuel Miranda promises that Tony Awards host Ariana DeBose, an original cast member in Hamilton<\/em> before her Oscar win for West Side Story<\/em> will have \u201ca doozy of an opening number\u201d kicking off Sunday night\u2019s show.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be dancing,\u201d he predicted in a telephone interview with Deadline, without revealing specifics. \u201cYou couldn\u2019t ask for a better host.\u201d Miranda noted that he is attending the Tonys even though he \u201cdoesn\u2019t have a horse in the race.\u201d In large part, the night will be about celebrating Broadway\u2019s return from the devastation of Covid.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just rallying,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is\u00a0Job-like what theater has gone through, so this will be an incredible rally for the whole theater community.\u201d The Omicron variant, which gathered steam at the end of 2021 just as the holiday season was beginning was \u201ccrushing at a tme when we most depending on tourist business,\u201d Miranda noted.<\/p>\n

The interview came two weeks after Miranda had to skip a gala in his honor at the Greenwich International Film Festival in Connecticut due to his own bout with Covid, from which he has recovered.<\/p>\n

The playwright and filmmaker received the Changemaker Award, which GIFF gives to artists who have used their public platform and the medium of film to further positive social change. Branching out from his theater roots, Miranda has assembled an increasingly robust body of film work, with last year seeing a peak level of activity. His original songs appeared in Disney\u2019s animated Oscar winner Encanto<\/em>; he directed Netflix\u2019s Oscar-nominated musical tick \u2026 tick \u2026 BOOM!<\/em> And he also appeared in and produced the big-screen version of his breakthrough musical In The Heights<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the gala in Greenwich, Jimmy Fallon accepted the award on Miranda\u2019s behalf. Jessica Darrow, who was the voice of Luisa Madrigal in Encanto, sang \u201cDear Theodosia\u201d from Hamilton<\/em>, whose former cast members Warren Egypt Franklin and Ren\u00e9e Elise Goldsberry also performed. In addition, Goldberry also had a conversation about The Miranda Family Foundation with Luis Miranda.<\/p>\n

In the interview, Miranda said the foundation \u201cstarted very organically\u201d after Hamilton<\/em> became a once-in-a-lifetime commercial juggernaut. \u201cA combination of good luck and incredible hard work got me through the doors,\u201d he said. \u201cSo our question was, \u2018How do you widen those doors behind you?\u2019 \u2026 Piece by piece, we\u2019re trying to create opportunities for artists of color.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, he said, there is a \u201cbroader alumni network of Miranda Fellows \u2013 they all know each other\u201d and that networking will ultimately be the foundation\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lin-Manuel Miranda promises that Tony Awards host Ariana DeBose, an original cast member in Hamilton before her Oscar win for West Side Story will have \u201ca doozy of an opening number\u201d kicking off Sunday night\u2019s show. \u201cThere will be dancing,\u201d he predicted in a telephone interview with Deadline, without revealing specifics. \u201cYou couldn\u2019t ask for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":105659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Lin-Manuel-Miranda-Promises-A-Doozy-Of-An-Opening-Number-By.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}