"There are 20 kids singing, all very shy, and there is Lin-Manuel," Luis recalls, arms flailing in the air, re-enacting his performance. They were singing backup on David Pomeranz's "In Our Hands."
Then, of course, there was the time a young Lin-Manuel performed with the Hunter College chorus on "CBS This Morning" for Child Hunger Day. He had hoped Lin-Manuel would grow up to become a lawyer, but ever since the infamous "Pushcart War" video - a third-grade book report that also functioned as Lin-Manuel's first feature film (of sorts) - showbiz seemed the only option. The two communicated by letters years before e-mail because, as Luis says, "I have to give notes!"Īlthough encouraging, Luis admits he was the much "more realistic" one between him and his wife, Luz Towns-Miranda. You have to pursue that if you want.' That was very opposite advice from, 'Be a lawyer,' and I'm glad I took it."
It made no sense, but it was what I needed to do.' So you were like, 'It makes no sense to leave your job to be a writer, but I have to tell you to do it. "And, I asked you, 'What should I do? Should I keep teaching or should I just kind of sub and do gigs to pay the rent and really throw myself into writing full time?' And, you wrote me a very thoughtful letter, in which you said, 'I really want to tell you to keep the job - that's the smart 'parent thing' to do - but when I was 17, I was a manager at the Sears in Puerto Rico, and I basically threw it all away to go to New York, I didn't speak a lot of English. After substitute teaching for some time, "Hunter had asked me to stay on to continue to teach part time," Lin-Manuel explains. Producer Kevin McCollum, who brought Miranda's In the Heights to Broadway (along with Jeffrey Seller and Jill Furman, Hamilton's producers), expressed interest in his writing, but Miranda was offered a job teaching English at his high school, Hunter College High School. Lin-Manuel silences his father to speak about the time he felt most encouraged, at a crossroad in his early adulthood.
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