Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Acceptance Speech Rap
16 June 2008, 8:56 AM. By Guanabee Staff
If you haven’t heard, Lin Manuel-Miranda’s “In The Heights” won four Tony awards last night at the 62nd annual celebration, including the coveted Best Musical. In the above video, Lin accepts his first award of the evening and the first Tony of his career for Original Score with–what else?–a rap. It sounds more like slam poetry to us, which we really hate, but we’ll overlook it this time because he threw in some Stephen Sondheim lyrics. Also, bonus points for waving the Puerto Rican flag hankie, Lin.
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I’m not gonna watch this cuz I’ll feel all embarassed for him. In theory an acceptance speech in rap/spoken word sounds good. In Theory.
Anyway, I’m happy for dude. Was there a fight scene/dance off between people who prefer colmados vs. bodegas?
i actually liked his speech a lot . . . it was smart. I won’t say what I thought about the rest of the show, but the title of my blog post about it incorporates the words “big,” “fucking,” and “fiasco.”
Love it, love it! He is my new crush! That was awesome!
Wow. I’m glad I’m easily influenced by blogs otherwise I wouldn’t have watched this. (shoutout to Missinfo.tv)
That was an awesome thank you speech!!! ( Will.I.Am. shame on you!!!! You know what you did at the Grammys.. or was it The Oscars?) Whatever.
Nice one Lin!!! I was so mad when I turned on late night TV a few weeks ago and saw how other plays were getting props on some rinky-dink shows; and Lin’s “Height’s” was not even mentioned. Some corny gringa producer prolly thot her audience couldn’t relate. WHAT!? You gonna mention South Pacific and Boeing Boenig and not a word about Lin’s 13 nominations? Fuck outta here…
@cacy: In my expereince, only old-school Dominicans and Puerto Ricans refer to grocery stores as “colmados”. The really hard core old-schoolers prefer “pulperia”. Bodega is an American thing.
Did any of you guys catch the NY1 Tony awards roundtable a few weeks ago where the fresh faced, prepubescent looking theatre critic from New York magazine kept dismissing the show and calling it “the hip-hop musical” and throwing out some buzzwords about “diversity”? Good lord that boy was annoying.
Diablo Cacy, in “theory” people who critize shit usually do so after experiencing something or trying something out, how can you be embarrassed for someone who obviously is doing something right if he just won an award for “Best Score” what kinds of awards have you won? Has anything you created been recognized by anything besides your friends and family. This guy is getting recognition who actually know about music, so stick to pictures or whatever it is you do, because talking about music or theatre honey, you dont know shit!
why would there be a dance off or a fight over what to call a corner store….I am embarressed for your friends and family because your a dumb ass ingoramous!
Washington Heights and Inwood are pulsating with excitment for him and everyone involved with In The Heights because they broke the sterotypes and all Latin people should be proud of that, even if they dont like the show.
Cacy, I`m sorry I forgot, felicidades por tu mojon award, which means congratulations for your SHIT AWARD. I hope you have a great, night full of SHIT.
Felicidades to Lin-Manuel for not giving up on his dreams and for taking Latinos to the next level!
We are proud of you…
As I am,
The Urban Jibaro
http://www.SofritoForYourSoul.com
Which level of hell is that, Urban Jibaro? It’s a fucking musical!
Seriously, I am not proud of the dude (because he is not my son, nor is he a family member), but I am happy for him even if I have absolutely no interest in his play because, well, it’s a musical, singing and dancing in front of the colmado/pulperia/bodega/corner store. I keep seeing the Jets and the Sharks, and I can’t stand WEST SIDE STORY!
I’m not sure how the winning of some Tony awards is going to raise the Latino/Hispanic people into a goldplated heaven on earth, but I guess we’ll have to take what we can get. Still, inchmeal progression is better than no progression at all. I’m waiting for that day when an American-born Latino wins the Nobel Prize, or is deemed a public intellectual, or is a genuine and deserving powerhouse in a creatively-challenging field (take film for example, where people might refer to a film as “Altmanesque” or “Scorcese-like” . . . I want to see Latinos reaping the selfsame respect)
This musical is totally oppoisite of West Side Story. Someone has been sipping on some haterade, must be one of the theatres janitors, upset cause one of the actors wouldnt date him.