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Jonathan David Larson was an American composer, lyricist and playwright most famous for writing the musicals Rent and Tick, Tick... Boom!, which explored the social issues of multiculturalism, substance use disorder, and homophobia.

Hamilton Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda remembers a childhood tragedy

May 5,2024 4:23 pm

Lin-Manuel Miranda played the title role in the early productions of Hamilton

Hamilton Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has spoken of the death has been marked by his childhood Best Friend , his plays and his view on life.

The actor, writer and composer, told made BBC Radio 4 's Desert Island Discs, The Tragedy in the kindergarten that he is "very aware" of the specter of death.

Miranda, 39, said his girlfriend accidentally drowned, made him "aware of the Ticking Clock before."

He added: "And I think I'm drawn to characters who are very aware of. "

Miranda shot to fame in the year 2015, when Hamilton was smash, a Broadway. The Show uses hip-to tell hop, the story of Alexander Hamilton , one of the founding fathers of the United States , died in a duel in 1804.

The character rape in The Show : "I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory/when is it gonna get me?"

Desert Island Discs host Lauren Laverne asked whether his idols - such as Hamilton, Rent writer Jonathan Larson , died at the age of 35 years, and late in the cabaret-choreographer and Director Bob Fosse were connected, because their stories, the Ticking Clock will contain all"".

'Six months of Grey '

Miranda answered: "I think they are marked day by your consciousness and how much you leave it on your day-to -.

"is a part of the Growing Up in New York . You are somehow always a little on guard. And I have also experienced death at a young age. "

the Talk about the death of his kindergarten friend, he said: "It is one of those terrible stories where everyone is of the thought of the parents she was with Someone Else , and they drowned in The Lake behind your house.

"I have this memory of the nursery just six months of Grey from My Friend to go who is used to this class. And I remember The Morning My Mother told me. If this hits you early, you are aware of the Ticking Clock used to be. "

Miranda's career has also roles in Mary Poppins , and the forthcoming BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman 's His Dark Materials. He is also currently a film adaptation of his first Broadway musical In The Heights.

Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 at 11:15 BST on Sunday, and then.

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Source of news: bbc.com

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