November 26, 2016
IT'S MIRANDA'S AMERICA:
'Moana' was Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Hamilton' break, says Tony Award-winning composer (Mike Cidoni Lennox, 11/26/16, Associated Press)
Miranda is following up his Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit by contributing seven original songs for "Moana," which is now in theaters. The writer-composer-actor was hired for the film before "Hamilton" hit and said working on "Moana" proved a respite from the Broadway frenzy."When I got sick of doing American history research, I'd go sail across the water with Maui and Moana," Miranda, 36, said in a recent interview. "And once the (stage) show was written and it was up and running, ['Moana'] was my oasis of calm in the 'Hamilton' phenomenon.""Moana" tells the story of a teenager who is drawn to the open ocean despite her father's admonition that no one from their island village venture beyond the reef.
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 26, 2016 8:26 AM