Tony's songwriter and award-winner, Lin-Manuel Miranda, indeed, Really I wanted to appear in the recent "wicked" adaptation of Jonon M. Hu - but I bet I will never guess which role he was breaking.

During a time The "Late Show with Steven Colbert" in February 2025Miranda, the man behind Broadway hits like "Hamilton" and huge cinematic songs like "We are not talking about Bruno" by Enkanto, revealed that he basically begged him for a specific and incredibly small role in the adaptation of Steven Schwarz and the more recent music music. to Winnie Holzmann. "In the initial number of the show, this one Muncin expires and goes:" Is it true that you were her friend? "", Miranda told Colbert. "Because, man, I don't know if you've seen live production of" wicked ", but sometimes they really put a little sauce on the ball when they deliver that line. That's where the story begins. So I was like," I really wanted to make that line, Jonon. "

After admitting that his casting would be "dragged" (which is probably an underestimation), Miranda merciful praised Kirsty Ann Show, which is deserved as "skeptical Muncin" and delivers the Glinda Witch line, played by nominated Oscar Ariana Grande -Buther. "And the young woman who does it in the film is great," Miranda said. "She's doing it very seriously - I would make a lot of Regina George," Medium Girls ", like" Is it true that you were her friend!? "Don't make the cut! "So wait - why did Miranda feel bold enough to ask Hu about this role?

Similar to Glinda the good witch and Elfaba Trap (Cynthia Erivo), the "wicked" wicked witch in the West, Lynn-Manuel Miranda and Jonon M. Hu friends (though, unlike Glinda and Elfaba, it's no secret). Hu, who is also known for his blockbuster adaptation of the hit novel "Crazy Boy Asians", directed "in height" in 2021, bringing Miranda's first award -winning musical to the big screen. Although the announcement of "in heights" was undoubtedly affected by the Kovid-19-19-year-old pandemic that basically ensured that it did not click in the box office- Hu doing a phenomenal work adapting this joyful, dense musicalAnd although he later told Miranda that he could not be in "wicked", he let Miranda's allowed to play a small role in the movie Music he wrote.

With Anthony Ramos (an original member of Broadway Hamilton) in the lead role of reports, which comes from Miranda himself on stage, Huz recreates the story ... and descends through the film, Miranda appears as a pirago at Washington Hitses ( Piragüeros Sell ​​shaved frost desserts) that lose business to other vendors, such as trucks on G -Din Softee. (He even gets a small song, "Piragua. .

Let's go back to Hamilton for a second, because it's probably where you've seen Lynn-Manuel Miranda before. After winning Tony for Best Musical in 2008 (among many, many other awards), Miranda appeared in the White House under President Barack Obama for "Night of Poetry, Music and Speech Word" in May 2009 and performed rap -The song for ... Based father Alexander Hamilton. Although the audience was choking when she announced the performance, people stopped laughing pretty fast After he started singing, that number became Hamilton's initial and title. The rest is history; "Hamilton" Also He won Tony for the best musical (in 2016) and became one of the largest cultural sensations of her era. (Whether it's old or not, and the political climate has changed is definitely debatable, but I'm not afraid to admit that songs are Total fever.)

Since then, Miranda has written huge songs about films such as "Moana" (he wrote "How far I will go"), "Encanto" (including the aforementioned massive hit "We're not talking about Bruno") and live -action remake of " The little mermaid "and the foretold" Mufasa: the king of the lion ". He also appeared alongside Emily Blunt in the movie Meri Poppins is back "in 2018 And directed the adaptation of the "renting" of Athonatan Larson, "Rent", Tik, tick ... Boom! "In 2021, which plays Andrew Garfield as the late writer. A professionally recorded version of Hamilton is available for Disney+, "At the heights" is available to be transferred to Max, and "Tic, tick ... Boom!" Is on Netflix - if you need to level the body of Miranda's work.