Lin-Manuel Miranda On 'Mary Poppins Returns' And Writing His Way Onstage
Though best known for his auteur work, the mastermind of Hamilton and In the Heights says it was his dream to be offered a part in someone else's musical.
Create and star in a blockbuster hip-hop musical, and you get to do pretty much anything you want. For Lin-Manuel Miranda, the playwright and composer behind Hamilton and In the Heights, that means starring in the sequel to a hallowed Disney classic.
In , Miranda takes on the role of Jack the lamplighter — an apprentice to Bert, the character immortalized by in the original 1964 film. Though he's best known for his auteur work, Miranda says it was his dream to
