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‘Mufasa’ Songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda On Working With “Great Storyteller” Barry Jenkins & Why The ‘Hamilton’ Parallel Is A Myth
‘Mufasa’ songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda interview: working with "great storyteller" Barry Jenkins & why EGOT isn't everything
The original 1994 animated movie featured songs written by Tim Rice and Sir Elton John, which seemed impossibly big shoes for Miranda to fill. He was working on his first debut directorial feature Tick, Tick… Boom!, doing press for Netflix’s Vivo and Jon M. Chu’s film adaptation of his breakout musical In The Heights, and had just finished writing the Billboard #1 soundtrack for Disney’s animation hit Encanto. He is starting 2025 off on stage again with a turn in All In —a series of comedy short stories written by SNL writer Simon Rich, featuring a rotating ensemble cast that includes John Mulaney, Jimmy Fallon, Richard Kind, Aidy Bryant, and Miranda’s Hamilton co-stars Renée Elise Goldsberry and Andrew Rannells.
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