Posted: 7/11/16 at 9:26pm
He's the star now. We used to have "love threads" all the time around here, and I think this guy deserves one.
And this article in today's New York Times paints a portrait of a remarkable human being. Who has seen him already? I want to get another set of tickets now, because I want to see him play the role.
Mr. Muñoz brings his own life experience to the role. The son of a doorman, he grew up in a housing project — the Linden Houses, in East New York, Brooklyn, which he recalls as scarily violent and dangerous. “I can’t lie — I’m still afraid of it,” he says. “It was so much fear growing up there.”
He is 40, openly gay, H.I.V. positive and a cancer survivor — he had surgery and radiation last fall, missing weeks of performances in “Hamilton,” but has been back in the cast for months. He said he feels strong — the virus is undetectable, the cancer screenings negative — and is raring to go. “I had my first follow-up in March, and all green lights,” he said. “I’m good.”
NEW YORK TIMES: A Word With: Javier Muñoz, the New Hamilton on Broadway
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/theater/a-word-with-javier-munoz-the-new-hamilton-on-broadway.html?_r=0
He seems like such a sweetheart, and as much as I adore Lin and am bummed I didn't get to see him as Hamilton, I am really VERY excited at the prospect of Javi being my first Ham 
