Lin Manuel Miranda Makes His Les Mis Debut

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 1/27/16 at 9:05pm

As if you can't love him anymore...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpUJYCTUIMg&feature=youtu.be

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 1/27/16 at 9:11pm

OMG deliciousness!!!

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 1/27/16 at 9:32pm

I love this. Is that how it normally works every show? They sing from offstage?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/27/16 at 10:12pm

This is really cute. And yes.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 1/27/16 at 10:17pm

I love that more than I thought I could.  

[Phantom4ever]

Posted: 1/27/16 at 10:39pm

Anybody think they would have noticed his voice if they were in the audience and had no idea he was there?  Would you be like "Usnavi? Alexander?"  I think I would recognize him especially because it does sound so different from the regular voice   

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/27/16 at 10:50pm

Maybe. And he was on the insert. https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status/692482729779265536/photo/1

[starcatchers]

Posted: 1/27/16 at 11:09pm

He was on the insert. However, they do use a bit of a distortion for that bit, so I have no idea how it would sound from the front. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 1/27/16 at 11:11pm

Was he paid for doing that part? 

[mariel9]

Posted: 1/27/16 at 11:47pm

A huge part of his appeal is that he has no chill, no cool, no irony. He is just purely, unabashedly enthusiastic about the things he loves. It's wonderful.

[Phantom4ever]

Posted: 1/28/16 at 12:22am

I know he was on the insert, thus my "had no idea he was there" qualifier. I suppose I could have been more clear and said "if he was not on the insert". 

[sorano916]

Posted: 1/28/16 at 2:03am

Aww... he wasn't on my cast insert from Sunday night. I still had J. Michael Finley, the regular Loud Hailer, listed. 

 

It was my first time seeing the show with Finley in that track/role. However, when the Loud Hailer came on, I was thinking to myself that it sounded off. Like, Finley is a ValJean understudy so I was expecting a deep, more classical sound like Aaron Walpole who was the Loud Hailer previously. Lin's not that. LOL.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 1/28/16 at 2:05am

sorano916 said: "Aww... he wasn't on my cast insert from Sunday night. I still had J. Michael Finley, the regular Loud Hailer, listed."

 

That's too bad, sounds like it would have been a fun souvenir.

[Fan123]

Posted: 1/28/16 at 6:07am

How fun! Although I doubt Lin would replicate something like this in another show, or make it obvious/intrusive if he did, it's amusing to imagine that he could now pop up anywhere in any Broadway show at any time. Just imagine that voice coming through to an unsuspecting audience in the middle of Phantom - "Christine Daae has returned to you..." And we need a meme in which Lin's picture is shoehorned into key scenes from all kinds of shows.

[JM226]

Posted: 1/28/16 at 8:32am

Call_me_jorge said: "Was he paid for doing that part? 

 

"

absolutely not. 

[sorano916]

Posted: 1/28/16 at 1:18pm

gypsy101 said: "sorano916 said: "Aww... he wasn't on my cast insert from Sunday night. I still had J. Michael Finley, the regular Loud Hailer, listed."

 

 That's too bad, sounds like it would have been a fun souvenir."

 

Actually, judging by other responses from Twitter, it seems like he wasn't on the cast insert in most of the Playbills. Maybe they made just a couple for Lin to have. I mean, if it was on the cast insert, I'm sure someone would've have noticed otherwise.

[Wee Thomas2]

Posted: 2/1/16 at 12:08pm

JM226 said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Was he paid for doing that part? 

 

 "

 

absolutely not. 

"

He was paid scale.  And donated it to the Revolutionaries.