Some takeaways from the latest episode of Billy on the Street, featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda:
- Garfield fan art is a thing
- “Hamilton” tickets are still impossible to get
- Some people really don’t enjoy the experience of being accosted with a camera/microphone, even when celebrities are involved
Still, Billy Eichner set out to cheer up New Yorkers, and for the most part, succeeded in his mission.
Oh, and have you heard Miranda is in the new “Marry Poppins”?!
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Wicked Dickie
People do not like to be accosted on the streets by a camera and microphone. Especially by 2 people who think they’re more popular than then think they are.
Bryguyf69
You’re obviously not a New Yorker. We New Yorkers are not as easily offended as you seem to think. While we don’t like to be stopped when we’re in a rush, most don’t mind being stopped for interviews and comedic routines such as this. As for popularity, educate yourself. See my post regarding Lin-Manuel Miranda. In 2016, Time magazine included him among the Top 100 Most Influential People in THE WORLD. And that’s just one of many many accolades including a Pulitzer Prize, a Kennedy Center Honors award, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Smithsonian Ingenuity award and a MacArthur Genius grant.
In other words, don’t extrapolate your ignorance of American culture onto the popularity of others.
Prax07
Who is Lin-Manuel Miranda?
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Tombear
Prax07, you are kidding right? “Who is Lin-Manuel Miranda?” Broadway Showman on many levels. He is responsible for two hit Broadway musicals. Does “Hamilton” ring a bell?
Bryguyf69
Prax07 – Wow, you really are clueless. It doesn’t matter if you like Broadway, rap, etc because he is a cultural phenomenon. His musical, Hamilton, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016 and he was awarded with the Kennedy Center Honors this year. And he’s no uneducated rapper. He went to Hunter College High School, which has the highest average SAT score of any school in the US, and called the best school in America by The Wall Street Journal. The musical, Hamilton, is based on Ron Chernow’s celebrated biography. Miranda has been nominated or won so many awards, Wikipedia has a page just to list them (List of awards and nominations received by Lin-Manuel Miranda). He has already won an Emmy, Grammy and Tony. His performance in Mary Poppins just might get him an Oscar, completing the coveted EGOT. Here’s an excerpt:
“Among his numerous accolades, Miranda has won a Pulitzer Prize, three Tony Awards, three Grammys, an Emmy, two Olivier Awards, and has been nominated for an Academy Award. In 2015, he was the recipient of a “Genius Grant” from the MacArthur Fellows Program.
In 2016, Time magazine included Miranda in its annual Time 100 as one of the “Most Influential People in the World” and he received a star on the Puerto Rico Walk of Fame. It was announced in June 2017 that Miranda would be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2018. Miranda received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 30, 2018.
In 2015, Miranda was the recipient of Smithsonian Magazine’s American Ingenuity Award in the History category.
Miranda is most celebrated for writing the book, music and lyrics for Hamilton: An American Musical, which has been acclaimed as a pop culture phenomenon since its Broadway premiere in August 2015.[4] The show earned the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and was nominated for a record-setting 16 Tony Awards, of which it won 11, including Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Book. For his performance in the lead role of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda was nominated for another Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. The Hamilton cast recording spent ten weeks atop Billboard’s Top Rap Albums chart in 2015, while The Hamilton Mixtape, an album of covers of songs from the musical, developed by and featuring Miranda, reached number one on the Billboard 200 upon release in December 2016.”
Terrycloth
Billy is loud and annoying..and I would have seen Hamilton had it NOT been Rap and hip hop not my thing at all….Billy really thinks he really famous ..he isnt ..
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Prax07
Sorry, no clue about anything/anyone Broadway or theater related. It’s just not an interest of mine so I don’t know anything related there.
Smith David
Ummm..yeah. We’re still going to need the aforementioned card sir. Thank you.
Bryguyf69
Prax07 – and you felt a need to tell us because…? Why would we need to know that you’re clueless?
Prax07
Yeah, you can have my card, don’t need it anyway. The only gay-themed thing I follow is drag race, so don’t need it the other 99.9% of the time.
Karrnal
Billy eichner? What a jerk.
topsyturvy
And has he ever said anything about that weird eye thing he has? I mean he likes to pick-pick-pick at people so I’m just curious why he hasn’t addressed it and made it HIS thing.
Bryguyf69
So proud of Lin-Manuel Miranda. Although we weren’t in the same year, we both went to Hunter College High School, which The Wall Street Journal calls the best high school in America. I believe it has the highest SAT average in America, among other academic accolades. There are lots of distinguished alumni, among them Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. And lots of LGBT alumni, including Cynthia Nixon, Audre Lourde, and some I’m not at liberty to mention. Hunter was/is one of the most progressive and gay-friendly schools in America. I remember seeing gay-inclusive posters in the halls and classrooms, and from what I’ve heard, there’s been gay clubs since the 1970s. Hunter is a great evidence that the more educated and intelligent you are, the more gay-friendly you tend to be.
What I especially like about Miranda and fellow alumnus Robert Lopez is that they broke stereotypes. For those who don’t know, Lopez is the multi-award-winning composer of the Disney musical, Frozen, and the oh-so-annoying hit, Let It Go. In fact, he is one of only 15 people who have won the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony), and the youngest to do so. Hunter is known for academic excellence, especially in science and math (one of my 7th grade classmates took math classes at Columbia University) — but definitely not the Performing Arts (or sports … heck, we’ve never had a football team). So for these two to break out of our nerdy stereotype was quite an achievement — especially Miranda, who chose to rap. And the fact that they’re both Latino and straight just busts the stereotypes even more. Let’s face it: you don’t see too many intelligent, college-educated (Lopez went to Yale!), straight male Latinos in musical theater. So proud of them.