Monday, March 5: To coincide with the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Lexus Broadway Series’ “In the Heights” (March 13 – 25), those smart folks at the Nasher have arranged to have “In the Heights” co-creator Lin-Manuel Miranda as the guest for the first NasherSalon of 2012.
If his name isn’t as familiar as Stephen Sondheim or Kristin Chenoweth, you have been absent from Broadway 101 classes. The Puerto Rican-American composer, rapper, lyricist and actor was “an instant sensation for writing and starring in the four-time Tony Award-winning musical.
That isn’t enough. My, but you’re demanding!
“As an actor, Lin-Manuel received a 2007 Theater World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance, and the 2007 Clarence Derwent Award for Most Promising Male Performance courtesy of Actor’s Equity Foundation. He has also performed for President Obama and the First Family at the White House for its first-ever Poetry Jam. Additionally, his TV and film credits include The Electric Company, Sesame Street, The Sopranos, House, Modern Family, The Sex and the City Movie, and the upcoming The Odd Life of Timothy Green.”
The timing could not be more perfect. After a full weekend of celebrating the opening of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, it will be nice to be indoors for an intimate chat.
Tickets are available starting Monday, February 6.
Photo provided by Nasher Sculpture Center