Backstage at "In The Heights" with Lin-Manuel Miranda

Backstage at "In The Heights" with Lin-Manuel Miranda

[@chelsea342]

"I'm a grown up so I'm allowed..." *2 seconds later* "I actually knocked the light fixtures off these bulbs... with my head"

[@rowan1150]

Yeah he isn't a grown up he's scretly younger than Sebastian

[@LaraTang]

Little cinnamon roll!

[@edgyidiot2447]

Chelsea i do that kind of shit all the time lol

[@skyesthelimit6251]

Derpy Nuggets same though I bang my head on things and u ran into a fire hydrant once

[@matthewfuerst6456]

“I’m really good at the claw machine at Dave and Busters”

[@Maybethistime15]

Lin: it only distributes 10 dollar bills Comment section: Explodes

[@theorichards9463]

Sasha Carrillo more like, *sh-BOOM!* I'm sorry, too many puns.

[@joydoodles9409]

Sasha Carrillo you mean comments: CLICK BOOM

[@beth2781]

Sasha Carrillo CLICK BOOM THAT IT HAPPENED

[@taylorbeth7714]

I DIDN'T KNOW I NEEDED THIS UNTIL IT HAPPENED!!!!

[@marissaashleyy]

I was just about to say that

[@justinedenicola5564]

"I'm an adult" 3 seconds later "I actually broke this light with my head!"

[@Polopony20.]

Me: "sure.. believe that Lin...While the rest of the world knows you are a 5 year old."

[@GraceSolar]

Justine DeNicola MEEEE

[@melaniegarcia3158]

Kevin, watch the light dude.

[@Ghostinaboat]

XD 6 years later nothing changed

[@katherineknapp6604]

😂

[@Annie-pz5cr]

"Hi. I made that." LIN MY CHILD

[@ok-sf7br]

mY LINNAMON ROLL

[@demented2935]

LOOK AT MY SON

[@katherineknapp6604]

😊

[@aggie5668]

*T H E R E I S S O M U C H M O R E I N S I D E M E N O W*

[@robloxedits1191]

Ohhhh LIN YOU OUTSHINE THE MORNING SUN​@@aggie5668

[@LPSdrewxellyvideos]

Lin: it only distributes ten dollar bills Me: *starts hyperventilating* THE TEN DOLLAR FOUNDING FATHER WITHOUT A FATHER

[@ceceamory7643]

+Lucy O'Brien IF THIS ISN'T ME

[@alisondecker8115]

SAME

[@ilitm4]

As soon as he said that I looked at the comments to make sure I wasn't hallucinating and someone else caught that as well! :) :)

[@sydnem123456]

Im not even kidding it was a foreshadowing we just realized now

[@annafehder5360]

So did I lol

[@jilliancurrier136]

"Hi. I wrote that." what did we do to deserve him

[@jilliancurrier136]

AH I MESSED UP FRICK

[@gabriellamorales3155]

WE DONT DESERVE HIM

[@ivysaurus]

That line killed me xD

[@moniquemorice833]

Camellia Brinbrook OH MY GOD

[@beth2781]

xx 4242 Sebastian: *points to Chuggington playing on tv* Hi. This is all i watch.

[@emma-dg4gq]

7:50 "It only distributes 10 dollar bills." forE SHADOWING

[@emma-dg4gq]

just realized that I'm not so creative and everyone already commented this oh well

[@plop4520]

yas, SAAMMEEE! XDD I scrolled down the comment section just to see if anyone else noticed this too XDDD

[@melaniegarcia3158]

😂😂😂😂

[@aaaaaaa-vm1oi]

*_*LÉ GASP_**

[@rhiannonkatherine6681]

"without feeling like fatsnavi"

[@lexxierowell]

"im a grown-up" "i knocked the light fixtures off with my head"

[@childofthemoss]

1:29 /Lin screeches/ Me: wow that's an impressive range.

[@gabriellamorales3155]

THANK YOU

[@marilyndotson872]

Katrina Jade omg

[@roxys8797]

But strangely your mange is the same

[@chrissies5442]

i cant even hit that high tbh

[@snazztasticeagle8952]

"I'm an adult so I'm allowed" xD sure Lin, sure

[@mmtittle]

Ha ha. Lin, an adult? You're not an adult. He's my little baby. Wait… what do you mean he's 36? No he's my baby. But also my father. That's were things get complicated…

[@none4530]

+Molly Tittle Hey, I don't want to be 'that person' but Lin has expressed that he's very uncomfortable with people referring to him as their dad or son. In the future I'd refrain from doing that just out of consideration for him :)

[@Ghostinaboat]

3 years later Nothing changed

[@andioop1618]

Lin: It only dispenses $10 bills Comment section: IT'S A PAST SIGN FOR LINNNAMON ROLL

[@bfallon7076]

THATS MA USERNAME

[@cami1870]

Cleo De Nile linnnamon roll greatest idea since thr caveman banged two rocks together

[@yaboiuhskinnypenis4175]

Kate S. He said "this is our atm machine and we like to think that it only distributes 10$ bills"

[@zanebrolin4817]

"i got some bananas here that are rapidly ripening." and that, my friends, is why Lin-Manuel Miranda is a hip-hop lyricist

[@Dancing4Life24]

Lin:"only distributes 10 dollar bills" Me: THE 10 DOLLAR FOUNDING FATHER

[@ampae2249]

Without a father

[@zahraaliasad4618]

+Peige Keisper got a lot farther by working a lot harder

[@ampae2249]

+Zahra Asad by being a lot smarter by being a self starter

[@Dancing4Life24]

and every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted away across the waves he struggled and kept his guard up

[@ThatHollyPerson]

But a hurricane came and devastation rained out man saw his future drip dripping down the drain put a pencil to temple connected to his brain and he wrote his first refrain a testament to his pain

[@lyngreenhorse]

everyone talking about the $10 dollar but like he was in his room talking about food for two-three minutes this is our son right here

[@lyngreenhorse]

I also love when he said when you think we are staring up to the heavens we are actually staring at the lava lamp XD

[@mlrafiki]

Lyn The Horse Right? I love how focused he was on food.

[@shshshdixhekddh7408]

Lyn Green Horse look at my son

[@lilly-b874]

That's why lin is my spirit animal..

[@aaaaaaa-vm1oi]

_"LOOK AT MY SON-"_

[@eclipsed_love1013]

'this mirror... I think... it makes me look fat. '

[@kateh5446]

Eclipsed_Love 101 I died

[@lilly-b874]

PROTECT HIM

[@yeng1855]

Right before I heard him say it in the video!Lol

[@alexanderhamilton6249]

😂😂

[@OrigamiMarie]

He's a little bit vain, but in the sweetest way.

[@seren8888]

Lin: 2011: "I made that." 2016 at the White House: "I made that." 😂😂

[@kianablader9624]

Two things; writing musicals... and the claw machine at Dave and Busters XD

[@olivesings1391]

Panic! At the Twenty Øne Crybaby Hamiltrash I can confirm

[@btoal2001]

Lin is so proud of his claw skills. He literally brings it up every interview he gets asked about his talents. It's so typical Lin I think. No one else would share that or even think to bring it up, but he's just got such a wonderful childlike heart that it makes so much sense that first, he would be good at a claw machine and second, he would brag about it. This man is a treasure

[@moxieswamp9689]

the most important and useful skills in the world

[@emmadamico3753]

"I'm really good at two things... writing musicals and the claw machine at Dave and Buster's,,,,,, and I'm REALLY good at the claw game"

[@rainbowpanic5632]

And now there's a video of him on Ellen using a huge claw machine and winning each time XD

[@avacado9046]

@@rainbowpanic5632 Is there?

[@graciebyler9447]

Lin: Here are my props, but I'm not gonna touch them cause I don't wanna mess them up Lin 3 seconds later: Hold on let me take out this prop so you can see it

[@jadaharrison5396]

Gracie Byler I was thinking the same thing!! 😂

[@kisari-arts]

I read this the exact time he said it X).

[@avacado9046]

Similar energy to: 'I probably shouldn't brag but dang I amaze and astonish.' lmao XD

[@elliebee9742]

"Ya know Luna Bars, for ladies....guys can have em too"

[@frozenhag8737]

Elliebee me @skirts n dresses

[@hanapipan2530]

How Lin presented Sebastian to his friends: Lin: Hi! I made that. *points at Sebastian*

[@BetteDavis19]

OH MY GOD

[@m0_0nturtle]

also: alexander hamilton in dear theodosia/take a break

[@niyah_cool_365]

BAHAHA

[@laurenredding1419]

I can't pick a favorite quote to put in the comments. Why does Lin look like he is nine years old in this my life is so good

[@annamurphy709]

Lin is 9 years old I don't know what you're talking about?

[@none4530]

Yeah where'd you hear that he's any older than 9??

[@mitch464]

hes a grown up so hes allowed

[@kennchristopher2865]

2 seconds later "I actually knocked the light fixtures off these bulbs... with my head"

[@jesse-1155]

MY FAV IS FATNSAVI

[@addyyrose732]

"It only deposits 10 dollar bills" ITS DESTINY!

[@cr0wtherr]

Addyyrose lmao it was a 20 dollar bill just lonely in there

[@ItsNotSarahh]

Everyone is talking about the 10$ atm machine but I'm still screaming over lin's adorable screeching

[@roryquinn8257]

Sarah Says Rawr he reminds me of Tyler Joseph in this video. adorable and funny

[@saturn3455]

Sunshine-scribble omg hey! |-/

[@humnahwasi7837]

That screeching noise he made.."the vocal warmup"...😂

[@erickadale75]

Humnah Wasi it reminded me of when Lin and groffsause were having sinus issues.

[@MariaPetete]

It's incredible how quotable he is in an interview. Just an interview! There's a good reason he's so successful.

[@lexxierowell]

"we got kotex, for the ladies" he was so not awkward when he said that like he doesn't deny that we bleed once a month

[@lulusp1023]

He is perfecto

[@echfx9201]

MAKE IT RAIN T A M P O N S

[@Weeewooooooooo]

He said it in such a charming way some how 💀

[@imkelolove2140]

HI I MADE THAT😂😂😂 Me if I ever make a musical

[@sersvati]

Me a few years ago: I'm never getting Me now: I'm getting married if I can find anyone who is anything like Lin

[@crlnat4334]

Lin: I don't care what the president says, it's pronounced nuclear XD Me: whatever you say Lin

[@ursulajoni15]

it actually is pronounced the way he pronounced it, NU-clee-er because of the Nu-clee-us

[@ChillyCucumber]

@@ursulajoni15 I tHiNk YoU mEaN tHe NuCuLus.

[@sarahelyse8325]

THE $10 BILLS

[@That_Ozian]

TEN DOLLAR FOUNDING FATHER

[@christianwritesmusic]

*HEAVY BREATHING

[@sophovot5079]

+Sarah Richman where is that, i must have missed it :o

[@sarahelyse8325]

+Sophovot 7:50

[@sophovot5079]

Sarah Richman thank you!

[@AngelaDeptulaSS]

"hi, i made that..." 😂😂😂

[@kateshanaman3108]

"hi! i made that!" dammit lin

[@giogarcia440]

This is how I wanna be like when I'm an adult

[@elinor9276]

Can someone make Lin react to this please

[@kathrynhamel6465]

elinor YES

[@theaw2852]

Just the ten dollars made me cry because Hamilton of course

[@ampae2249]

Same

[@stormrider7235]

"I'm only good at two things: writing musicals and the claw machine at Dave N Busters".....what did we do to deserve him?!??!

[@madelinecrandall2883]

Lin: It only dispenses 10 dollars Some daveed diggs from 2007:its a sign Lin

[@lucameyers13]

**sad backstory about grandpa** "and i also have some bananas ripening,"

[@fillyreports]

HE'S PERFECT AND I LOVE HIM

[@chrissies5442]

i mean who doesn't

[@stellatemplin1301]

"It's wonderful to see them everyday IN OUR HALLWAY" Oh Lin.

[@birdlawco]

"We've got Kotex for the ladies" WELL HOW THOUGHTFUL OF YOU

[@francescademarneffe5900]

oh my god he is absolutely adorable

[@yourmomtez]

lin "i have no voice right now" *my abuela running in* GET THE EGGS

[@BetteDavis19]

yo eggs help your voice? gimme the recipe !!

[@Mason-vf6bz]

He is so adorable

[@lucymartin9736]

ONLY DISTRIBUTES TEN DOLLAR BILLS

[@XxSharmsxX]

I was just about to comment that thinking people wouldn't catch it. but omg the foreshadowing

[@ampae2249]

+Sharms people wouldn't get that? HA lol

[@bondfool]

Ha ha, Hamilton makes a cameo!

[@nabryiamayfield6127]

Derek Martz lol it was a 20

[@zai9407]

This is 5 years later but........:Lin: "We've got Kotex for the ladies"Me: *dies* XD

[@autumn7809]

Well, he is reLIABLE WITH THE LADIES

[@halliefritsch]

+A Byars THERE ARE SO MANY TO DEFLOWER

[@autumn7809]

+Hallie Fritsch LOOKS, PROXIMITY TO POWER

[@zai9407]

+A Byars LADIES!!!

[@miaavila7121]

AND MARTHa waSHINGTON NAmed HER FERAL tOM CAt AFter HIM

[@niftythegoblin]

Lin: **looks nine years old** Lin: **shows a cabinet filled with gold fish crackers, chocolate, etc** Lin: "I broke that light with my head" Lin: "These aren't childhood toys or anything, I'm just really good at the claw machine at Dave and Busters." Lin: "I have my ps2 hooked up to my tv." ALSO Lin: "But I'm an adult, so it's okay." Me: "'Adult', suuuuuuuuuurrreeeeeee"

[@allencitoowo4682]

Lin is our baby

[@emilyindri1836]

"It only dispenses $10 bills" Me: JUST YOU WAIIIIIIIIIIIT *dies* Edit: 4 months later I realize that's not even a fucking 10 dollar bill it's a 20 -_- Lin why

[@oliviab4793]

SO TRUE

[@Weeewooooooooo]

2:30 he talked about snacks for a minute straight he's so cute oh my gosh 💀

[@eryn5638]

lin is a kid at heart

[@hena1937]

So, he was already writing Hamilton at this time. I wonder if he had written "the $10 founding father who got a lot farther working a lot harder by being a self starter". I may have got those in the wrong order. I just gotta wonder if that went through his mind around that ATM.

[@marilyndotson872]

hena1937 yeyeyseys true

[@dysphoric_dinosaur3147]

Lin: " *heartfelt talk about his grandfather passing* " Also Lin: "These are bananas."

[@rayannhaywood5869]

"I have bananas here that are rapidly ripening"

[@sushiredfang6190]

almost sounds like rapping😂

[@z.aphir.]

Hell, saying his whole name is a rap.

[@kateh5446]

Zaphir Adams TRUE! I Love him so much tho

[@miss.brun0]

you do rapid mathematics automatically practically everybody's stressed xD

[@LaraTang]

hOW DOEs HE EveN tHinK OF StUff To SaY liKE THAT

[@lilykate7077]

"Hi, I made that" 8 seconds in and I'm already crying

[@rileymaguire2972]

My favorite is Lin: you know those Luna bars that are for ladies, guys can eat em to Me: dies

[@rowanahedley9578]

I don't think I've seen someone talk about how this is the same place, theater, dressing rooms, seating and stage that Hamilton's on! It's crazy. Through the whole tour I was pausing and picturing the Hamilton set in place. Amazing

[@jlmeyer5]

When Lin opens the cabinet I thought he would say it is full of THROAT COAT 😉😉😉😂😂😂

[@marcelaencrisis1741]

Me too OMG

[@CarlieMae]

I'm in a production of beauty and the beast and in my dressing room that I share with 5 other girls we have 6 bottles of different types of throat coat and cough drops and tea.

[@Hamiltons_in_the_Heights]

Lin: *talks about deceased father* Also Lin: *quickly changes subject to* “rapidly ripening bananas”

[@nebelparder9]

Also there is a cut in the video right after, so I really felt the sadness leaking out...

[@mdotschrody]

obligatory fan-girling over the ten dollar bill

[@meggz35]

He is honestly perfect in every way. I couldn't stop smiling while watching this.

[@claudiaciempka8781]

7:51 of course it only distributes $10 bills, it tell the future because Alexander Hamilton is on the $10 bill

[@fieryrainysky]

I love how everyone is flipping out over the $10 thing, But no one is saying anything about the $20 that was actually in there,lol.

[@angelicas152]

I know

[@ria-hu7cy]

Yeah I was like a Hamilton fan enough to realise that that’s not Hamilton

[@elizabethsimon2855]

$10 bills??? Seeing the future???? LIN DID YOU KNOW

[@nikkihart3337]

ALEXANDER DID YOU KNOW?

[@diegoberrocal8500]

+Nikki Hart I DIED. OMG PHILLIP! T__________T

[@boltonh1699]

To be fair, In The Heights was still running as he was first starting to write Hamilton the Musical.

[@popofpink11]

He was writing Hamilton for 6 years before it debuted and it debuted in 2015 so then he would have started it in 2009, so it's likely he was already working on it!

[@LollipopDoesGaming]

Nikki Hart mOM IM SO SORRY FOR FORGETTING WHAT YOU TAUGHT ME

[@LipglossAndLove13]

He talked about his food for quite a while, LOL

[@Elanel]

"Very sleepy tour" And I'm watching it before bed, lol. It's comforting.

[@explosivecookiez5305]

"I'm really good at two things: writing musicals, and the claw machine at Dave & Buster's" _-Lin-Manuel Miranda, 2011_

[@hamilfever6610]

Wow he has spent a chunk of his life in this theater giving some awesome amazing performances as Usnavi and Hamilton. Love Lin to death!

[@luckyslob3359]

"I'm not gonna touch them" Literally puts his hands all over one of them.

[@Jalyncarson]

"But don't film me through that mirror...I LOOK HIDEOUS." Me: Lin babeh you look beautiful! I'm pretty sure Groff agrees ;)

[@tinka9747]

this whole video is a gift. Eleven minutes of non-stop Lin Manuel Miranda? Yes please

[@katbert7913]

"I've got my props set up here, I'm not gonna touch them," He says before touching all of them.

[@musicmonkey7992]

1, Lin is amazing I love him he is beautiful 2, HE LOOKS SO YOUNG!!!!

[@valenciawallace1726]

How could you not love this guy... adorable & talented! Mr. Hamilton brought me here😍😇🙏🏽

[@Weeewooooooooo]

1:22 "we're all tired just woke up" proceeds to make pterodactyl like screeches

[@Koribaby1]

He's adorable. "This is my gift to the rest of the cast: my own bathroom." And him talking about being good at two things: writing musicals and the claw machine at Dave & Busters. xD! "It's not for kids; but I'm an adult so I'm allowed." ARE YOU SURE?! xD! The level of detail really is astounding. The headline on the newspaper, even!

[@j27044]

I need a Lin-Manuel maranda in my life

[@mollym5965]

Omg Jlo pic, $10 bills, lottery...Lin's future all in one video

[@marcyfarts]

This makes Lin so much more relatable

[@meganclarke2417]

*look at my son, pride is not the word i'm looking for..........look at where you are, look at where you started....*

[@alatuzn]

Lin: *breathes* All his fans: *S C R E A M S*

[@alexandraocchiuto4959]

Sillyshadoow because literally *everything* he does is so adorable (even though I’m a teenager and he’s in his mid-late thirties it doesn’t matter)

[@rachelcarmel9095]

Yeah he does that to us

[@firstnameisthename1552]

When lins voice can go higher than yours

[@BugsBunnyyyyyyy]

oh my gawd i love him

[@emilie8151]

Don’t we all?!??

[@chrissies5442]

"HI I MADE THAT" *me teaching my kids who Lin is in the year 2050* and that my dear children is pure PERFECTION

[@jennwigwe4001]

I watched this with KZbin's auto generated English captions and it caught Lin's name as Lemon Well Miranda 😂😂

[@GraceSolar]

"I'm a grown up" "I knocked this light fixture off with my head" ME

[@isabellanebs22]

"hi. I made that." I am in LOVE with this man

[@DragonPrincessAoife]

So many moments in this made me laugh so hard! "Hi! I made that!" "This mirror I think makes me look fat....." "I'm really good at two things, writing music and the claw machine at 'Dave and Busters.'" And his little songs that he sings as he goes from one segment to another. I also love that he still rocks the PS2! This is such a beautifully entertaining I really enjoy Lin. He is fucking FUNNY!

[@michellelelliott10]

1:28 IMSCREAMINGTHATWASREALLYCUTE WHERE CAN I BUY A LIN

[@smurfgod7391]

Maybe Michelle I got one at Walmart

[@Michael-kg4wp]

Maybe Michelle I was about on the floor trying not to spit water out on that part and that second screech got me to much lol

[@Mushroom1512]

You can get a cheap Lin from Walmart for five dollars or u can go to the Apple Store and get a thousand dollar Lin

[@hihello211]

Keep clicking this after the first one and watch his eye brows

[@salmanderrr]

I got one off Amazon

[@kateh5446]

"Hi! I wrote that!"-Lin😂 love u sooooooo much

[@lexi-fs7ih]

I'm an adult.. *5 seconds later* I knocked this light bulb out with my head

[@elizakeating8415]

As a huge Hamilton fan, but living in London, my family has tickets to the new West End production of this and i am. SO. EXCITED. (I mean, it's not Hamilton, and there's no LMM but like, it's probably the closest I'm ever gonna get :p )

[@elizakeating8415]

Well tbh brits don't really have actual opinions on the revolution (like, do y'all think we're all grumpy that u guys are Free or something 'cause seriously we don't give a shit) but I guess I did have a different experience of Hamilton to what Americans might have. I think the biggest thing was not being certain which facts were cool new interesting things that no-one knew about and which were commonplace knowledge that you'd learn in school. Like, does everyone in America know who John Adams is? I'd literally never heard of him before :p Also it means that I can't talk about it with my friends or show off my new Obsessive Learning of Random Facts 'cause nobody actually knows what the hell I'm talking about. Oh yeah and I can't get excited by money cause the £10 note just has the queen or some shit :/

[@eeelneekey]

+Eliza Keating There are rumours of a West End production of Hamilton happening next year so fingers crossed!

[@lulusp1023]

You will love it...enjoy it

[@EllenFan4ever1019]

AT MACHINE ONLY DISTRIBUTES 1O DOLLAR BILLS. I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING

[@EllenFan4ever1019]

atm*

[@norabeisser8990]

Hi, McGonagall

[@sssmo500]

If I didn't know Lin's age at that time, I would've thought he'd be at most twenty four. He's progressed so much over the last decade.

[@elliebee9742]

"I'm REALLY good at the claw machine at Dave and busters"

[@ishikakroo]

aaaand now its a movie. im so proud of him and the show :')

[@SaffronGrey]

Malta. Goya. OHMIGOD I LOVE that stuff. Grew up with that. AGH I wish I could've seen this show. >.< On a LMM spree after having listened to the Hamilton soundtrack.

[@demented2935]

When you found out about in the heights in 2018 I wish I was mad... I’m just too late