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Lin Manuel Miranda has a “sad Beyonce story” because the night she came to see Hamilton after it opened on Broadway in New York City…he was sick!

“I’ll tell you my sad Beyonce story, which is that the night Beyoncé and Jay Z came to Hamilton I had a 104 degree fever and I could not get to the theater to perform in the show.It was my first time being sick. It was my first time calling out,” Lin-Manuel told Zane Lowe on Apple Music. “And at noon they said, ‘Beyonce‘s coming tonight.’ And I was like, ‘Pull the IV out, I can do it.’ My wife was like you, ‘You have to stay home.’”

After Beyonce saw Hamilton, an interaction she had with one of the cast members actually went viral!

Hamilton is now available to stream on Disney+.

With the massive success of the Hamilton movie this weekend, there has also been a renewed conversation about the show and how it portrays history.

Some people on social media have accused Lin-Manuel Miranda of glorifying slave owners. Even though Alexander Hamilton despised slavery, he has been accused of being complicit as he had several friends who owned slaves, including George Washington.

Lin took to Twitter on Monday (July 6) and responded to a thread that debated the critiques the show is facing.

Tracy Clayton tweeted, “hamilton is a flawed play about flawed people written by an imperfect person that gave my flawed and imperfect little life a big boost when i needed it most, so again i know im biased, but i do appreciate the change this illustrates & will be following the convo’s evolution.”

Lin responded and said that “all the criticisms are valid” and explained why he didn’t include slavery in the show.

“Appreciate you so much, @brokeymcpoverty. All the criticisms are valid. The sheer tonnage of complexities & failings of these people I couldn’t get. Or wrestled with but cut. I took 6 years and fit as much as I could in a 2.5 hour musical. Did my best. It’s all fair game,” he said.

Here is what Lin had to say about what inspired him to write a musical about Hamilton.

The filmed version of the Broadway musical Hamilton will not be nominated for any awards at the 2021 Oscars, because the film is not eligible.

Variety has confirmed with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that “recorded stage productions are not eligible for consideration.”

The Hamilton movie was originally supposed to be released in theaters in October 2021, but Disney decided to put the film on Disney+ to give fans some amazing content while movie theaters are shut down due to the pandemic.

Actor James Whitmore earned a Best Actor nomination at the 1976 Oscars for his performance in a recording of the one-man stage play Give ‘em Hell, Harry, but rules were changed in 1997 to make these types of performances ineligible.

The cast and crew of Hamilton has already been awarded plenty of prizes. The show won 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, as well as a Grammy Award and a Pulitzer Prize.

The Hamilton movie still has a shot at being nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) category. The “the principal host for variety series and the principal host/performer for variety specials are eligible to be entered with the program categories. Secondary performers are not eligible.” This means that Lin-Manuel Miranda will likely be eligible alongside the producers in this category.

The film will also be eligible in some crafts field, like directing, music direction, and more.

Will an actual movie adaptation of Hamilton ever be made? Here is what Lin had to say about that!

Now that the stage version of Hamilton has hit Disney+, fans are wondering if they Broadway show will ever be turned into a movie. However, it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.

According to Lin-Manuel Miranda, he doesn’t have any plans on making a movie version of Hamilton.

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During an interview with Variety a few months ago, the 40-year-old Tony winner revealed that he’s not convinced that Hamilton will be taking the same path as his other Broadway show In The Heights, which first started off on Broadway and now has been turned into a movie.

“I don’t love a lot of movie musicals based on shows because it’s hard to stick the landing,” Lin shared. “I’m very proud of [director] Jon Chu’s version of In the Heights.”

“It is a different animal than the stage production. As long as I think of those as different things, it’s exciting. I don’t know what a cinematic version of Hamilton looks like. If I had, I’d have written it as a movie.”

The filmed stage version of Hamilton‘s director Tommy Kail agreed with Lin.

“I don’t know what the narrative feature of Hamilton looks like either,” Tommy admitted. “But my sense is that – and Lin might have struck on the key to it for me – when you are making an adaptation of a musical that is a movie, it shouldn’t necessarily try to be the stage play. It needs to be free from that, because you’ll fail.”

Tommy continued: “I’m going to make something that lives alongside that, just like it lives alongside a high school production, a college production, and the original Broadway production, and all of the revivals of it.”

Find out what part of Hamilton has a lot of people talking about!

One of the members of the original cast of Hamilton, Javier Muñoz, is issuing a gentle reminder that the Disney+ version of the musical does not actually include the full original cast.

“A gentle reminder that Hamilton on Disney+ is not the original cast. It is the original production. Both Betsy Struxness and Emmy Raver Lampman are absent as they’d already left the show. These are 2 brilliant artists who poured their hearts into creating their tracks,” Javier tweeted out to fans who were citing the version as the full original cast.

Emmy Raver Lampman was part of the ensemble but left the show to star in the Spongebob Squarepants musical in Chicago. Betsy understudied the role of Angelica Schuyler but left the production in March of 2016. This version of Hamilton was filmed in June of 2016.

Javier was part of the original cast, but played the alternate for the role of Alexander Hamilton. In the Disney+ filmed version, Lin-Manuel Miranda portrays the role.

See the full cast list for the Disney+ Hamilton if you missed it!

Lin-Manuel Miranda has locked his Twitter account and he’s now private on the social media app.

The 40-year-old actor and composer, who is the star and creator of the Broadway musical Hamilton, went private on Twitter sometime on late Friday night (July 3).

The filmed version of Hamilton debuted on Disney+ that day and Lin participated in a live-tweeting party with fans and the rest of the cast from 7pm EST until 10pm EST. Shortly after the tweeting party ended, he locked his account. (Check out an interesting detail about the show that he revealed during the Twitter party)

Lin signed off for the night by saying, “Thank you for tonight. I’m so grateful you just have the whole thing now. With this extraordinary company and crew. It’s yours.”

There’s a lot of speculation happening right now over the reason for Lin going private, but one topic that seems to be trending is how Hamilton is about a group of men that were slave owners. There are some people calling the show racist for glorifying these people in history.

Also, an audio clip is spreading around from when Lin-Manuel provided the voice for the an audio-book and said the N-word as part of the lines.

Read what some fans are saying about Lin locking his account:

UPDATE: Lin has gone public on Twitter again.

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Vanessa Nadal is poking fun at husband Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s love life in Hamilton.

The wife of the 40-year-old composer shared just how she reacts when Lin, as the title character, kisses someone in the hip-hop musical.

While live tweeting with the original cast tonight (July 3), Vanessa admitted that she actually boos the scenes.

“I always boo when Lin kisses someone else on stage, and people sitting around me look at me like I’m a crazy person,” she wrote.

Vanessa then added that her and Lin‘s oldest child, Sebastian, reminded her that she actually forgot to boo at one of them.

“‘you missed the fourth kiss,’ reports Sebastian. He’s counting. Thanks, kid,” she wrote.

Vanessa and Lin have been married since 2010 and share two children together, Sebastian, 5, and Francisco, 2.

If you didn’t see, find out what first inspired Lin to write a hip-hop musical based on Alexander Hamilton.