RICHARD: What did you like about the boy?
(PLAY MUSIC)
CAITLIN: He understands me.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MUSIC INCLUDED)
[drone status]
[bright tone]
[bright chord]
[engine beeps]
- So you had a heart attack.
You have a very bad blockage with a blood clot
in the arteries on the side of your heart.
Very dangerous.
We suck it out,
put a stent in that area,
and that was a year ago.
- Well.
- So since the last time I saw you,
what do you pay attention to in terms of...
How do you feel?
- You know, my...
the routine doesn't change.
[cheerful percussion music]
[speaks spanish]
Miguel!
I was probably busier than before the heart attack.
Make sure you choose Letitia James
for the attorney general.
And traveling more than usual.
This is too fast.
- How is your mental health?
My father worked in politics
and became the most efficient person in the room in his entire career.
It feels like everything is a test for this.
- Last question. - Last question?
- But other than that, I feel...
- Tired. Lots.
- Yes, because I slept a little.
- Very tired. - So ...
- And what time do you usually go to bed,
and what time do you wake up?
- I went to sleep
around midnight.
♪ ♪
I wake up about 5:30, a quarter to six,
so I sleep, like, 5 1/2 hours,
which is a little longer than usual.
[breathing deeply]
- I haven't heard of my father's heart attack
until almost done.
I was in London with my family, and ...
my dad called me I think from the hospital bed,
and said, "I'm-- I have--
I had a little heart attack. "
And really underestimate it.
I didn't realize how serious it was
See you later.
That's great Luis Miranda, to be honest.
He overcame the pain, and he kept moving,
because he's just a tireless bastard,
and so this is all about,
Well then, how can I handle this part
so can i continue? "
It's not like you're there for the plot.
- [laughs] Right, right, right.
- You know what? You could use a break.
- You've been gone non-stop for a long time, Luis.
I mean, really. - Nonstop.
♪ ♪
Where is my wife?
- Here.
The way my dad and I worked together was collaborative.
We started
with whatever creative work I do,
and then we found a way
to link it to the world at large.
[cheers and applause]
He became a gatekeeper for me in a very real way,
which I never anticipated about our relationship.
[cheers and applause]
[wild cheers]
I guess I should grow my hair back?
[wild cheers]
It will permeate. Anyway ...
[laughs]
So they spend time in Puerto Rico and they come here
and they flew here
and they spend money on the island.
[cheers and applause]
- What? [wild cheers]
[scorn]
- Okay, that's rude.
[crowd screaming]
The more things change,
more and more things stay the same.
As these children rushed onto the stage,
it reminds me
of the many crazy things I do
when I was at the same university.
[Latin guitar music]
- Class is suspended
at the University of Puerto Rico
after the riot last night
where a 21 -year -old girl was shot dead
and 50 people were injured.
The riots arose from protests against ROTC.
- When I studied at the University of Puerto Rico
in the 70s,
it was an unstable time.
- [sings in Spanish]
♪ ♪
- I participated in the protest movement.
There's always a reason to protest,
no different from now.
Our island is complicated.
We are a Spanish colony
until the United States acquired us in 1898,
after the war, when we became US territory
and continue to be a colony.
Congress made us citizens,
but we don't have the same rights
as fellow Americans.
We can fight in wars,
but we can't vote in the presidential election,
and we have no representation in Congress.
It's like a two -hour flight to Miami gives you rights
which you don't have in Puerto Rico.
We have suffered through failed leadership
which left us burdened with debt.
And our president throws paper towels at us
when we were beaten by Hurricane Maria.
But you don't choose where you come from.
♪ ♪
- Where do you come from?
- I'm from Puerto Rico.
A small town called Vega Alta.
[music upbeat]
It's a small town.
♪ ♪
- Nobody has money, but they ...
very educated and famous family
on the island.
Everything they want from me
do well in school.
My mom pushes my limits
endless.
Like, 95 is unacceptable,
and I will bring 95 home,
and the first question he will ask is,
"Did anyone get 100?"
I was like, "No, I'm top marks!"
"Well, next time you should do a little better."
I was like, "Thank you so much, Mom."
- I used to go to the cinema every Sunday.
[incoherent scream]
One day, dad took me to see
"The Unsinkable Molly Brown."
- You're busy, Molly. Why don't you stop?
- Sure, I was playing around, and I might give up,
but I won't give up!
How can people say I'm sad?
See! I'm blinkin'!
- When I watch the movie,
I'm just blown away.
- Then
Someday
♪ With all your might ♪
And may I
I will learn to read and write
- On the one hand, there is little ...
my own fantasy,
from my own story
from a little boy in a town
that kind of makes it big.
[cheerful music show]
What's interesting is the encouragement
this woman has.
[all cheering]
And I kind of identify with that urge.
- There's something about that moment, I guess.
The idea that he sees life for himself
it's bigger than Puerto Rico.
[soft music]
And, you know, you can trace it to Debbie Reynolds
bernyanyi di "The Unsinkable Molly Brown,"
"I'm not worried about going down, I'm going up."
You know, he's the one who had this big dream.
I think he grew up on a stable diet
American bootstrap narrative.
[music swells]
- I will study law
at the University of Puerto Rico.
That is what I have decided for me to do.
NYU recruited Puerto Ricans on the island,
but for a PhD program in psychology,
and I said, "What the hell."
So I went. I was interviewed.
I then got a letter of acceptance.
- Classes start in September.
I have been married for several months
for my seventh grade lover.
I have an apartment. I have a car.
I have a wife.
I am 18 years old, but I have everything else
owned by parents
and I realized,
that's not what i want in my life.
And get on the plane
and go.
In my head, I keep playing
"The Way We Are."
[sweeping orchestral ballad]
It was a very, very sad day.
♪ ♪
Divorce soon.
I've always seen this not as a permanent move,
but as a step in what I want to do next.
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- It's a different time.
It was a different experience.
It's, I think, the same DNA
that connects all of us who are from Puerto Rico,
especially at a certain age.
We share experiences.
It's a family,
it's one of trying to do better,
and explore this other place
which they call Nueva York.
♪ ♪
That is a real task
to reconcile the place you left in Puerto Rico
with this skyscraper
and people who speak different languages
and not too many support systems
outside of your family.
♪ ♪
- I just arrived in New York.
I live with my aunt.
I don't remember the culture shock.
I remember discrimination.
Every day, I write two or three letters
to the people of Puerto Rico,
and I'm going to the post office
to get the package
which my mother will send to me.
I've been in New York for a few months,
and the man looked at me, and he said,
“I’m Miranda too.
But not of your type. "
[laughs] And I'm like--
I didn't understand what he meant until much later.
It's like, "Oh, he's Italian American,
not Latino or Puerto Rican. "
Not everyone wants us here.
We can't get the same job.
Hard to find a place to stay.
It doesn't matter if you are a janitor
or a PhD student.
What they saw were Puerto Ricans,
some brown people,
some brown kids,
not Native American.
That motivates me.
I always want to correct mistakes.
And when I got to NYU, I realized it
that minority students have fought hard
to create a diverse student body,
especially at one time
when affirmative action is attacked.
So I immediately saw it as my responsibility
to join the fight,
to join the struggle,
and make sure that the class is behind me
as diverse as mine.
- I applied to NYU,
and they do student interviews,
and Luis should be a part of me,
but he came very late.
He came in--
I mean, it's the '70s--
long hair, jeans,
speak very passionately about this protest.
I remember thinking to myself,
"Oh, this person is very interesting."
Our first date was
22 April.
I know the exact date.
We went to see Knitting in Another Son,
which is this great Puerto Rican band.
[all singing in Spanish]
♪ ♪
And then we went dancing on El Corso,
which is this amazing dance hall
at 86th Street.
[cheerful Latin dance music]
♪ ♪
Another thing that is really remarkable about Luis is,
I am a single mother,
and I are one package.
Lucecita was 4 years old at the time,
and every day, she would ask if she could stay,
and she will give him permission to stay.
And in a week
about Luis being in our house,
he said to her,
"I've never had a father like you are a father to me."
[soft jazz music]
In May, he said he wanted to get married next month.
And I was like, "Well, kinda-- that's kinda fast for me."
So we got married in September.
Cita was adopted by him in November.
I mean, we speed this all up.
♪ ♪
And Lin-Manuel was born a few years later.
♪ ♪
[music upbeat]
- Luz and I-- we are very involved
empowering parents in Washington Heights.
Trying to build more schools,
trying to gain consciousness
of the immigrant population
who is really deprived of his rights,
and dealing with political people.
Someone told me to apply
to this special advisory position
for Hispanics for Ed Koch.
- Back then, the city was docile.
In the past,
This same rental weapon gives the city.
You have to understand,
no difference at all
whether you scream or not.
That doesn't move me.
It doesn't change me.
- Mr. Koch, I must say you are full of crap.
- If you don't want to hear me, we won't discuss it.
- And I remember in that first interview
raise with the mayor
some things I don't agree with.
You are in an interview for a job,
and here you are: "I don't agree with you on this
and I don't agree "-
a pair of balls.
And the mayor said to me, "Listen ...
"if you agree with me
"In six out of every ten things,
"and then in four other respects,
"You shut your mouth,
we will be in a good place. "
- He came there to be the head of Latino affairs
for Mayor Koch.
He took what was the token position
and turn it into a real position
with access and influence,
and he became one of Koch's main advisers
and one of Koch's most dependable people
and trusted, especially during campaign stress.
- I think Koch loves her
because he's real
and he's as rude as Koch.
I've been in administration.
I have attended a leadership training program,
and there is this annoying...
a leader who doesn't want to quit.
you will say something,
responding to his question,
and he is never satisfied,
and he will be even more angry
and go to war,
and so we finished the session. I said, "Who's that bastard?"
- I think part of the reason why Koch likes him is because
he is the Puerto Rican version of Koch.
There's honesty about Luis.
He's really unmitigated
in his critique
of the people he was trying to gather.
He didn't pull any punches,
and I think Koch might appreciate that.
- You know, I'm not someone
who will turn the other cheek if you hit me right?
I replied.
- Also, one of the things Luis can do
at a critical time during the Koch year
is to realize that the story of New York
in the 1980s would not just be a Puerto Rican story.
- I know my position
that Puerto Rico used to be
the largest number of Latin
and the one who chooses,
but i'm starting to see
big amount
from the Dominicans, from Colombia,
from Ecuador
who moved to the city,
and then President Reagan agreed
amnesty law.
- President Reagan signed today
massive immigration reform laws.
The new law grants amnesty to illegal aliens
who lived here before 1982.
I see it as a great opportunity
to reach out to other Latinos
to open government for them.
[percussion music]
- What he's doing is quite innovative.
He uses the power of numbers
by doing research.
How many are registered?
How many voted?
And then transfer that data
into action
to say to elected officials,
This is a growing population
"that not only your constituents.
"We are here, and we will stay here,
and we intend to flex our political muscles. "
[music upbeat]
- There are people who are indispensable
in our community.
I nominate Luis Miranda.
[cheers and applause]
- Sorry, Ed, I can't produce tonight's show.
No [laughs]
Well.
- Luis has a talent for bringing people together.
She also has prizes for fundraising,
which is not unimportant.
[stomping music]
[all sing a cappella]
[cheers and applause]
- I always think
about my next step,
and now I'm on this Latino path
and have a pretty good connection
in government, in the not-for-profit sector,
maybe this is the right time to move
do my own thing.
[music upbeat]
- When I was chosen
and when I appear
as a member of the DNC and all these things,
Luis is my Sancho Panza.
Let's do this.
But Luis was always the one to tell me,
"This can be measured.
"These are the right things.
These are things that go wrong. "
- Roberto came up to me and said,
"I met people who were running for the Senate.
"Namanya Chuck Schumer,
"And I think it's a good campaign
for you to start doing some work. "
- Next - what is it - senator?
- Your mouth to God's ear. - [laugh]
- Congressman Charles Schumer has his own views
in the US Senate.
Tonight, Schumer is officially racing
and face a tough battle ahead.
- The only real thing I learned
in my psychic PhD is statistics,
so I told him, "I want to see the poll."
He's, like, 5%.
So I remember going to Roberto and saying,
"Dude, I want to get into politics,
"but I don't want to start my career
with this person who has no prayer. "
Then I met Chuck Schumer,
and I was fascinated
by his energy.
- Atta-baby!
- He's a good fundraiser,
and he is tireless
in his belief that he could do the job.
So I accepted the job
doing Latino's part in the campaign.
- When Luis appears, there is a Latino community
which is basically disorganized.
They don't have many elected officials,
they have no people in positions of power,
and Luis knows how to accept large numbers of Hispanics,
but more importantly, the need
and channel it into the organization
powerful and influential
and you know as a political leader,
when Luis asks for something, people will listen.
[percussion music]
I ran against Al D'Amato.
He's a Senate giant,
Conservative Republicans,
and no one thought I could beat him.
- And Luz was like,
"Alfonse D'Amato is a good man.
"Whenever we have a problem,
I called the office, and they fixed it. "
I was like, "Even my wife doesn't support my nominee."
- When he took part in the Schumer race,
this is a tough race.
You know, in some ways, it's like a suicide mission.
- The Spanish campaign I did was based on the slogan:
"Don't get dressed, you won't go."
And that is the motto,
"Don't think that you are going anywhere.
No, and we will stop you. "
We got great support
in the Latino community, then ...
[cheers and applause] - I'm Chuck Schumer,
the next senator from New York.
- He became a senator.
And this is Hillary Clinton.
He wants to run for the Senate.
- I am honored today
to announce my candidacy
for the United States Senate from New York.
- I was approached
to work with his campaign.
[patriotic orchestral music]
So now, you know, in a few years,
we have two senators from the state of New York
as part of our portfolio.
- Now Congressman Adriano Espaillat,
Major de Blasio,
Tish James,
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
- How did he evolve
in terms of identity politics,
Luis becomes a political consultant
who can give advice
and form a message
outside the Latino community.
[unclear chat]
- It's so wild here, because we have one year ahead
with the allocation bill, with the farm bill...
- As a political operator, not so much
It was Latino who crossed over.
Luis diarusutamakan
Latin politics
and Latino culture in New York
in a very, very different way
of anyone I know has done it.
[soft orchestral music]
- Luis Miranda. Hi. How are you?
♪ ♪
[unpleasant music]
As the storm draws nearer and nearer
to Puerto Rico,
I have a big knot in my stomach.
♪ ♪
- With this 165 wind,
it will make this
strongest storm in history
to make a landing.
- The wind is very strong now,
at speeds above 120 miles per hour,
cut the tops of palm trees
and tore up the hostel that was in the building.
- [shout]
[wind howling]
[grim music]
♪ ♪
Ugh.
♪ ♪
- Hurricane Maria flattened Puerto Rico.
My family lives in the hills of Maricao
by Vega Alta.
There are several days radio silence.
You know, every cell tower has come out,
electricity is lost.
♪ ♪
- For me, Puerto Rican,
nya ...
This is untouched ...
♪ ♪
Best place
which is suddenly no more.
So do
all we can
be a job.
- I can open an account
where can we send money there,
and then I just talked to my brother,
Because in the end, I trusted my brother.
- Well.
- He actually drives the truck.
[playing piano]
- Our response to Puerto Rico is immediate.
I immediately started writing, because of that
my natural response to everything was, "Okay,
"let me write a song,
and we will start raising money. "
Alex, we have a lot of songs left.
- I know, but we have to do it right.
[hip hop music]
- This was even before
anyone from the administration has considered,
before we heard anything from the island.
I started writing "Almost Like Praying."
Say it out loud
And there's music playing
Say it softly and it's almost like praying
And realized,
"Okay, we have to get every Latina we know involved,"
and get a yes before I finish writing the song.
Say it out loud and the music plays
And then my dad was in logistics.
- We start at 2:00 in Miami.
[speaks spanish]
[unclear chat]
- Find out every Latin artist involved,
and he found, "Okay, we gotta fly to LA
and we have to fly to Miami,"
and solve the equation
to finish it as soon as possible.
- Good.
Let's have a separate conversation
that.
Can we work simultaneously rather than sequentially?
- [sings in Spanish]
[all singing in Spanish]
- It's almost like praying
- Hey.
- Hi.
We raised about $20 million for the Hispanic Federation.
That's all in more than 100,000 small donations.
It's not a company.
Those are the people who sent 5 dollars and 10 dollars
and lemonade stood up and broke their piggy bank.
[plays the piano] So that would be...
[both singing in Spanish]
- [sings in Spanish]
♪ ♪
- I'm the only one who really has a complete life
say Puerto Rico,
so to be aware
that it matters to my whole family
to be part of the effort
to rebuild the island
has been the most beautiful discovery.
- I think the most important thing Luis has done
is an amazing father
who conveyed to his children the importance of family.
It was always first and foremost for him.
- Maybe there will be a fundraiser in Miami
for the Latino Victory Fund...
- When I was there? - When you're in Miami.
- Of course there is!
- So I want you and your husband to go.
- He has all these ideas
and constantly, constantly just thinking about something
which he thought was a great idea.
Often times, they end up being, you know,
even if in the beginning, we were like,
"No, that's never going to work. That's not a good idea."
- My daughter--
he is great at math,
so i pushed it
into engineering and finance.
- If we were the Corleones, my brother would be Michael.
I'm Sonny. I'm too grumpy.
Hopefully none of us are Fredo.
He was the one who could really work with her.
They work very well together
and they have a very long time.
I worked for him for several summers,
and they always end in a screaming match,
for better or for worse,
I can't make myself care
about the things I don't care about,
so I keep getting kicked out of important work
to less important work
until I just did the data entry
and listen to music,
and that's the only way
where I can work for my father.
[singing unclear]
- Lin-Manuel is an artistic child.
That's the path,
and supporting him has always been important to me.
[singing in Spanish]
♪ ♪
- I never really talk to my dad
about his decision to leave Puerto Rico
until I kind of face
the same crossroads in my own life.
My first regular job after graduating from college
was teaching at my old high school.
I teach seventh grade English,
I became a theater advisor, and I loved it.
I mean, that's the secret. I really enjoyed it.
And I was offered a full time position
at the end of my freshman year,
and I wrote a letter to my father
and said, “I don’t know what to do.
"'In the Heights' sedang bergerak,
"I have collaborators that I like,
"But who knows if it will actually work?
"Should I take a full-time job
"and devote more time to teaching,
"or should I work
and actually devote myself to writing full time? "
He wrote this long letter to me back,
and he said, "I want the best for you.
"I want you to be able to pay your rent.
"I want you to be
"an independent and functioning adult,
"So I really wanted to have you teach,
"but then i will neglect my own life
"and my own courage
"And what brought me here and met your mother
"and take care of you and Lucecita,
so you have to follow your instincts. "
- ♪ Need to ride car A ♪
- I think "In the Heights" is good.
I liked the student production that Lin-Manuel did
by Wesleyan.
- I got off and left the station
Finally, vacation
- But it could be sucked in,
and it doesn't matter to me.
I will do everything I can
to help my son succeed.
I remember going to Ken Sunshine,
that I know from our days in politics,
and i know he is a big character
with stars,
and sort of came up to him and said, "Hey,
"I have this child who is nobody,
but he is very talented,
"and I know he'll go places,
but he needs someone like you. "
- Luis once mentioned me,
"I have a son who loves music and theatre,
and you're like in that world, right, Kenny? "
Because I don't think he knows too many people in that world,
although he personally has this love.
I do the same with anyone.
Talented or not as talented as they are,
follow your dreams you know?
It's a very tough business.
This - the chances of making it very small,
but follow your dream and...
I think at some point I said to Lin-Manuel,
and I said to Luis,
"You know, you can't make money with this.
"You know, no one makes money
"in entertainment--
especially in the theatre. "
- Five, six, a-five, six, seven, eight.
- Yo, check the technique, yo
[hip hop music]
- Kami membuka "In the Heights"
in our off-Broadway theater
in 2007,
and not many people know about "In the Heights".
It's hard to sell tickets for that show
who have no brand recognition,
which has no stars in it,
which received warm reviews but not excessive reviews,
and Luis just joined and started selling the group
and help us open a community
who doesn't often go to the theater
which we all know will love "In the Heights."
- In Washington Heights, at dawn
I wiped the tent
Hey everyone, good morning
- At altitude
- Then it uses my contacts
to sell tickets.
So my job becomes
just to spread the word
that my son has this off-Broadway play.
- Yo, you hear that music on the air? ️
Take the train to the top of the world and I'm there
I'm at home all: Home
What he saw from the start was that
politics and entertainment are very similar in one way,
especially Broadway.
You are trying to convince a lot of people
spend money they won't get back,
is it raising money for a political candidate
or invest in Broadway shows.
- So "In the Heights," a hit off Broadway,
go to Broadway.
I think Luis and I helped run
campaign for Tony is like a political campaign.
[percussion music]
♪ ♪
- And I remember we all said,
“Good.
"We must...
“Being in fashion, like, white.
"You clap like this.
"You don't go, 'Ah!'
That's very, very uncool. "
- And Tony Award for Best Score,
which I have opened, go to ...
"On the Highlands." [cheers and applause]
Music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
[music upbeat]
- And the winner--
The 2008 Tony Awards went to...
"In the Highlands."
[cheers and applause]
- We're all hamlets. We all screamed.
I can hear my sister,
which is in the first row mezzanine.
- Mom, Dad, and Cita, I wrote the drama
You guys come to every drama
Thank you for being here today
♪ Vanessa ♪
Which still leaves me breathless
Thank you for loving me when I was broke
And make breakfast
[laughs]
And with that, I want to thank all my Latinos
This is for Abuelo Wisin and Puerto Rico
Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
- Lin-Manuel has won a Tony for "In the Heights,"
and my friend called me and said,
“Do you think Lin-Manuel could come to the White House
and do one of the 'In the Heights' numbers? "
And Lin-Manuel said,
"Ah, yes, of course, that's cool,
"but do you think
will they let me do something else? "
[cheers and applause]
- My God.
I am pleased
The White House called me tonight
because I really work
di album hip-hop.
It's a concept album
about the life of someone who I think embodies hip-hop,
Minister of Finance Alexander Hamilton.
[piano hip-hop intens]
How bastard, orphan
Son of a whore, and a Scotsman
Falling in the middle of a forgotten place
In the Caribbean with maintenance
♪ Poor, in poverty ♪
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar? ️
- Artists reflect the world they live in.
So as "Hamilton" develops...
- By becoming much smarter
- I've always been curious to know,
how much is Luis in the role of Alexander Hamilton?
- Slaughtered and taken away
Across the waves ♪
Hamilton we stay alert
The main prize of Ron Chernow's biography is,
she always trapped him in her resolve,
and that's what I put in.
The idea of, "Okay, what else should I do?
"Okay, what else should I do?
All right, what else can I do? "
I mean, it's Luis Miranda
as much as that is Alexander Hamilton.
I don't need to look any further
from the apple tree.
This kid is crazy, man
When I played Hamilton, I only played my father.
Send him to the mainland
Get your education
Don't forget where you came from
And the world will know your name
What's your name, man? ️
Alexander Hamilton [laughs]
- I don't think anyone has seen it
meteoric success story
as fast as it was around "Hamilton."
- World
♪ It will never be the same ♪
♪ Alexander ♪
♪ Yes ♪
I am the damn genius who shot him
[cheers and applause]
Thank you.
So once we realized it
"Hamilton" will be a success,
I know I wanna take "Hamilton" to Puerto Rico,
and so with Hurricane Maria, the only thing that has changed is
our announcement schedule.
- [speaks Spanish]
[clap]
- Thank you, Luis.
In January 2019,
we will welcome new production
dari "Hamilton"
ke Teatro UP
[clap]
And we will also be here to raise money
to rebuild the island
and to rebuild the arts on the island.
[clap]
- Look, Puerto Rico should be open for business.
so let's plant the biggest flag we can
and said, "Hey, 'Hamilton' is coming to Puerto Rico,
and the real star will be in it. "
- Thank you. [laughter]
And our hope is to raise a lot of money
for Puerto Rico with this,
for art funding, for the university itself.
- It is not polite.
[crowd booing]
- Protesters come on stage
because we are very active
in Congress said something to help--
to allow Puerto Rico to file for bankruptcy,
and you know what?
valid points,
because of what happened as a result
the formation of the PROMESA board,
which basically asks for savings,
and most of the cutting is done at the expense of
from the University of Puerto Rico,
and it's so devastating
as the education of many children.
And I hate it, but I have to accept it.
[crowd screaming]
- The island is burdened
with billions of dollars in debt
and have no tools
to manage debt.
OK? Why?
Because it can not declare bankruptcy.
It can't do what other cities do,
for example, in the United States, has been done.
Decision to be left behind
this particular political solution
is not an easy thing.
PROMESA should be criticized.
The cut is complicated, right,
because the problem is not PROMESA.
The problem is American colonialism.
- [shouting in Spanish]
[crowd screaming]
- Hey, guys, listen up.
Can we do that? Do it?
Hey. Hi, friends. Friends.
[all shouting in spanish]
[crowd singing]
I have no agenda outside
besides making art and making Puerto Rico proud.
[cheers and applause]
[laughs]
[wild cheers]
That's all I want to do.
["The Greatest Showman," "Never Enough"]
[soft piano ballad]
- [song whistling]
♪ ♪
Never enough
Never
♪ ♪
Never enough
Never, never
Never enough
♪ ♪
Hi darling.
♪ ♪
- Thank you darling.
- Morning.
- My daily coffee.
- [laugh]
[knocking on door]
Bung.
Time to wake up.
♪ ♪
Puerto Rican breakfast.
Hot dog with eggs.
♪ ♪
Never
It will never be enough
- Luis can't help but become very strongly attached
to whoever is in his life.
- Miguel?
[knocking on door]
How are we
- Miguel came into Luis' life ...
- Come on, there's a hot breakfast.
Everything
♪ Every day ♪
- At the point where I think he's starting to feel old.
[laugh]
And Miguel renewed his youth.
It's like, now that he's a father again,
because he is the official guardian
since Miguel was a baby.
- You need to shave.
- I know.
I always forget.
My mother was in a very, very bad situation,
and Luis and his wife Luz--
they asked him if he wanted to live with them.
My mother was pregnant with me when all this happened.
They basically saved his life.
And that's why I'm here.
I have a midterm exam next week.
I was scared for the first two.
- Physics?
- Physics and history.
- Miguel comes from a bloodline of difficulty.
My sister has ADHD, all her children have ADHD,
Miguel's mother has ADHD,
and she suffers from ADHD and sensory problems.
- Tell me the order of the tests next week.
- On Monday, I have to--
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. - Well.
- Monday, you have ...
- Science and then history.
- The same day? - Yes.
They changed the schedule,
so we now have two exams a day.
Really unpleasant.
- Well. Then on the 18th?
- I have math and English.
- And Luis has been herding this child
who have very special needs
since she was a baby,
take him to a special needs school,
and then it worked
in guiding their education and care
to the point where this child is now revered
in public schools for the past three years.
- You might get the letter.
- Or e-mail.
- You got an email, I might get a CC.
- Just completed the college application process.
Just waiting for the letter - no fun.
It was so stressful because you waited
to hear from the colleges you most want to visit.
And that anxiety is there.
What will I do if I don't sign in?
- Hah?
Let me see what my life is like today.
- Maybe busy.
- [laugh]
So Manuel picks you up at 3:15.
- Mm-hmm. - He'll take you home.
He will wait for you. - Do you have a key?
--No, Titi.
We've been through this. I lost it.
- Okay, then I have to give you my keys.
- Yes, because no one is home
when he got home.
- Right. - Yes, can we handle it?
'Cause all you do is complain,
but you did nothing decisively
to get the damn key.
- All I know is, like, all my life,
he is constant.
For all I've been through,
everything I've done, everything I've--
like, all major things
that has happened in my life, he was there.
- Goodbye dear. Have a nice day.
- I was never able to repay him because of him...
Treat me like your own,
for the fact that he considers me his son.
Like, you can't reply to it.
No - all the money in the world
won't be enough
to, like, completely--
to, like, really thank him for that.
- [laugh]
- We're at the University of Puerto Rico theater.
This is a special place.
This is a theater that,
for everyone who goes
to the University of Puerto Rico,
have magic, you know?
And it's beautiful.
It's the most beautiful theater in Puerto Rico.
No doubt.
After the storm, Luis asked me,
"Ender, how do you think you brought 'Hamilton' here?"
And I said, "You should think about it twice,
"Because this theater is broken.
So, how do you want to do it? "
He said, "Yeah, but that's the point.
We want to help improve the theater. "
[grim music]
♪ ♪
- "Hamilton" went to UPR.
[laughs] - Yes.
- It's election day.
Republicans and Democrats have made it
their final case to the electorate.
Now, for many of you, it's time to vote.
- And almost without saying,
but i will say it anyway.
The stakes are high for both sides,
as Republicans want to survive
for the majority of their House and Senate
and the Democrats made this case
that they are necessary checks
on President Trump's agenda.
- Together, we make it. - [laugh]
- His right leg is broken.
My left foot--
broken left leg.
Together, we voted for two Democrats.
[both laugh]
During my first few years here,
I'm still a registered voter in Puerto Rico,
and that's more important to me.
Once I realized
that this is where I will spend my life,
I registered here,
realized that it was really up to the Puerto Ricans...
On the island to decide their political future.
[percussion music]
Tish James.
This is my last major local election.
[both laugh]
I shattered to pieces.
- Oh Lord.
- For Tish,
I was in the days for fundraising.
That's the part I took over.
Then how to use the money and the ads
and imaging and all that.
Surely this will be the last time I do that.
- My name is Letitia James,
and I'm the public defender of the city of New York,
and I wanted to stop by to say, thank you to all of you for voting.
So make sure you see everything on the ballot,
and, of course, make sure
You chose Letitia James as attorney general.
[cheers and applause]
For many years, I was a political operator.
Goodbye.
No press conference.
When you are a political operator,
today is the busiest day.
You kind of work and work and work
for D-Day,
which will happen today.
Now, being older and not the person
who is in charge of the days,
but being a political consultant,
a day like today,
You basically only get reports
about what is happening on the ground.
Ugh, God.
- I know. I know. I know.
As my father used to say in Spanish,
"Life is like a dirt sandwich,
and sometimes you actually bite it. "
Voting Democratic Congress
be the goal for 2018.
Now I can do this.
Not my president.
Beat this bastard in the White House
should be a call to action.
We really work hard
to support Latino candidates in Georgia.
- Go door to door in Gainesville.
The distance between the houses is very far.
- Knock on the door.
- Knock on the door for Stacey Abrams.
- So that we can increase the number of Latinos
for the entire Democratic ticket,
which will include Stacey Abrams.
Same thing in Florida.
- Thank you for everything you've done.
- Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
- Thanks very much.
- I have now gone to Florida
every two or three weeks for the past few months,
ensure that we give energy to Puerto Ricans,
because so many Puerto Ricans moved
after Hurricane Mary,
leaving the island as a climate refugee.
If something comes out of Hurricane Maria,
it has united ...
[speaks spanish]
Our allies in the United States
with Puerto Rico.
And now, together,
we can't be stopped.
[cheers and applause]
They live in hotels,
they are looking for a place or looking for a job,
they are looking for a school for their children,
and most importantly, we told them,
"Oh shit, and it's a historic election,
and you have to get involved. "
We ended up in North Carolina,
we ended up in Pennsylvania,
just follow the migration
and how we can help,
and in the end,
for me, it's always related to politics.
If you choose a person to represent you,
You have a stake as to what they will do.
[cheerful Latin music]
[singing in Spanish]
Well. I refreshed it.
♪ ♪
Let's go to Univision now.
[laugh]
♪ ♪
[groan]
[sigh]
- Hi.
Thank you.
Unfortunately, Blue Wave doesn't...
- It's not happening. - It's not happening.
- Not yet. - Scary.
And it looks like Gillum and Stacey...
- Is not going to work.
-Ay-yi-yi.
- 1.2 million for us.
- And what are we doing? 32.
- Nearly 32% reported.
- It's official. - They call it.
- Way to go. - Attorney General elected!
[all cheering]
- They call it.
Let me see. - No kisses.
- There is not any. - He's ready to go.
- Woman and man,
this is my honor and this is my privilege
to bring you
next attorney general
for the state of New York,
Letitia James.
[cheers and applause]
- I keep going up
I keep going up
- [speaks Spanish]
- Luis often minimizes the problems surrounding his health.
- I worry about stress.
And I don't see the end of his exhaustion.
He needs more rest.
Since this heart attack, I will tell him...
- [grunts]
- "I don't want to be a widow.
"What would my life be like without you?
And there is no more of you to replace you. "
- [sing]
I got an SMS
that there are 100 people online
at 4:57 p.m.
Morning.
[Jackie DeShannon "Put a Little Love in Your Heart"]
[laugh]
Thank you.
- Café?
- You see it's getting late
Oh, don't hesitate
Put a little love in your heart
--Kafe.
- And the world - Gracias.
- ♪ Will be a better place ♪
♪ And the world ♪ - ♪ And the world ♪
- ♪ Will be a better place ♪
For you - For you
- And I - And I
- You just wait - Just you wait
- And see
- Whoo!
We got our tickets.
It was worth the wait.
"You have to reduce your stress."
[both laugh]
- Breathe. Start breathing.
- [Speaks Spanish] - "Open the Breathe app now."
[grunts]
Well.
Let's continue the show
[music upbeat]
♪ ♪
[all cheering]
♪ ♪
- I'll be back tomorrow,
and tomorrow is the last show,
but I leave at 1:00 and--
- [laughs] Right, right, right.
- Sapa Ender.
- Bro. - Hi, Ender.
- It's crazy, but...
Luis Miranda 24/7.
Sometimes, he calls me at 1:00 am
and he said, "You have five minutes to talk?"
"Iya,"
but, I mean, it's 2:00 am
and he still texts me
or tell me to do something.
He is always on top of everything.
He's micromanagement.
He wanted to know everything.
- Last night, when we got home,
Luz said, "Let's go to sleep."
I am like,
"Honey, I haven't seen emails all day!
I can not sleep. "
And he was like, "Luis,
"We woke up
"at 4:15 p.m.
It's a quarter to 12."
"No no No.
"It's a quarter to 11 on my body.
"God gave me an extra hour.
I will use it wisely. "
♪ ♪
[whistle]
[percussion music]
I'm home, we're ready to start
the last part of "Hamilton,"
view e-mail,
and there is a copy of the letter
dari Brotherhood ke Lin-Manuel
advised him that there might be protests.
Hermandad is a union that represents workers
from the University of Puerto Rico.
They eat beef
with the administration about their contracts,
especially the provisions left alone
and children learn for free.
♪ ♪
- "Hamilton" will bring it
union production to Puerto Rico,
and here we are, involved in some trouble
with the unions we support.
We believe
workers in universities should study for free,
and their children too.
Yes.
- Oh, Luis is here. - Hey!
- Hey. Glad to see you.
- I see you. - How are you?
- Ah, I never knew.
- We did well here. - I know you.
- We're half a day ahead of schedule, I think.
- You are? - Already.
And we're gaining momentum, so--
- So fabulous. - We'll be fit.
The whole deck is down, the turntable is running.
They will start putting up the walls now.
So do it well.
- It was incredible. - Yes.
- Now let's see if we have a game.
If the University is open.
My heart rate was 84 when I woke up this morning,
and 94 now.
- Is that normal?
That's the range?
- This.
You know, all this could be for nothing.
[laughs] You understand?
"Hamilton" may not come to Puerto Rico.
- Stop it. - All this bullshit.
Hullaba-hoo.
- What do you call it? - Hullabaloo.
[laughs]
- Oh Lord.
- And all the signs and bullshit
may be meaningless.
I want you to spend time with Tim,
time with Alex,
time with all department heads,
so you will see little
about how "Hamilton" came together.
- Well.
- You have to take...
[grunts]
A few hours every day...
For homework and reviews.
Calm down, Miguel. Easy.
This is too fast.
- So I can't sleep.
You said I could.
- I lied.
So...
All right, it's like if you're at school, Dad.
No difference.
The difference is that you have fun.
What is--
I won't have time...
to be you
like me in New York.
- I don't want you to keep torturing me.
That's annoying. - I know.
- So I'm fine with that.
- I know I know.
- I am independent when I want and have to be.
- I know. Me--
- You just chose to be on my ass.
- It's my job to interrupt.
It's part of parenting.
I try not to,
but that's how you experience it.
[stressful percussion music]
- We had a big meeting in Fortaleza
with the chief of police in Puerto Rico,
Tuan Pesquera,
governor's staff.
On the other side here is Jeffrey Salesman,
staff from "Hamilton," plus Lin-Manuel.
Even Lin-Manuel was in the meeting.
- I said, "How are you feeling?"
Because he has made a miracle happen
to make it happen at La UP
Formerly--
the odds were stacked against us from the start.
This is a theater that needs a roof.
This is--
renovating the theater was a huge undertaking.
I am very proud of that.
- Luis and I-- we always push.
We encourage
to leave the show, the drama, at the university.
- Ideal Luis,
to honor this beautiful place, to honor this university,
to support this university,
and, of course, to make it a kind of homecoming for him,
graduate of this university,
is an honorable ideal, beautiful.
Not successful.
- Fiscal crisis, Maria,
all the bullshit this island goes through--
people can't calibrate anymore
what is the correct response to what,
and the right response
for many for everything is,
"Screw you!"
Because they have been stepped on.
[grim music]
♪ ♪
- We are placed between a real rock and a hard place.
In the end, the union withdrew,
and the union said, "We're not going to strike,"
but it's too late.
It was a risk we couldn't take.
I can quote an old theater owner
named Jimmy Nederlander, who said--
Who says it;
he died three years ago--
"People don't go to the movies. They go to shows."
We can perform on a concert stage in the park.
The point here is for Lin to come back
to his family's homeland
and appear for his people.
Theater presents several problems,
exacerbated by the hot political climate
here now,
and I don't want that to get in the way
of the greater good,
because the dog is the show.
The dog will bark, and that will be great.
♪ ♪
- A decision has been made.
So now, what's next?
We are looking into the possibility of moving to CBA,
Center for the Fine Arts in San Juan.
Now we have to do what we did at UPR
in 10 to 12 months in two weeks.
- Change of place is not just a change of place.
It's looking for a new space,
figuring out how the show fits into the new space,
find out hundreds of functions
which had been scheduled around the show.
- This is where the reception is.
- Beautiful.
- And where did it go now
were they supposed to be in the UP in the first round?
- This should be...
- Like, VIP box.
- Two VIP boxes.
This one and on the other hand,
but with this,
we lost 14 of these 22 seats.
- Well.
- It brought 50,000 people back to life.
So that's a Herculean achievement.
[percussion music]
♪ ♪
- But everything will be fine.
The set will be ready on Three Kings Day.
- That's all I want for Three Kings Day.
How are you? How is your mental health?
- How is my mental health?
That... it's solid.
- That's good. - This is very nice.
- Everything is going fast
for the biggest challenge of your career,
bring "Hamilton" to Puerto Rico?
- [laughs] Yes.
- Did you consider this
biggest challenge in your career?
- Uh ...
- That's up there with Freddy Ferrer--
choose Freddy Ferrer.
- True. True.
- It's on that scale.
Due to everyone's anxiety...
- Yes. - Up to you.
So what happens if that happens
is my anxiety-- the lowest.
I'm not crazy
when everyone around me is crazy.
It's like a dance.
- It's like a dance. - [sigh]
- So, a quick rundown of the week.
So Kaufman came first. - Well.
- Then on Friday, they go to the show and--
- Shall we talk about Fallon tomorrow morning
by 5th Avenue ...
- So we did, yes, in the 11:00 to 12:00 slot--
- Yes. - For an interview.
And then we also invite them
to Pelosi's reception,
if they were here for a Sunday night.
- Well. - I want all the contacts.
You know how to make contact together?
- Yes, I do, but I don't...
- Thank you. - That's weird.
- Do you take vitamins? - Hello friends.
- Me.
Whenever I remember, I put a lot in my mouth.
- I think you need some.
["Hamilton," "Hurricane"]
- He hugged me
- It's two days before opening night,
and we've finished the show,
and now we will start running it
with complete cast and orchestra,
costumes, everything,
so we can make the actors feel comfortable,
make the crew feel comfortable by running the show,
and get ready to welcome
2,000 people every night.
Moved cinemas in a relatively short time:
in my professional career doing Broadway shows
and national tours across the country,
probably one of the most challenging things
that we've faced as a team.
- I want to bring you a small refrigerator.
Because the fridge is so far away.
- OK good.
- And I have...
- The greatest minds of our generation.
- That is, too.
- Whenever you take a long time in a sentence,
I will fill the silence.
- No, this - remember,
there are 17 operations running concurrently.
- I know, Dad. You're supporting.
- I'm buffering.
- You are a great father and you are a great man.
Go save Puerto Rico.
- I have to go and save Puerto Rico.
- Bye. - Bye.
- Good luck. - Will not.
["Hamilton," "The Story of Tonight"]
[sad music]
♪ ♪
[all speak Spanish] - Okay.
Hi. How are you? - How are you?
♪ ♪
- Luis Miranda.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda.
I'll go and get changed.
- In my room?
- What I have to change is this.
- I flooded my room. - What do you mean?
- I showered, but the seal didn't fit right in the bathroom.
When I get out of the bathroom,
my entire dressing room floor was flooded.
- Enthusiastic? - Yes, very excited.
And today went well with Jimmy.
- Safe. - Hi. Safe.
- We did it! [laugh]
- We did it. This will be good.
- Of course.
How are you?
- Doing well. - Glad to see you.
♪ ♪
- Hi everybody. Here.
We're so excited to be doing "The Tonight Show"
from the beautiful island of Puerto Rico.
Even just walking around, you can feel the energy
and the spirit of this place.
History, food, music, people.
Puerto Rico is growing fast, and is open for business.
And what better way to show it
than Lin-Manuel Miranda who brought his entire team to the streets
and bring "Hamilton" to Puerto Rico?
They raised money for the island,
and they celebrate all the amazing things
Puerto Rico has to offer.
[percussion music]
♪ ♪
- So why is this the right place
send this message?
- Since all the press is here,
and the message we have to convey
will be sent to the nation,
that there are 3.3 million Americans
say Puerto Rico
who do not have rights like other citizens
in the continental US and every other state.
And we sent messages across the United States,
of which we are a part, and especially to Congress
that it is time to act.
We want Puerto Rico to be the 51st state.
["Hamilton", "Alexander Hamilton"]
[hip-hop orkestra]
Oh Lord!
- Hey. - Look who it is.
- Safe. - I am so proud of you.
- [laughs] - Nice to see you.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
[laughs]
This - that--
a miracle happened to make this night happen.
Many people make-- move mountains
so that we are here in Puerto Rico tonight
and raise as much money as we can for Puerto Rico
while we're here.
[cheers and applause]
I'm so proud to say no one moves mountains anymore
from Vega Alta--
Vega Alta himself, my father, Luis Miranda.
Here!
[cheers and applause]
- So ...
[cheers and applause]
So I know how hard it is
The "Hamilton" family works
to make it happen.
Produce locally, Ender Vega,
the folks at Bellas Artes...
[cheers and applause]
And Lin-Manuel always said,
and I remember it,
that it's not just to be experienced
"Hamilton" on artistic value,
but also...
So... [cheers and applause]
Thanks for my family
who has survived all this madness,
and, of course, for my genius son, Lin-Manuel.
[cheers and applause]
When I had a heart attack,
I keep saying to myself,
"You can't die today,
"Because Miguel is still
"In tenth grade,
"So calm down,
do whatever you have to do with your heart,"
because the other--
it really is in its place.
My most important job-- being a parent.
So until Miguel is done, I haven't finished the job.
[grunts]
Miguel!
- Miguel!
The letter is coming! - The letter is coming!
- The letter is here.
It's a small letter.
- This is a small letter, said Titi.
[laughs]
- Must sit in the middle.
- All right, son?
- Yes, lean, lean, lean.
- No no No. I just touched her heart.
- Iya! - Yeah!
- Yes! Yes!
Yes!
[cheering] [laughs]
- Yes!
Oh Lord!
- That's a really cool way to let you know.
- Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
[laugh]
Oh, we're done! - Oh Lord.
- We're finally done with this process!
- Here's the letter.
- Read - read aloud. Read aloud.
-"Dear Miguel, this is a special pleasure
"to notify you of your acceptance
"ke Skidmore College
"through the Preliminary Decision plan.
"Congratulations,
"and we hope you are proud of your accomplishments
"as we have you as a member
from the Skidmore community. "
["Never enough"]
- Yes.
♪ ♪
- You'll never hear from me!
[all grunt]
- You're busy, Molly.
- Pa, are you awake?
- Sure, I'm busy... - Yes.
- And I may give up, but I won't give up.
- Come here. Don't eat anything.
Too late.
Air.
Come.
Your favorite movie.
- Oh, shit. - [laugh]
Can't sink
♪ Molly Brown ♪
- I will never understand
why do you like this movie so much.
- But the time will come,
Because nothing - no, no one wants me to get off ...
- He went out.
♪ ♪
- I live my life understanding
that at some point, I will die,
and I will rest forever.
Like, eternity is, like, forever.
So as long as I can walk,
and I can do many things,
I will do anything,
waiting for that moment of eternity.
♪ ♪
This, "Okay, let me have another cup of coffee
"to get more energy
"to pass through
"14.000 email
which I haven't opened. "
- Hey ♪
I'm younger than you now
When I was given my first order
♪ I led my men to the massacre ♪
Witnessing their deaths in person
Oh, I made every mistake
I feel a sense of shame inside of me
And even now, I woke up
♪ Know history, history ♪
all: ♪ History has its eyes ♪
♪ On me ♪
♪ History, history, history ♪
- ♪ Ah ♪
[John Legend's "History Has Its Eyes on You"]
Let me tell you what I wish I knew
When I was young and dreamed of glory
Is no one in control
all: ♪ Who is alive, who is dead, who tells your story ♪
I know we can win
I know greatness lies in you
But remember from here on
That history, history
all: ♪ History has its eyes ♪
To you
♪ History, history, history ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ History has its eyes ♪
To you
- Oh, oh, oh - History, history
♪ History ♪ - ♪ Mm ♪
- ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
- ♪ Yes ♪
♪ ♪
[bright tone]