Javier Muñoz, who was the first to succeed Lin-Manuel Miranda in the title role of Broadway's Hamilton, will narrate the audiobook for Daniel Pollack-Pelzner's Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist.
Both the biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Hamilton composer and lyricist and the audiobook will be released September 9 by Simon & Schuster.
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Muñoz, who made his Broadway debut in Miranda's Tony-winning In the Heights, said in a statement, "Narrating this book is a bit surreal. Daniel’s writing is so poetic, so beautiful, so masterful, that reliving these cherished memories has brought me to tears in some chapters. Lin is first and foremost my friend, so to celebrate his journey in this way and honor all he’s done and given us is an unexpected and indescribable gift. For almost two decades, I’ve had the great privilege to create with him through that friendship, and I hope that I have a fraction of the ability to translate what Daniel has put on the page to the listener in the way that both Daniel and Lin have intended and would bless."
The 400-page tome, as previously reported, traces Miranda's path from the sensitive son of Puerto Rican parents living in an immigrant neighborhood in Manhattan to becoming the most successful musical theatre writer of his generation.
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The Education of an Artist draws on over 150 interviews with Miranda’s family, friends, and mentors—including Andrew Lloyd Webber—with insights from Miranda himself.
Pollack-Pelzner reveals the sources of creativity of the creator of Broadway's Hamilton and In the Heights, following Miranda's insatiable drive to make art and his eagerness to learn from anyone who could help him make it better, and how in the process of becoming an artist, he learned to synthesize his Latino heritage with the pop, hip-hop, and Broadway styles he absorbed in New York City.
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Pollack-Pelzner writes about theatre and contemporary culture for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times.
The upcoming book arrives as the Tony-winning Hamilton is celebrating its 10th anniversary on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
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