Here's Eden Espinosa as Nina in an April 2005 reading of In The Heights! It's Very Different! The cast at this reading was
Eden Espinosa=Nina
Chris Jackson=Benny
Olga Merediz=Camila (!)
John Hererra=Kevin
Jene Hernandez=Vanessa
Me=Usnavi
Javier Muñoz=Lincoln (RIP)
Janet Dacal=Carla
Veronica Vasquez=Daniela
Doreen Montalvo=Abuela


Finale/Top Of The World In The Heights, April 2005

Lost Camila section, Club Demo

How to write an opening number for the Tony Awards:
1) Have Tom Kitt write a fiendishly simple and catchy melody.
2) Listen to this mp3 loop 100K times until you know what words to put to it.
3) Have Neil Patrick Harris give you 50 notes to make it funnier.
4) And you're done!

Bigger Demo Tony Opening 2013

This is the patter section of the opening #. Tom Kitt provided the chords, that's my vocal percussion on the track, and Neil Patrick Harris just kept saying,"This needs to be fast, complicated and brilliant." This section alone took two weeks to write.

Bigger Patter Section

Demo of a cut song from Heights in 2014. Lincoln Rosario, Nina's brother, aspires to a songwriting career and quits the family taxi business.

Cut Heights tune...I'm Out

Before Laurens and Lafayette came along, my first draft of My Shot was just Hamilton and an extended 2nd verse from Hercules Mulligan. Here is that demo.

My Shot First Draft

In 2014 I wrote a 15 minute musical for This American Life. This is my first rough pass as Everybody's Got a Cousin from that show.

Everybody's Got A Cousin First Pass

My demo for a cut tune from Bring It On: The Musical, an intro tune to The National Competition finale.

Don't Drop Demo

My demo for Silent E Is A Ninja, which I wrote for The Electric Company and performed with Chris "Shockwave" Sullivan.

Silent E Demo!

This was a song I wrote for Lincoln, Nina Rosario's (now extinct) brother in a 2005 draft of In The Heights. The setup: Kevin is handing him the keys to the family business, but Lincoln wants to be a songwriter.
That's me singing, Alex Lacamoire on keys.

I'm Out--Cut In The Heights Tune

First Draft of Your Obedient Servant.
2014. Words & Music by Me.

Your Obedient Servant First Draft

This was my definitive last crack at the last half of Carnaval Del Barrio on Garageband. Didn't have the end yet.

Carnaval Del Barrio, Garageband Demo

This is how the story of Gmorning, Gnight came into existence, to the tune of "The Other Side" by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul. Jonathan Sun & Lin-Manuel Miranda, in a bar. It happened JUST LIKE THIS. Here's a link to the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/603592/gmorning-gnight-by-lin-manuel-miranda/9781984854278/

Gmorning & Gnight!

This was a song I wrote for George Washington's death. It came after Dear Theodosia Reprise, also cut for time. Enjoy!

One Last Ride Reprise

An interlude I wrote but never included. It would have gone between Meet Me Inside and That Would Be Enough.
Basically, Mulligan quits the army, as Hamilton is dismissed
(setting the stage for his Yorktown return)

The Hamilton Mixtape

Mulligan's Goodbye-Cut Sons Of Liberty Interlude

An early draft of Benny's rap in the opening number of In The Heights. Dated September 2005. Alex Lacamoire on keys.

Benny Opening section Early Draft, September 2005

This was my first complete demo of Cross The Line from Bring It On: The Musical. I used Logic Pro. That's my wife as the voice of the "deduction robot." You can purchase the Cast Album and hear the final version wherever albums are sold.

Cross The Line Early Demo, December 2009

Here's the demo of Blackout I made on Garageband for the Broadway production

Blackout Demo, 2008

I write songs all the time but I'm a use this thing to play you old demos. Don't steal 'em. I love you.

Lin_Manuel

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