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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

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This track is from the 2008 Grammy Award winning Original Broadway Cast Recording of In the Heights, Ghostlight Records. Used by permission.

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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

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

UPDATE: In honor of the Hamiltome release this week, I've made some tweaks to the latter part of this song and gotten a Soundcloud Pro account so you can download it. Thanks for all the listens and likes, friends!

Cheers everyone for the amazing response. I am floored that both Lin-Manuel Miranda and Guillermo del Toro retweeted this. 

If you want to post this on Tumblr please reblog this post: http://hauntedfalcon.tumblr.com/post/131330595494/has-this-been-done-yet

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Big Bad Wolf (From UNIVERSES' Musical "UNISON") early version. By: UNIVERSES & Broken Chord. Sung by: Mildred Ruiz-Sapp.

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Photo by: Jenny Graham

"Big Bad Wolf" from UNIVERSES' Musical "UNISON" (early version)

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

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

Blackout Demo, 2008

Where do the light-speed raps of Freestyle Love Supreme come from? The composer/star of “In the Heights” shares his secrets – and offers a backstage look at writing Tony numbers for Neil Patrick Harris as well as his views on Sondheim, He-Man underwear, and the MCs who belong on the Mount Rushmore of Rap.

Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Mind of a Freestyle MC

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.

Bigger Demo Tony Opening 2013

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