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Demos and cut songs from "In The Heights" and "Hamilton" written by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Demos and cut songs

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

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

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

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.

Everybody's Got A Cousin First Pass

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