EVDOL 31 - The Work of Lin-Manuel Miranda: Defining Broadway Musicals Today

Edward Barnes
Continuing in the manner of the last season’s popular Sundays With Sondheim and this fall’s Sundays With Sinatra, this series returns for a look at the life and work of one of the most vibrant and exciting talents of contemporary musical theater, Lin-Manuel Miranda. Though he’s only 43 years old, Miranda is “”the winner of multiple Tony, Grammy, Olivier, and Emmy awards as well as Kennedy Center Honors and a Pulitzer Prize. This course will explore how and why he achieved so much so quickly; his craft as a composer, author, and lyricist; his working methods and techniques in improv and freestyle rap; and the development of h”s posse—Alex Lacamoire, Andy Blankenbuehler, and Thomas Kail—the team of artistic collaborators who help create and bring Miranda’s work to life. Classes will also survey Miranda’s work as an actor on stage and screen, film director, and his ongoing partnership with the Walt Disney Company.

Biography: Edward Barnes (BM ‘79, MM ‘80, composition) is an award-winning composer-lyricist and/or producer of more than 50 works of opera, theater, radio shows, and recordings. His work has been seen around the world from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to the Opera Company of the Philippines and San Francisco Mime Troupe. He has been a resident artist at the Instituto Sacatar (Brazil), Ucross Foundation (Wyoming), and Fundación Valparaíso (Spain), and served as the executive director of Gotham Chamber Opera, producing director of MasterVoices, and managing director of American Lyric Theater. He has won Guggenheim and NEA fellowships and the Stephen Sondheim Award for the creation of innovative musical theater.

3 weeks

Sundays 4–6pm ET

April 14–April 28

In Person Only

$240