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Lin-Manuel Miranda celebrates immigrants in prize speech

2016-04-08 05:04:11| Food - Topix.net

Miranda has accepted Thursday, Apri... NEW YORK - Composer and playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda has accepted one of the largest prizes given for the stage by celebrating immigrants, saying that his creation of the Broadway smash "Hamilton" was sparked by learning about Alexander Hamilton's overseas roots. Miranda, who on Thursday was awarded The Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History, told of reading a biography of the first U.S. treasury secretary by Ron Chernow and learning that he was born and raised in what was then the West Indies.

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