Lin-Manuel Miranda has more than one major milestone to celebrate this week.
“Listen, I love you all, and I hope you all see Hamilton in theaters on September 5,” Miranda, 45, told Us Weekly exclusively, addressing fans directly at the premiere of the film version of his iconic musical in New York City on Wednesday, September 3. “I won’t be there. I will be celebrating 20 years together and 15 years married [with my wife].”
The filmed version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical originally was released on Disney+ in July 2020, but in celebration of the 10-year anniversary of Hamilton’s Broadway debut, the movie version is coming to theaters nationwide and in Puerto Rico on Friday, September 5.
That also just so happens to be 15 years to the day since Miranda’s wedding to wife Vanessa Nadal.
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“Our whole bridal party is getting together, so we’re all just going to my house,” Miranda told Us of his anniversary plans. “We’re going to have a nice dinner, sing some karaoke. That’s the plan. I’ll be recovering most of the movie weekend.”
Miranda and Nadal, 43, attended the same high school before reconnecting via Facebook years later. After sparking a romance in 2005, they were married in 2010 and welcomed sons Sebastian and Francisco in 2014 and 2018, respectively.
Nadal has been by the playwright and actor’s side since the very inception of Hamilton, which took him seven years to write before it hit the Broadway stage in 2015. The show is still at the Richard Rodgers Theatre a decade later.
HAMILTON, Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton, 2020. © Disney+ / Courtesy Everett Collection Disney+ / Courtesy Everett Collection
Filmed in June 2016, the Hamilton film features most of the Tony award-winning musical’s cast, including Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Daveed Diggs, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson, Jonathan Groff and Phillipa Soo.
While he had major success with the biographical musical centered on Alexander Hamilton and the founding of the United States, Miranda isn’t quite sure he’d want to write a political show that takes place in the modern age.
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“I don’t think I would touch this era with a 10-foot pole. It’s dark times. It’s hard to find where the singing and dancing comes in,” Miranda told Us when asked about a potential new musical focused on today’s political landscape. “I’d probably go the other way. I’d write, like, about a really small local election and how that town’s policies reflect the wider world instead of tackling the founding of the country, which was ambitious for a 28-year-old man. I say as a 45 year old.”
Ambitious, indeed, but the Tony winner admits, “It worked out OK.”