If the Broadway king is going to perform songs from “Hair,” it’s got to be authentic.
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Most people have to pay hundreds of dollars to see Broadway darling Lin-Manuel Miranda
break out into joyful song and dance. But a lucky ― and very confused ―
group of Los Angeles commuters got treated to a whole lot more for
free.
The “Hamilton” creator and star joined James Corden
for an NSFW rendition of his recurring “the Late Late Show” segment,
“Crosswalk the Musical,” in which Corden and guests perform musical
numbers in busy streets during red lights.
First,
Miranda, Corden and a gang of hippies perform a psychedelic rendition
of “Aquarius” from the 1960s musical “Hair.” The performance was groovy,
but not quite authentic to the Broadway original.
“In
the original production of ‘Hair’ the entire cast got naked,” Miranda
said. “But both CBS and the state of California have told us we can’t be
nude in the crosswalk. Then again, people told me that Alexander
Hamilton wasn’t a Puerto Rican rapper with beautiful brown eyes.”
Miranda
and Corden then proceed to perform the “Let the Sunshine In” portion of
the song wearing nothing but glorious, floor-length robes, which they
remove mid-song. Yes, Lin-Manuel Miranda danced naked in the middle of
Los Angeles.
“I’ve never felt so free!” Miranda says afterward, shaking his blurred out genitalia to and fro. Let the sun shine, indeed.
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