i'm lin-manuel miranda from the movie of
in the heights
and we are about to play choose your
musical theater squad
oh my god oh my goodness what is this
i'm looking at i love this
this is amazing where am i am i allowed
to pick things i wrote
or am i trying to pick the most uh
sort of diverse squad in terms of
talents
so i need an athlete i'm going to start
with troy bolton
um and in the height super fans will
know that i actually
did a troy bolton number on youtube
uh to advertise in the heights when we
opened on broadway i learned all the
choreography to
uh bet on it and danced around central
park
so troy bolton you're in the squad um
now
i need someone with super powers so i'm
gonna go
frozen elsa because she's got
some of my favorite numbers and uh
you know between let it go and show
yourself
um it is also she's also the most
intimidating person on here because when
i am writing for disney
i am writing in the shadow of let it go
and show yourself to the unknown damn
you
lopez's then for my third member of my
so i've got the athlete i've got the ice
powers
um and then i i need um
uh and i've got adina menzel as the
voice of elsa
um i i think um
that i will then go with billy porter
kinky boots as lola
because if you have seen uh billy in
that role
uh you know lola whatever lola wants
lola gets
um super powerful so that's my squad
troy bolton lola
and elsa uh okay i'm going for
uh alphabet and wicked because that
voice is just awesome you match my
menzel and raise me a menza yes yes
exactly
exactly adina
um okay and another i'm gonna need
uh a transformational kind of person i
uh um let me go with kermit there's a
there's a running theme here
why are there so many songs about
rainbows
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and they're both green hey carmen and i
have something in common because we both
think we can sing then i'm gonna go with
oh this is tough
this is tough this is tough i'm gonna go
with alexander
oh i'm gonna go with alexander because
this is this is like rounds it out
that's super powers to the max man alpha
kermit hamilton is a squad
all right off the rip nobody did it
i'm pulling the wild card i want angel
from
ranks
star power right there boom let's see i
want like a
like a heroine but like what an amazing
voice
so let's do dolores from sister act
sister mayor says take off your robes
and then okay and then now we want
someone who's like like lovable
and like i don't know a little quirky
maybe
willy wonka willy wonka's willy wonka
and i
i'm kind of in the mood for some
chocolate right now so
i'll go um oh
i'm gonna pick effie from dream girls
dream girls is one of my favorites
that's actually one of also the movie
musicals that i could watch again and
again
all right i'm gonna leave you some good
ones now uh
i'm gonna pick miss sista axe come on
whoopi goldberg
who my mom would you would used to call
would be cooper she's my favorite
i thought she was whoopi gooper because
my mom didn't
you know you know accents i love that
my sister act was a movie that i grew up
with
and my mom being such a fan of whoopi
goldberg we just loved that musical and
lauren hill and that and like i was a
big fan of like movie musicals i
never my family you know never really we
never went to watch
uh musicals on broadway i never really
got to
so like i really lived through like the
scream
i'm gonna pick us navi from in the
heights
and i see you got my boy anthony on
there i was like yeah that's too cool we
gotta we gotta have my boy aunt in there
not so many people that bring joy to me
like anthony ramos does
and i know for mel it's the same so we
gotta have him in there
uh i'm gonna pick this is so funny
but um i'm gonna pick troy bolton from
high school musical yes
because you know high school musical was
a big influence on my life
and zac efron was my childhood crush
yes um i'm gonna pick
maria from the sound of music because
how do you solve a problem like maria
and because it was one of my favorite
movies and
my little sister when she was five
did a production of the sound of music
in monterrey mexico
and she did like a full run and she was
a superstar she stole the sh
every night obviously i didn't have
five-year-olds she she auditioned
and they asked her if she could read the
scenes and she pretended that she knew
how to read she couldn't read at five
no she memorized it no i think she just
made up
lines she was just saying whatever she
wanted
and anyway books and
after seeing her like do a whole run of
a show like it really inspired me
because you know i've also wanted to do
that and
every day and everything is our show and
then i'm gonna pick
miss elphaba from wicked because
wicked is one of my first obsessions
in musical theater i know every single
word to every song
and i read the novel and i was like
obsessed at one point
at a like a concert i painted myself
green and i sang defined gravity
like it just i just have a history with
that show
and it is like one of the reasons that i
went to nyu and studying musical theater
so wow
i mean very good reason wicked is every
song
and then i bring in definitely
john cameron mitchell and even though
he's dead
i'd have to have gene
wilder but then i need some girl power
i love lin and you know lin lin can do
anything but i'm already working with
one so
okay john cameron and gene wilder and
i'm gonna just say whoopi goldberg gotta
say whippy goldberg
the morris okay so i'm going to take
dream girls dina
obviously hello um
i'm definitely going to take um
oh god wait i'm trying to think because
i really want dolores cartier
then cartier damn this is hard i'm gonna
take kermit
they will all be my different
personalities in different stages in my
life
listen we'll get we'll get hamilton
we'll get lynn too you know
favor does a favor you know he can
direct and write it and you know
hope you like our squad let us know in
the comments what you think
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