Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Freestyle Love Supreme improv hip-hop present heading to Broadway
Freestyle Love Supreme, picture by Marielle Solan Images for @ArsNova/by way of @freestylelove
For Lin-Manuel Miranda’s subsequent mission, he’s reaching again to his first. The polymath has introduced he’s bringing his pre-Hamilton, pre-Within the Heights manufacturing Freestyle Love Supreme to Broadway this fall.
Freestyle Love Supreme is a hip-hop improv present created by Miranda, Thomas Kail (who directed each within the Heights and Hamilton on Broadway) and Anthony Veneziale. It’s lived in lots of incarnations since its inception in 2004, together with a short-lived TV collection and a Seeso particular. Most lately, the troupe wrapped a run on the Greenwich Home Theater in New York and introduced 9 reveals on the Kennedy Heart this summer time.
The 16-week Broadway manufacturing will run from October via January, with previews starting September 13th. The core firm contains Veneziale, Andrew Bancroft, Arthur Lewis, Invoice Sherman, Chris Sullivan, and Utkarsh Ambudkar. Particular friends will seem unannounced all through the residency, together with Wayne Brady, Christopher Jackson, James Monroe Iglehart, and Daveed Diggs. And sure, Miranda plans on delivering some Freestyle Love Supreme as nicely.
“Once we did the Off Broadway run, I in all probability did a pair instances per week, and I’m hoping to do one thing much like that,” Miranda mentioned (by way of The New York Occasions) he mentioned. “Will probably be a contented time when I’ll watch the edit [of the currently filming In the Heights movie adaptation] and rap with my mates.”
Watch Miranda take part in Wheel of Freestyle on final evening’s Tonight Present: