![]() ![]() ![]() You see all the different drafts before you get to the one we know.’ The lesson? ‘That hard work can lead to beautiful, simple things.’ You see sayonara crossed out, because that doesn’t fit. Then 15 pages to get to “So long, farewell”. ‘I saw 30 pages of notes to arrive at “Doh, a deer”. You know, “Doh, a deer, a female deer…”,’ Miranda says, breaking lightly into song on that final phrase (he breaks lightly into song a lot) before steadying his jazz hands and holding out a palm as if to say, wait until you hear this. ‘I went to see his papers, and these are songs that we just learn as kids. ![]() Specifically, the lyrics of one of his heroes, Oscar Hammerstein II. Not long ago, Lin-Manuel Miranda – the playwright, composer, filmmaker, actor, rapper and professional enthusiast – went to Washington DC to visit the Library of Congress, the de facto national library of America, on a simple fact-finding mission: to see just how much toil and faff is involved in creating what appears to be a product of simple genius. ![]()
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