Celebrities answer
“Hamilton” mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda’s challenge to perform a snippet of their favorite tune from the show to help immigrants.
Celebrities are taking action to answer “Hamilton” mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda’s challenge Monday to perform a snippet of their favorite tune from the show to help immigrants
In a tweet, the musical powerhouse proposed participants post a video online with the hashtag #Ham4All and donate to Immigrants: We Get the Job Done Coalition in honor of Immigration Heritage Month.
A donation to the coalition earns participants the chance to win tickets to opening night of the Los Angeles run of “Hamilton” on Aug. 16 at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
So far, participants include TV creator and activist Shonda Rhimes (who rapped Jefferson’s breakneck verse in “Washington on Your Side), “Jane the Virgin” star Gina Rodriguez, powerhouse pop singer Kelly Clarkson, Broadway alum Sara Ramirez and former “Hamilton” headliner Taran Killam (who, ironically, was the only participant to stumble over his lyrics), among an impressive handful of others.
In February, Miranda’s “Immigrants, We Get the Job Done,” a particularly resonant track off 2016’s “The Hamilton Mixtape,” became a sort of protest anthem, with its lyrics scrawled across signs and placards in the aftermath of the announcement of President Donald Trump’s immigration ban.