Luis A. Miranda Jr. was just 19 years old when he arrived in New York City from a small town in Puerto Rico, a broke doctoral student badly needing a job.It was 1974 — decades before 'Hamilton,' the Tony Award -winning musical created by his son Lin-Manuel, became a sensation and brought his family international recognition and unexpected fortune — when a nonprofit focused on Puerto Rican youth hired Miranda as a researcher in its office a few blocks from the Empire State Building.
You have no idea how many people said to me, 'It's really a tall order, we don't have the audience.' It becomes a chicken and egg situation, because if you don't have a place, how do you get an audience?So we put the first $1 million in. Then, I went to New York-Presbyterian and said, 'You need to match us, because you are the employer of this community.' Then all of a sudden every foundation is coming in, and we're raising $20 million to create a real theater.
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