NEW YORK (AP) — As a Tony-winning composer and writer, Lin-Manuel Miranda sees nothing of spending five years writing a show, or months on just a few lines of dialogue. And then there's his other outlet: Coming up with a rap routine — or maybe a skit, or poignant love song — within a couple of seconds, based on words tossed out by a crowd that's expecting brilliance. The pressure of having to come up instantaneously with a rhymed riff on the subject of, say, Greek yogurt, or trigonometry, or customer service operators, would probably cause heart palpitations in most of us, or at least hives. But Miranda, 34, who's known as a whirlwind of precocious creative energy (he wrote the first draft of his Tony-winning "In the Heights" as an undergrad at Wesleyan), actively seeks that kind of pressure, as do his fellow "freestylers" in Freestyle Love Supreme.Read more on NewsOK.com
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