Lin-Manuel Miranda Gives Powerful Speech at the Tony Awards in Response to Orlando Shooting
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News of the Orlando shooting led to touching tributes at the 2016 Tony Awards.
Host James Corden expressed his sincerest condolences to victims of the massacre on behalf of the theatre community saying, "Our hearts go out to all those affected by this atrocity. All we can say is that 'you are not on your own right now. Your tragedy is our tragedy.'"
Lin-Manuel Miranda also exhibited a respectful way to celebrate during a hopeless time in his acceptance speech for Best Original Score.
Miranda's musical, "Hamilton," won 11 Tony Awards. The show has become a "phenomenon," according to CNN because it infuses new age hip-hop musical numbers with an unlikely colonial-era story about the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton.