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Lin-Manuel Miranda took the stage at the reopening of Broadway’s “Freestyle Love Supreme” Tuesday night at the Booth Theatre, spitting rhymes and telling theatergoers to keep coming back.
The show, which centers around improv raps to audience suggestions and features special guests, was created as a hip hop impov group in 2004 by Miranda and Anthony Veneziale, before Miranda broke out with Broadway hits “Hamilton” and “In The Heights.”
“The audience went crazy when he came out in the beginning as one of the special guests,” says an attendee. “He amazed the audience by freestyling to words they had submitted.”
“Hamilton” star Daveed Diggs also took part in the show, freestyling a song based on the audience-suggested word “fig,” and incorporating it into a story pulled from his own life.
Miranda and the show’s director Thomas Kail, who also directed “Hamilton” and “In The Heights,” closed out the evening by thanking the audience — which included former “SNL” star Rachel Dratch, “Succession” star Arian Moayed, Gayle King, and Laura Benanti— and encouraging them to support live theater.
The show — which is different every night due to the on-the-spot improv — opened on Broadway in 2019 and has been on pause since the start of the pandemic.
It’s gotten rave reviews and created new stars like Aneesa Folds, who continues in Miranda’s orbit, appearing in his upcoming movie “Tick, Tick… Boom!”
The upcoming Netflix film, “Tick, Tick… Boom!,” is an adaptation of an autobiographical musical by “Rent” creator Jonathan Larson, starring Andrew Garfield. Miranda is making his debut as a feature director with the project.
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