Hamilton star Lin-Manuel Miranda live-tweets his 20-year high school reunion — see the photos!
As the creator and original star of Broadway blockbuster Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda is a beloved celebrity, and he is also someone who makes hi personal life incredibly accessible to his fans. His Twitter account is like an open diary, and it's generally as relatable as a mega-celebrity diary could possibly be. For instance, this past weekend was Miranda's 20 year high school reunion. Like many people who are returning home to meet with all their old friends who helped form them as kids, he was kinda freaking out about it.
The 20 Year Hunter High School Reunion Drinks Thread (I’m running around today, so this will be slow).
— 🇵🇷Lin-Manuel Miranda 🏳️🌈 (@Lin_Manuel) June 4, 2018Miranda shared a whole thread about the experience and how much anxiety he was having over seeing everybody again. He arrived a bit early with his wife, Vanessa, who is also an alum of the same school though she was a few years younger. Despite his nerves, Miranda took a moment to appreciate his wife looking fine for the big party.
It was at a beautiful art studio in Queens.
So, yknow, the corner of 36th st, 35th Blvd, and 37th ave, or vice versa, Queens makes no sense
We were coming in from vacation and got to Queens an hour early so we went to this place for a pre-show drink.@VAMNit looked SLAMMIN, as she does, every day, Christ I’m lucky. pic.twitter.com/pd4GsA9pJx
— 🇵🇷Lin-Manuel Miranda 🏳️🌈 (@Lin_Manuel) June 4, 2018He assumed that back in school, Vanessa had no idea who he was. But that proved to be a FALSE assumption on his part.
Vanessa went to my high school, 2 years younger, but didn’t know I was alive back then.
OR DID SHE?!
Little did I know I’d find out LATER THAT NIGHT. pic.twitter.com/I642r3u2HD
Anyway, he was freaking.
My general mood before walking into the reunion pic.twitter.com/kfvy09bviV
— 🇵🇷Lin-Manuel Miranda 🏳️🌈 (@Lin_Manuel) June 4, 2018(I went denim shirt, but not Gap and not 3 sizes too big, because I am a fancy grownup with a Pulitzer Prize now, no longer Puerto Rican Corey Matthews) pic.twitter.com/n1smCwrrv4
— 🇵🇷Lin-Manuel Miranda 🏳️🌈 (@Lin_Manuel) June 4, 2018Fame has many blessings, but it can change things between you and the people you knew before the awards started flooding in. Miranda said he wasn't sure how everyone he used to hang with would react to him, basically.
I dunno why I was nervous.
I suppose life has gotten really different these past couple of years. I kept waiting for life to return to normal after opening night, and it never happened.
Also, I went to our school K-12th grade.
So there are kids I knew for 6 years, and there are kids I knew my whole f’in childhood.
I was terrified things would be different with them.
But it was no problem. Friends are friends. Some are tall.
Anyway, I needn’t have worried.
Here’s my friend Roger. Roger has always been my tallest friend and he remains my tallest friend pic.twitter.com/FSYXpEVNey
Here’s my friend Jillian. We were 2 of the 5 Latino kids in our whole grade in elementary school... pic.twitter.com/3CsIQCgrCg
— 🇵🇷Lin-Manuel Miranda 🏳️🌈 (@Lin_Manuel) June 4, 2018Here’s Stephanie, who really went in on the reunion, and donated the space and made it happen, thank you Stephanie pic.twitter.com/VZwsKnMUkg
— 🇵🇷Lin-Manuel Miranda 🏳️🌈 (@Lin_Manuel) June 4, 2018Though can you imagine getting shouted out as the women Miranda used to crush on in middle school?
Here’s Jessica, Adriana and Irulan.
I had crushes on all these women at some point in middle school or another, and now we all talk about is how to get our respective kids to sleep through the night pic.twitter.com/9QJNgAARtg
Apparently, the school is familiar with fame—it was also the school for a Real World contestant, Irulan. Irulan brought some fun pics for the Miranda fans out there. Look at this cutie:
Wait, Irulan sidebar.
Yes, Irulan from Real World: Vegas.
Also just hilarious and brilliant, and has been since kindergarten. She brought all these middle school pics so you can thank HER for this pic. pic.twitter.com/XNfEpwy8y9
Irulan also had the good sense to marry outside our grade, here’s her husband, hearthrob of ‘99, Mikey Budabin, with my heartthrob, @VAMNit, class of ‘00 pic.twitter.com/gU538F6mzA
— 🇵🇷Lin-Manuel Miranda 🏳️🌈 (@Lin_Manuel) June 4, 2018How about this: one of these women was Lin-Manuel Miranda's first kiss. Famous!
In this pic is Clare, my first kiss, outside the computer lab on the 4th floor, I’m so sorry that was probably a mess Clare pic.twitter.com/OKJhDnlNAl
— 🇵🇷Lin-Manuel Miranda 🏳️🌈 (@Lin_Manuel) June 4, 2018The whole class got a shoutout!
Here’s ERRYBODY, tag yourselves pic.twitter.com/1m2LSpWfu0
— 🇵🇷Lin-Manuel Miranda 🏳️🌈 (@Lin_Manuel) June 4, 2018But the big surprise of the night for Miranda was discovering how close he came to Vanessa during his school years. It turned out they both wrote for the school paper in the same issue and were printed on the same page.
Okay, boarding another flight. When I get back...the shocking twist where I get PROOF Vanessa knew I existed back in school... pic.twitter.com/8LPekfRr7Y
— 🇵🇷Lin-Manuel Miranda 🏳️🌈 (@Lin_Manuel) June 4, 2018Oh HEY WI FI.
So now is where I thank my classmate Howard Braham and his lovely wife, who brought us a copy of our old school newspaper, What’s What. But not just ANY edition...
But an edition wherein my future wife and I had columns on THE SAME PAGE pic.twitter.com/nPoW5gbLBf
— 🇵🇷Lin-Manuel Miranda 🏳️🌈 (@Lin_Manuel) June 4, 2018Miranda's column was about hip-hop, of course.
Okay here’s my humor column, just me being extra about hip-hop, I haven’t changed a f*ckin iota (with some redacted names to protect nice folks who didn’t ask for this) pic.twitter.com/HcwREpcrna
— 🇵🇷Lin-Manuel Miranda 🏳️🌈 (@Lin_Manuel) June 4, 2018And then in Vanessa's, she actually mentions her future husband by name:
But THIS paragraph in Vanessa’s article is incontrovertible proof that she knew I was alive in high school pic.twitter.com/uRg07bpJEt
— 🇵🇷Lin-Manuel Miranda 🏳️🌈 (@Lin_Manuel) June 4, 2018It was meant to be:
So I left my 20 year reunion gratefully relearning what I already knew going in: Christ I’m lucky. pic.twitter.com/inOwpx4Qw2
— 🇵🇷Lin-Manuel Miranda 🏳️🌈 (@Lin_Manuel) June 4, 2018The man finds the perfect narrative wherever he goes.
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