Thread by @Lin_Manuel

Bit of a night.
First time at the PrimeTime Emmys.
A short thread?

The tux by Richard James of Savile Row
(Our #hisdarkmaterials costume designer Caroline McCall procured it for me last week when she correctly realized I had not thought that far ahead, she is the best)

Got to see @KristenBell.
Already, this is a good night.
(It is 3:15pm in this picture.)

I meet the brilliant @JharrelJerome, who looked SO familiar in @ava’s heartbreaking work of art, @WhenTheySeeUs.
He tells me, “I don’t know if you remember me, but you came to my high school performance of In The Heights, I played Usnavi.”
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴

Oh my god yeah there we are 😭

https://twitter.com/cptainmrvei/status/1176111382770737153?s=12

Also, @MCamerlengo, I talked to Mario Lopez about the Zack/Slater fight.
Mario Lopez, to me: “I CHOREOGRPAHED THAT FIGHT.”👀

https://twitter.com/vegalteno/status/1175909147365085184?s=12

Get backstage. There is a chocolate company sponsored talent holding area where they can print your picture on a piece of chocolate.
What a sentence that is.
Aaaaaanyway...

Here is Andrew Scott on a piece of chocolate, a snack on a snack

We sit. My dad @Vegalteno says, “that guy looks just like El Meón!”
El Meón is his nickname for a childhood friend of mine who slept over and wet the bed when we were in first grade. FIRST GRADE! El Meón is 40 years old now.
No matter. To my dad, he’s El Meón forever.

El Meón translates to The Pisser.

I say, “Dad, that’s not El Meón, that’s Sam Rockwell, shhhh.”
I tell Sam the story.
He replies, “Well your dad’s not wrong, I am peeing my pants a little.”

I get to sit next to Michelle & @BusyPhilipps.
Aka the best seat in the house.
I think about when Michelle came over to watch #FosseVerdonFX, and could not bear to watch her scenes, but still knew all her lines from 8 months prior:

We watch @JharrelJerome make history. (🇩🇴!)

And then our corner of the room explodes when this happens:

https://twitter.com/thr/status/1175948150751674368?s=21

They send me back to present Writing for a Variety series. My patter begins “the dictionary definition of...” which is how I used to start English essays with minimum word counts in high school.
Anyway, I get to hand the award to Zazu, because John is Zazu in our house now

So many wonderful speeches. @AlexBorstein. @RuPaul. @PattyArquette. @theebillyporter. I am grateful grateful grateful grateful.

Straight to the airport after the show. I’m over NY now, headed back to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 for work.
Very proud producer. Heart full.
End thread.