Societies 2017 Freedom Award for his work on the musical hamilton. A film version of the musical begins streaming on the disney plus service on friday. This ceremony is about 35 minutes. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, members of the senate who are here, members of the house of representatives, and all of you who have come here tonight to join with us as we celebrate the awarding of the Freedom Award to Linmanuel Miranda. I am the president and ceo of the u. S. Capital Historical Society and a former member of congress from connecticut. This evening we pay tribute, as i mentioned, to Linmanuel Miranda, an extraordinarily talented composer, lyricist, playwright, and actor. As a Historical Society we usually honor historians. Last year we honor David Mccullough with our Freedom Award. This year we honor an artist to transform history into the hit musical, hamilton. With a hiphop score, catchy lyrics and contemporary choreography, americans of all generations and back wells are learnin
With him, is in those cases where he felt obliged to use dramatic license, he would always try to incorporate as many authentic elements into the scene as he could even if he had changed something. Brian if you get on the website today, first of all, you cant buy tickets. Theyre sold out for how far are they sold out . Ron sold out as we talked, through january 2017. Brian so all of this year and then january of next year. Ron yeah. Brian but if you get on and get on these resale websites, 1000 might get you a ticket. Ron yeah, i mean and people have been scalping tickets for 1,500 to 2000, 2500 a ticket. They are certainly routinely scalping for 1000 or 1,500 a ticket. Brian what do you think of that . Ron well, you know, its been frustrating for us because we didnt create this show exclusively for Hedge Fund Managers and private equity [laughter] people, and we have been doing what is within our power to try to offset that. For instance, theres a lottery every night, where the entire
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Italian composers the Ennio Morricone best known for his western film scores has died at the age of 91. Still strikes. Be leaving anytime soon according to the clubs president. India has surged past russia with about 700000 coronavirus cases making it now the 3rd west head country in the wild globally nearly 11 and a half 1000000 people are now confirmed to have had the virus well india is reporting close to 25000 new cases every day and more than 19000 people have already died there so far many cities are now tightening restrictions to try to halt a new spike in cases in australia the border between its 2 most populous states is due to close on tuesday theres been a rise in cases in victoria prompting the decision to shut the border with New South Wales indefinitely and latin america now accounts for about hoffas of all new infections cases that have tripled in just a month with brazil and mexico the west affected nations. Well lets begin our coverage this hour in new delhi and theres