Check out this incredible mashup of two BEAUTIFUL songs with poignant messages from two of. ∙ He received a Golden Globe nomination for his starring role on the streaming series The Politician. Found Tonight Official Video Lin-Manuel Miranda & Ben Platt. ∙ His 2019 debut album, Sing to Me Instead, debuted in the Top 20 of the Billboard 200.

∙ In 2018, he and Lin-Manuel Miranda teamed up for a benefit song called “Found / Tonight” which mashed up music from Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen.

1 on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart in 2017 with “Waving Through a Window,” which appeared on the Grammy-winning Dear Evan Hansen cast soundtrack. ∙ For his Dear Evan Hansen role, he won a Tony for Best Actor in a Musical, and he became the youngest person ever to win the Drama League’s Distinguished Performance Award. ∙ At age 9, Platt kicked off his musical career with a role in a production of The Music Man at Los Angeles’ famed Hollywood Bowl. You Will Be Found, from the 2017 Tony winner for best musical, is a speech about loneliness and friendship intended to keep alive the memory of a high school pal who committed suicide.Įmma Gonzalez and David Hogg, two of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who have become the public faces of March for Our Lives, smiled as they watched Miranda and Platt's video together from the green room at CBS This Morning, where they were booked to speak ahead of the march on Washington.Ben Platt is an actor and songwriter known for portraying Evan Hansen in the Broadway run of Dear Evan Hansen and for his role in the movie Pitch Perfect.

The Story of Tonight, from Hamilton, is sung by a young Alexander Hamilton, Marquis de Lafayette, John Laurens and Hercules Mulligan, who share a round of drinks and camaraderie before joining the American Revolution. What is the significance of the two songs? Part of the proceeds from the track, which is available on iTunes, Apple Music Spotify, YouTube, Google Play and Amazon Music, will go to the March for Our Lives initiative, which is gearing for its march on Washington this Saturday calling for an end to gun violence and mass shooting in schools. After giving fans a Hamilton polka last month, Lin-Manuel Miranda gets serious with his March offering: a mash-up of The Story of Tonight with Dear Evan Hansen's track You Will Be Found, with the musical's star, fellow Tony winner Ben Platt.

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