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Lin-Manuel Miranda on his first viewing of "West Side Story"

Season 35

Lin-Manuel Miranda describes discovering Rita Moreno and seeing "West Side Story" for the first time, and realizing it was about Puerto Rican New Yorkers. "It was a gamechanger."

AIR DATE 10/5/21

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