Monday, March 19, 2018

Lin-Manuel Miranda & Ben Platt Team Up For Hamilton-Dear Evan Hansen Mashup: "Found / Tonight"


Two Tony Award winners singing a mashup of two songs from back-to-back Tony Award winning scores and a portion of the proceeds go to help the March for Our Lives initiative.

Nope - can't find a thing wrong with that.

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt finally team up for a mash-up of Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen.

The new single “Found/Tonight,” arranged by Alex Lacamoire, brings together Hamilton's “The Story of Tonight” with Dear Evan Hansen's “You Will Be Found,” adding up to a truly anthemic theme song for the upcoming nationwide protest against gun violence, March for Our Lives.

USA Today sets up the two songs that become musical magic:

"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.

"You Will Be Found," from the 2017 Tony winner for best musical Dear Evan Hansen, is a speech about loneliness and friendship intended to keep alive the memory of a high school pal who committed suicide.

And here's how it comes together:

Even when the dark comes crashing through, when you need a friend to carry you,
When you're broken on the ground, you will be found
So let the sun come streaming in cause you'll reach up and you'll rise again,
If you only look around, you will be found

And when our children tell their story, they'll tell the story of tonight
No matter what they tell you tomorrow there'll be more of us
Telling the story of tonight 

Bonus points for Platt getting to sing the word "tonight" as he's publicly campaigning to play "Tony" in the upcoming movie remake of West Side Story.

Watch below. Click here to listen on Spotify or download from iTunes.



One of the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where last month's devastating gun massacre left 17 dead, clearly got the feels intended as he promoted the song on Twitter:



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