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Lin-Manuel Miranda The creator of Hamilton on dancing through Mary Poppins Returns, raising boys and returning to the stage in Puerto Rico

Did you watch Mary Poppins as a kid? I had the VHS cassette and loved the first two-thirds, but “Feed the Birds” would always make me too sad and then I would turn it off.

How did you step into your joyful character, Jack, a lamplighter? My job in this film is to understand the childhood whimsy that Mary Poppins brings to every situation and

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