Lin-Manuel Miranda tweets about passing of Abuela Mundi

Lin-Manuel Miranda took to Twitter on Monday to announce the death of his beloved Abuela Mundi.

The 37-year-old Broadway star posted four black-and-white images of her including one where he’s hugging her in a hospital bed.

‘Abuela Mundi passed away this Christmas morning. I may have more words in the days to come but for now my heart is in pieces and that’s where it’s gonna be for a bit,’ Miranda wrote along with the photos. 

Beloved figure: Lin-Manuel Miranda took to Twitter on Monday to announce that his beloved Abuela Mundi had died on Christmas morning

Abuela means ‘grandmother’ in Spanish but Abuela Mundi was not Miranda’s biological grandmother.

She was, however, his Puerto Rican nanny and lived with his family for decades.

The influential figure was the basis for his lottery-playing ‘Abuela’ Claudia character in his critically acclaimed Broadway musical In The Heights.

Miranda played the lead character Usnavi who is looked after by Abuela Claudia after his parents died. 

Broadway star: The Hamilton star, shown earlier this month in London, based a character in his play In The Heights on Abuela Mundi

Broadway star: The Hamilton star, shown earlier this month in London, based a character in his play In The Heights on Abuela Mundi

He told the Los Angeles Times in 2008 about the real-life Mundi.

‘She’s the most impatient, irritable and famously short-tempered woman you’ll ever meet in your life, a real curmudgeon. The only similarities are that she plays the numbers every day. And that we love her,’ he said.

Miranda also noted on Facebook in February 2015 that Mundi was going to see a matinee of his hit Broadway show Hamilton. 

Tender moment: Miranda was shown in a photo hugging Abuela Mundi

Tender moment: Miranda was shown in a photo hugging Abuela Mundi

Sweet smile: Abuela Mundi was shown smiling in a black-and-white photo

Sweet smile: Abuela Mundi was shown smiling in a black-and-white photo

‘Abuela Mundi is seeing the mat. Hope she likes Hamilton better than Heights, to which she said,’you had me win the lotto and you KILLED ME?’,’ he wrote.

In The Heights after productions in Connecticut and Off-Broadway opened as a Broadway production in March 2008.

It was nominated for 13 Tony Awards and won four, including: Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Choreography and Best Orchestrations.

In The Heights also won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and was nominated for a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. 

Critically acclaimed: Abuela Mundi was the basis for the 'Abuela' Claudia character in the Broadway musical In The Heights

Critically acclaimed: Abuela Mundi was the basis for the ‘Abuela’ Claudia character in the Broadway musical In The Heights

Growing family: Father-of-one Miranda, shown with pregnant wife Vanessa Nadal earlier this month in London, said his heart was in pieces after the passing of his beloved Abuela Mundi

Growing family: Father-of-one Miranda, shown with pregnant wife Vanessa Nadal earlier this month in London, said his heart was in pieces after the passing of his beloved Abuela Mundi

 



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