He needed not worry on that account. At a post-show news conference, a hefty phalanx of local media peppered a clearly exhausted Miranda with questions on a variety of political topics of interest in Puerto Rico, from how to solve the vexing local crime problem to the potential for debt forgiveness, and from the likely future fiscal policy of the Trump administration to the campaign for statehood. Several times, Miranda apologized for having been too busy with a musical and a movie to keep up on the daily Puerto Rican news, but it was clear that he is regarded, increasingly, as in the words of one taxi driver, “Puerto Rico’s most powerful celebrity advocate.”