Neil Patrick Harris with a Dumeril's Boa and a Diamond Python | Vanity Fair by Lin-Manuel Miranda

It's the rare story"Child Star Becomes Bigger Star"but Neil Patrick Harris made Doogie Howser, M.D. a springboard to his great love, musical theater, and then How I Met Your Mother. As Harris leads Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway (and stars in A Million Ways to Die in the West), actor-lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda explains why N.P.H. is such a mesmerizing act. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz.

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