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Is Corbin Bleu having the best week ever? We think so. In addition to turning 21, the former High School Musical star officially opened in In The Heights on February 22, celebrating the two milestones at a party in his honor at Angus McIndoe restaurant.

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The cast of In The Heights came together to celebrate Corbin Bleu's official opening in the show with a party on Tuesday, February 23rd at Angus McIndoe.

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Actor Corbin Bleu, who stars in the Broadway musical In The Heights, speaks with TODAY's Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb about his Broadway debut.

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High School Musical star Corbin Bleu sits down with WPIX's Tamsen Fadal to give the inside scoop about his Broadway debut from his In the Heights audition to what his plans are after Broadway!

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You asked and he delivered! Watch the video to catch this newly minted Rialto star waxing poetic about his long love affair with the Great White Way, showing off why he should be in Avenue Q and getting tips on how to be the best 'Bleusnavi' he can be.

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Corbin Bleu is the first star of the popular High School Musical film franchise to hit Broadway as he steps into the role of bodega owner Usnavi in In The Heights. BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture his first curtain call!

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Corbin Bleu might not be a singing Wildcat anymore, but these days, the High School Musical star is taking his skills from the halls of East High to the streets of New York for his Broadway debut in the Tony-winning play In The Heights. The New York native admits that he couldn't help but relate to the show's lead character, whom he will play starting Monday (January 25).

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Corbin Bleu from Disney's High School Musical joins the Broadway cast as bodega owner and musical powerhouse, Usnavi! Corbin will perform during a limited 13 week engagement through Sunday, April 25, 2010.

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The 2008 Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical In The Heights, welcomes back original cast member Janet Dacal as "Nina" on Friday, February 19, 2010, and welcomes David Del Rio as "Sonny" on Monday, February 15, 2010.

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Kenny Ortega, the director of the High School Musical movies and Michael Jackson's This Is It, is attached to direct Universal's adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical In the Heights.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, who composed and wrote the musical as well as starred in it, is set to star in and produce the big-screen adaptation. Quiara Alegria Hudes, who wrote the play's book, is writing the script.

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On Monday, January 25, In The Heights will welcome High School Musical's Corbin Bleu as Broadway's new Usnavi! Corbin will make his Broadway debut and play a limited 13 week engagement through Sunday, April 25, 2010.

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Imagem Music, the Number #1 independent music publisher in the world, has acquired the worldwide stock and amateur rights to the 2008 Tony Award winning Best Musical, In The Heights, with a Tony Award winning score by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a Tony Award nominated book by Quiara Alegría Hudes.

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We're thrilled to announce the incredible cast of our national tour! In the Heights will star Kyle Beltran (Usnavi), Daniel Bolero (Kevin), Rogelio Douglas Jr. (Benny), Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer (Vanessa), Arielle Jacobs (Nina), Jose-Luis Lopez (Graffiti Pete), Genny Lis Padilla (Carla), Isabel Santiago (Daniela), Elise Santora (Abuela Claudia), Shaun Taylor-Corbett (Sonny) and Natalie Toro (Camila), plus an awesome ensemble of performers. The national tour will begin performances Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center.

Click here to watch Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo introduce the tour cast in this new video, "Run This Tour".

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In the Heights and Clear Channel NY are looking for a deserving student who dreams of "Graduating to New Heights." Now through Wednesday, September 9, entries and nominations to win the "Graduate to New Heights" scholarship will be accepted at any of the Clear Channel NY websites, using keyword "GRADUATE". Entrants will be asked in 100 words or less why they or someone they know deserves to win the "Graduate To New Heights" scholarship.

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This summer, In the Heights and Clear Channel NY raised money for the "Graduate to New Heights" scholarship by auctioning off five once-in-a-lifetime prize packages. Now, all the auctions have ended and the results have added up to one incredible scholarship of over $16,000.

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Have you ever dreamed of being in In the Heights? Now you can! For the final auction to raise money for our "Graduate to New Heights" Scholarship, you can bid on a chance to have a special walk-on cameo role in the show! Plus, you'll also get a pair of front-row VIP seats for your biggest fans. All proceeds go to helping someone achieve their dreams of higher education. Auction ends August 26!

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Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda will guest star this upcoming season on Fox's dramatic hit series "House". Miranda will appear in at least two episodes of the show's upcoming season as title character House's psychiatric hospital roommate. Hugh Lauries talks about Miranda and the first episodes of season 6 on STAGE TUBE!

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Actress Justina Machado, best known for her portrayal of Vanessa Diaz on the award-winning HBO series "Six Feet Under," is currently making her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.

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Seven time nominee and two time Tony Award-winner Chita Rivera visited the cast of In the Heights at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City on Thursday, July 16th, 2009. The Tony winning original star and creator of the show, Lin-Manuel Miranda, also dropped by to join the fun backstage.

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Inspired by the storyline of Nina Rosario, and her family's struggle to pay for her education, we've partnered with Clear Channel NY to create the "Graduate To New Heights Scholarship" to help a deserving student achieve their dreams of higher education.

To fund the scholarship, we'll be auctioning off five once-in-a-lifetime prize packages from In the Heights - including a chance to have dinner and see the show with LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA! Other packages include a private salsa lesson with Luis Salgado, a spa day and ladies' night package, a romantic date night, and the chance to have a special walk-on cameo role in the show!

To bid on the packages and find out more about the scholarship, visit www.graduatetonewheights.com..

Broadway composer, lyricist and performer Lin-Manuel Miranda had many dreams fulfilled. Last year, he won Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Original Score for In the Heights.

On a much smaller scale, he hosted a dream dinner conversation with a few fellow composers, sitting around a piano for NPR. His guests were composers John Kander and Tom Kitt.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda was recently interviewed on NBC's "The Today Show" about the Hispanic influence on pop culture, as part of a weeklong series called "We The People."

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Hang your flag out on display! Show everyone you're a Heights fan by posting a custom-made In the Heights widget for all to see on your profile or blog. Simply choose a template and select your favorite videos, images and music from the show, or upload your own. Then publish it to your profile or blog so your friends can grab it and redesign it for themselves.

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Watch the trailer for the new PBS documentary, In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams, premiering May 27 at 8PM (ET) on " Great Performances" (check local listings).

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The Paley Center for Media will host a special preview screening of the new documentary film In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams on Monday, May 4 at 6PM. A panel discussion featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mandy Gonzalez, and Christopher Jackson will follow the screening.

The documentary will premiere as a part of PBS's "Great Performances" on May 27 at 8PM (ET) on Channel 13 in the New York City area (check local listings).

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The Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights will begin its national tour this fall at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in Tampa, Florida on October 27. It will then play Atlanta, Minneapolis, Hartford, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Houston, Austin, Tempe, San Diego and Costa Mesa into August 2010.

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One of the things that makes In the Heights so authentic is that it incorporates some Spanish words and phrases native to the characters in the show. Join us on Twitter to learn Spanish from the best and brightest on the block, the barrio's own Nina Rosario!

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Broadway dreams can come true. Just ask 10-year-old Nicholas Dayton.

The suburban New Orleans fifth-grader was so taken with the music from the Tony-winning "In the Heights" that he asked his mom to film him performing one of the songs so that he could post it on YouTube.

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He may be a Connecticut native, but Robin De Jesus plays In the Heights' wisecracking, bodega-working sidekick Sonny with all the swagger of a born and bred New Yorker.

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Nominations for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards were announced Dec. 3. Nominees in the Best Musical Show Album category include Gypsy, In the Heights, The Little Mermaid, South Pacific and Young Frankenstein: The Musical.

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We had so much to be thankful for this year, including our chance to do an amazing live performance during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. If you missed us live, check out a video of the performance by clicking here.

OPEN SINGERS AUDITION

We're holding an open call for amazing singers and dancers in Miami Beach, December 9th and 10th.

Tuesday, December 9th from 2pm-5pm (Sign-in begins at 1:30pm)
The Byron Carlyle Theatre
Males and females, Latino and non-white performers, ages 18-60.

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OPEN DANCERS AUDITION

Wednesday, December 10th at 10am sharp (Sign-in begins at 9:30am)
The Byron Carlyle Theatre
Males and females, all ethnicities, ages 18-60.
Must be technically strong dancers and good singers.

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Britney Spears gets up close and personal with In the Heights creator/actor Lin-Manuel Miranda backstage after taking in a showing of the Broadway hit at the Richard Rogers Theatre in New York City on Tuesday night.

Britney Spears gets up close and personal with In the Heights creator/actor Lin-Manuel Miranda backstage after taking in a showing of the Broadway hit at the Richard Rogers Theatre in New York City on Tuesday night.

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Issue includes an interview with Andy Blankenbuehler, In the Heights Choreographer.

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Cast members from Broadway's In the Heights will head uptown to the Lincoln Triangle Barnes and Noble in September.

In the Heights will perform highlights from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical and sign copies of the Ghostlight Records cast recording at 4:30pm on September 16.

The Barnes and Noble at Lincoln Triangle is located at 1972 Broadway at 66th Street in Manhattan.

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J. Lo and her husband Marc Anthony dropped into the Richard Rogers Theatre for the “Waiting for Tonight” singer's last birthday celebration before the big 4-0 and enjoyed clowning around with the show's cast.

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Be it a lottery or a raffle or any other game of chance, I am one of those people who never win.

And I certainly did not expect to end a life-long losing streak on Sunday, even after my older daughter, Sinead, came across a four-leaf clover in the Great Meadow at Prospect Park.

She presented the lucky charm to me as a Father's Day gift, but still I harbored no expectations as we set off to the ticket lottery held before each performance of "In the Heights," which on that day happened to be up for a slew of Tony Awards.

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Tonight, at the 2008 Tony Awards, South Pacific lead the pack with 7 wins, followed by August: Osage County with 5, In the Heights with 4, Gypsy with 3, Boeing-Boeing and 39 Steps with 2, and Les Liasons Dangereuses, Passing Strange and The Seafarer with 1.

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In the Heights won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, which capped an evening in which it won four awards. Click to read more.

Read the acceptance speeches from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jill Furman, Andy Blankenbuehler and Alex Lacamoire HERE!

The original double-disc cast recording of In the Heights debuted at number one on Billboard's Cast Album chart. The recording also made it into Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart at number 82.

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Playbill Radio takes its microphones into the studio where the cast of the new Broadway musical In the Heights is recording its original cast album. Sitting at the elbows of the actors, producers and writers, we listen in as they bring together what promises to be one of the liveliest cast albums ever.

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One musical knocked our socks off, and it was the newest of the lot: “In the Heights,” which opened this month. The show, which chronicles the life of a Washington Heights neighborhood, arguably has everything: tuneful songs that range from rap to merengue, a straightforward story with sympathetic characters, and an ensemble that combines both grace and grit.

It's a rose-tinted rendition of life in the barrio — everyone looks happy, everything looks clean — the bodega, the beauty salon, the shaved ice and café con leche. But the exchange I overheard between my kids as we filed out after the curtain call speaks for itself.

SON: I think it was almost flawless.

DAUGHTER: What's flawless mean?

SON: Perfect.

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To be perfectly clear, Lin-Manuel Miranda did not grow up in Washington Heights, the physical and spiritual setting of his musical "In the Heights," which opened on Broadway this week. He was raised in Inwood, an area some blocks north with a similar landscape of immigrants, Spanish speakers and urban decay softened by panoramic vistas. Why not stage a musical there?

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Two-Disc In the Heights Cast Album Will Record March 23-24 for June 3 Release

The In the Heights Original Cast Recording will be available in a two-disc album from Ghostlight Records on June 3, 2008. The recording session is set for March 23-24. The album will be produced by popular Latin and world music producer Andrew Levin with Ghostlight founder Kurt Deutsch and is expected to have 23 tracks.

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After its successful run off-broadway, this home-grown show is opening on the Great White Way.

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The "In the Heights" sign is already up on the Richard Rodgers Theater on W. 46th St. just off Times Square, clearly visible to the masses passing by every day. Just as it was when the show played at the Off-Broadway 37 Arts Theater last year, "HEIGHTS" is written in a font that could only be called Bodega Bold. Unwritten on the sign, but obvious to anyone who's bought a 25-cent bag of platanitos: Latinos are back on Broadway.

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Christopher Jackson calls himself a "small-town boy who found himself in the city, trying to scratch out a place for himself." This is not unlike his character, Benny, in In the Heights, who is the outsider trying to find his niche in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights. The small-town Jackson hails from is Cairo, IL, where he notes fewer people live than can be found wandering on 42nd Street in a given five-minute period. Like Benny, Jackson grew up without a father around, but his music teacher mother got him singing and a schoolteacher helped push him towards acting. He is married, with a three-year-old son, and was happy to speak about moving with The Heights from Off-Broadway to The Big Show.

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It was late and cold, and outside the nightclub Pacha in far west Midtown a boyish-looking man in a suit and sneakers was walking up to the front doors. Inside, the club was crowded: an eight-piece Latin band was playing, people were dancing and drinking tequila cocktails; it was, as little as the scene may have looked it, an opening-night party for a new Off-Broadway musical.

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