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In the Heights Recording Session
April 17, 2008
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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Broadway for Big Kids, Beyond Spoonfuls of Sugar
March 21, 2008 Robin Pogrerbin
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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Heights Before Broadway
March 14, 2008 Melena Ryzik
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
March 12, 2008 Kenneth Jones
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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Page Six Magazine
Take the A Train
March 2, 2008
Playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda's way-uptown story In the Heights is the little musical that could - just a year after it debuted Off Broadway, the show officially hits the Great White Way on March 9. Catch it, and you'll want to head straight up to 181st Street.
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Yahoo Broadway Exclusive Videos
February 2008
Watch the first episode of an exclusive multi-part series about In the Heights. Follow the characters off stage as they prepare for their Broadway debut. Then, follow the cast up to Washington Heights and get an insider look at how a Broadway commercial is made!
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'In the Heights'
February 19, 2008
After its successful run off-broadway, this home-grown show is opening on the Great White Way.
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'In The Heights' hits the spotlight
February 13, 2008 Seth Kugel
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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JACKSON HEIGHTS
February 4, 2008 Tom Nondorf
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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You're 27. Here Are Millions to Stage Your Musical.
February 18, 2007 Campbell Robertson
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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A Bodacious Bodega
February 4, 2007 Robert Kahn
A few weeks ago, Lin-Manuel Miranda went for a wander around 181st Street in Washington Heights, not far from where he used to take piano lessons as a teenager. A deliveryman breezed by on a bicycle. It was a perfectly normal sight in the city, except for one detail.
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Light up on Washington Heights!
October 1, 2007 Una LaMarche
Lin-Manuel Miranda was sick of seeing Latino performers relegated to playing West Side Story thugs, so he wrote his own show-a freestyling, salsa- and hip-hop-filled love story to his neighborhood, his heritage, and his musical theater idols. Now In The Heights is going to Broadway, and its lyricist and star finds himself adjusting to life as the Next Big Thing.
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