PHOTO CALL: Ring Them Bells — In the Heights' Miranda at the NYSE

By Andrew Gans
25 Jun 2008

Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda — co-star and co-creator of the 2008 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, IIn the Heights/I> — rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange June 25.

In the Heights recently won four Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Choreography and Best Orchestrations.

The musical at the Richard Rodgers Theatre is described as such: "In the Heights is about a vibrant and tight-knit community at the top of the island of Manhattan. The music pulses with the hopes and dreams of three generations as they struggle to forge an identity in a neighborhood on the brink of transition."

Below: Lin-Manuel Miranda (l.), who rang the opening bell at the NYSE, with Larry Leibowitz, group executive vice president and head of U.S. Execution and Global Technology for NYSE Euronext.