NewsPHOTO RECAP: Looking Back at In the Heights' Broadway Closing NightIn the Heights, the groundbreaking musical created by Latino American writers, populated by an eclectic cast including Latino American performers and offering a slice of the Latino American experience, ended its Broadway run Jan. 9, 2011.
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PHOTO RECAP: Looking Back at In the Heights' Broadway Closing Night
PHOTO RECAP: Looking Back at In the Heights' Broadway Closing Night
In the Heights, the groundbreaking musical created by Latino American writers, populated by an eclectic cast including Latino American performers and offering a slice of the Latino American experience, ended its Broadway run Jan. 9, 2011.
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Priscilla Lopez, Marcy Harriell, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Christopher Jackson, Arielle Jacobs, Andrea Burns, Courtney Reed, Seth Stewart and the cast of In The Heights
The show won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical.
Cooked up by actor-writer Lin-Manuel Miranda when he was a student at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, the show opened on Broadway March 9, 2008.
Miranda, who won the Tony for Best Score for the show, was also nominated as Best Actor in a Musical. He rejoined the cast on Dec. 25 for the final two weeks of the run.
Miranda's kinetic Usnavi is a Dominican bodega owner who guides us through a couple of days in the life of friends, family and lovers in the Latino-populated northern Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights.
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.
