In the Heights 2008
Run Time:
2 hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission
Opened: March 9, 20082 hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission
Closing: January 09, 2011
In the Heights - 2008 Broadway History , Info & More
Richard Rodgers Theatre (Broadway)
226 W. 46th St. New York, NY 10036
Winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical.
Welcome to the kind of musical that comes around once in a generation. A musical that builds on the best traditions of theater while forging into fresh new territory. A musical about the importance of home, family and finding where you belong.
IN THE HEIGHTS tells the universal story of a vibrant community in Manhattan's Washington Heights - a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It's a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind.
Discover where you belong, at Broadway's new Tony Award-winning classic, IN THE HEIGHTS.
In the Heights - 2008 - Broadway Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR In the Heights
Friends And Lovers (scroll down for In The Heights)
7 / 10
Much like “West Side Story,” the musical purports to be about young heterosexual lovers, but its most dramatically fulfilling relationships are between men. Single and vaguely sleepy and hyperkinetic all at once, Usnavi can’t seem to connect with women, unlike his best friend, the infinitely more manly Benny (Christopher Jackson). The woman Benny loves is named Nina (Mandy Gonzales); her parents run the gypsy cab company where Benny works as a driver. The play is heavy with plot, but one quickly tunes out the mechanics of it for the charms of watching Usnavi hang with Benny in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge. Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes (who wrote the book) have rendered a simple and not at all offensive world, and brought little that is new to the familiar Broadway spectacle of earnest, smiling immigrants singing and dancing for our delectation.
In The Heights
8 / 10
Lin-Manuel Miranda isn't a one-man band, but he sure comes close: For this irresistible valentine to Latino life in upper Manhattan, the 28-year-old composed the hip-hop-heavy, salsa-rich music, wrote the lively lyrics name-checking everyone from Frodo to Cole Porter, and stars as Usnavi, a proud Dominicano who keeps the neighborhood in lottery tickets and café con leche. The show's flaws — random use of the word schmutz, Quiara Alegría Hudes' book (hair-gel humor?) — are few and easily forgivable; its virtues — Broadway-meets-MTV dance moves, the percussive, insanely infectious score — are abundant.
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In the Heights History
Other Productions of In the Heights
| 2005 | Waterford, CT (Regional) |
Reading Waterford, CT (Regional) |
| 2007 | Off-Broadway |
Original Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway |
| 2008 | Broadway |
Broadway Transfer Broadway |
| 2009 | US Tour |
First National Tour US Tour |
| 2011 | US Tour |
Work Light Productions National Tour US Tour |
| 2015 | West End |
West End Production West End |
| 2018 | Washington, DC (Regional) |
Kennedy Center Concert Production Washington, DC (Regional) |
| 2020 | Motion Picture |
2020 Motion Picture Motion Picture |
In the Heights - 2008 Broadway Awards and Nominations
Note: Award winners will appear on a background
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Pulitzer Prize | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Quiara Alegría Hudes |
| 2009 | The Pulitzer Prize | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 2009 | The Pulitzer Prize | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Quiara Alegría Hudes |
| 2009 | The Pulitzer Prize | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Quiara Alegria Hudes |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Andy Blankenbuehler |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | Paul Tazewell |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Thomas Kail |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Musical | Howell Binkley |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Jill Furman |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Sander Jacobs |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Robyn Goodman |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Walt Grossman |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Peter Fine |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Everett/Skipper |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Kevin McCollum |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Jeffrey Seller |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Orchestrations | Bill Sherman |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Orchestrations | Alex Lacamoire |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Robin De Jesus |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Olga Merediz |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | Anna Louizos |
| 2008 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Musical | Acme Sound Partners |
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