In the Heights
featured on the cover of Movmnt Magazine

September 10, 2008

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

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In the Heights to Appear at Barnes and Noble in September
August 4, 2008

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.

Click here or call 212-595-6859 for more information.



Jennifer Lopez: Birthday on Broadway
July 25, 2008

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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Lifelong loser finally wins something: seats for 'In the Heights'

June 16, 2008

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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In The Heights Wins Best Musical - Look Inside For Complete List of Tony Winners!!!
June 16, 2008

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.

Click here for the complete list of Tony Winners.

In the Heights, August: Osage County, South Pacific Win Big at 2008 Tony Awards
June 16, 2008

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.

Thank You! The 2008 Tony Award Acceptance Speeches
June 16, 2008

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

In the Heights Cast CD Debuts at #1 on Billboard Chart
June 12, 2008

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.

Read more at Broadway.com



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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the full article



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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