In the Heights
| In the Heights | |
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| Music | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| Lyrics | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| Book | Quiara Alegría Hudes |
| Productions | 2005 Waterford 2007 Off-Broadway 2008 Broadway 2009 North American Tour International productions 2014 Off-West End 2015 West End |
| Awards |
Tony Award for Best Musical Tony Award for Best Score Tony Award for Best Orchestrations Tony Award for Best Choreography Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical Lortel Award for Best Musical Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music |
In the Heights is a musical with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes. The story is set over the course of three days, involving characters in the largely Dominican-American neighborhood of Washington Heights in New York City.
After productions at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut (2005) and Off-Broadway (2007), the show opened in a Broadway production in March 2008. This production was nominated for thirteen Tony Awards, winning four: Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Choreography (Andy Blankenbuehler), and Best Orchestrations (Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman). It won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. It was also nominated for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Miranda wrote the earliest draft of In the Heights in 1999, his sophomore year of college. After the show was accepted by Wesleyan University's student theater company Second Stage, Miranda worked on adding "freestyle rap ... bodegas, and salsa numbers." It played from April 27 to April 29, 2000. After seeing the play, three Wesleyan seniors and one alumnus, John Buffalo Mailer, Neil Stewart, Anthony Veneziale and Thomas Kail, approached Miranda and asked if the play could be expanded with a view to a Broadway production. In 2002, Miranda and Mailer worked with director Kail and wrote five separate drafts of In the Heights.
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