In the Heights Recoups Investment
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The Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, currently playing the Richard Rodgers Theater, has recouped its $10 million investment within ten months of its Broadway opening on March 9, 2008.
The show is directed by Thomas Kail, with choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler. Featuring music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who plays Usnavi, and a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes, In the Heights is about a vibrant and tight-knit community at the top of the island of Manhattan, and focuses on the hopes and dreams of three generations as they struggle to forge an identity in a neighborhood on the brink of transition.
The show won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, as well as Tonys for Best Score, Best Choreography, and Best Orchestrations. It also received a 2008 Grammy Award nomination for the original cast album.
In addition to Miranda, the musical currently stars Andréa Burns, Janet Dacal, Robin De Jesús, Mandy Gonzalez, Marcy Harriell, Christopher Jackson, Priscilla Lopez, Olga Merediz, Rick Négron, and Seth Stewart leading a cast of 28 that features Tony Chiroldes, Rosie Lani Fiedelman, Afra Hines, Marcus Paul James, Nina Lafarga, Doreen Montalvo, Javier Muñoz, Krysta Rodriguez, Eliseo Román, Luis Salgado, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Rickey Tripp, Michael Balderrama, Joshua Henry, Stephanie Klemons, Jon Rua, and Elisa Santora.
For more information visit www.intheheightsthemusical.com.
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