On Sunday night, the musical In the Heights made the move from Off-Broadway to the Great White Way to rapturous acclaim. Here are Lin Manuel-Miranda, the show’s star and co-creator, with Tony Award winner Priscilla Lopez, who plays middle-class mom Camila in the show.
Christopher Jackson and Mandy Gonzalez co-star as young lovers Benny and Nina.
Broadway veteran Olga Merediz steals the show as the feisty Abuela Claudia.
Robin De Jesus and Andrea Burns provide invaluable comic support as bodega employee Sonny and beauty shop owner Daniela.
Tony winner Sara Ramirez, on hiatus from her ABC-TV series Grey’s Anatomy, was one of the opening nighters.
Ramirez’s former Spamalot co-star David Hyde Pierce was also on hand for the big event.
The hilarious Edward Hibbert, currently co-starring with Pierce in the Broadway musical Curtains, was another attendee.
Here’s the multi-talented Michael Berresse, most recently seen on Broadway in A Chorus Line.
Tovah Feldshuh is wowing the crowds nightly at Feinstein’s at the Loews Regency with her show Tovah in a Nutshell.
Sarah Paulson, currently starring in the Roundabout Theatre’s Off-Broadway revival of Crimes of the Heart, came with Off-Broadway favorite Pedro Pascal.
Anthony Rapp will return to his signature role of Mark Cohen in Rent for the show’s national tour next year.
Here’s the lovely Zoe McLellan, one of the stars of the hit ABC drama Dirty Sexy Money.
Sherie Rene Scott — now starring as Ursula in The Little Mermaid — will perform her new one-woman show You May Now Worship Me as a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS on March 31 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre.
For TheaterMania’s review of In the Heights, click here.
For TheaterMania’s video feature on In the Heights, click here.
