Comments on: “In The Heights” Up For 13 Tony Awards http://guanabee.com/2008/05/in-the-heights-up-for-13-tony-awards/ Spicy Coverage: Gossip, media, culture and lifestyle for Latinos. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:21:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Maria_Elena http://guanabee.com/2008/05/in-the-heights-up-for-13-tony-awards/#comment-11131 Maria_Elena Wed, 14 May 2008 05:43:01 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=3336#comment-11131 The night I saw In The Heights it was packed and got a long standing ovation. I hope it sweeps - it was a very endearing story. But this is one of the reasons I like this site - no one else pays attention to this stuff. And the reason ITH was so great was because it treated its characters like regular people you and I know. No pregnant teens or druggies or any of that bullcrap. Things are still so bad. But I suppose we have to tell our own stories and not be fazed when others get it so <i>so</i> wrong. But Miranda grew up in Inwood, not Washington Heights, so I wonder why he set it there and not Inwood. Too boring a neighborhood? The night I saw In The Heights it was packed and got a long standing ovation. I hope it sweeps - it was a very endearing story.

But this is one of the reasons I like this site - no one else pays attention to this stuff. And the reason ITH was so great was because it treated its characters like regular people you and I know. No pregnant teens or druggies or any of that bullcrap. Things are still so bad. But I suppose we have to tell our own stories and not be fazed when others get it so so wrong. But Miranda grew up in Inwood, not Washington Heights, so I wonder why he set it there and not Inwood. Too boring a neighborhood?

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