Lin-Manuel Miranda is fitting in on Broadway – ‘In the Heights’ is a bright love letter to his old stamping ground, the largely Latino community of Washington Heights in Manhattan.

IN 1998, high school senior Lin-Manuel Miranda saw “The Capeman” three times during previews, just before the highly anticipated Paul Simon musical crashed and burned on Broadway. Starring Rubén Blades and Marc Anthony, the show, in Miranda’s opinion, was as exhilarating as it was frustrating. All that extraordinary Latino talent! But in the service of what? A musical based on a real-life gang slaying by a Puerto Rican-born petty criminal?

“I was deeply conflicted,” the 28-year-old actor-composer recalls a decade later. “You know that story about Stephen Sondheim, when he was a young intern on the musical ‘Allegro’? It was one of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s rare flops, and Sondheim’s often said that when he started writing musicals, he was always trying to fix ‘Allegro.’ Well, when I started writing ‘In the Heights,’ the impulse was to try to fix ‘Capeman.’ “”*

*From: www.calendarlive.com
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