Taking It To ‘The Heights’ – won the Tony award for best musical, one of four it won overall. From: courant.com

In the Heights,” the little musical that began on Wesleyan University’s Middletown campus eight years ago and matured at Waterford’s O’Neill Theater Center, captured the top prize at the annual Tony Awards Sunday night, honoring the best of the 2007-08 Broadway season.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, who as a student in Middletown created the musical based on the Hispanic neighborhood where he grew up in New York’s Washington Heights, also won for best original score.

A visibly thrilled Miranda, 28, accepted his composing award with a special rap that delighted the audience at Radio City Music Hall: “I used to dream about this moment; now I’m in it. Tell the conductor to hold the baton a minute. … Mr. Sondheim, look, I made a hat where there never was a hat, and a Latin hat at that.”"*

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