Diane and I finally sat down and watched In the Heights on HBO Max. We toyed with the idea of seeing In the Heights in one of our local AMC or Regal Theaters, but opted to stay home instead.
The play version of In the Heights won the Tony for Best Musical and the touring company arrived at Shea’s Theater in Buffalo in 2010. The movie version makes some changes but at its essence, the story is about making it in America. Lin-Manuel Miranda of Hamilton fame wrote this joyous ode to Washington Heights and launched his career (Miranda has a few cameos as the Piragua Guy in this movie version of In the Heights).
Movie director Jon M. Chu, with a screenplay by Quiara Alegria Hudes, celebrates the Latino immigrant experience mostly in song and dance sequences. If you’re looking for a movie as a spectacle, In the Heights delivers Big Time. GRADE: B+
We’ll get around to it, I’m sure. Never saw the musical when it was playing here. Also, Jackie and I are apparently in the tiny minority with no interest in HAMILTON.
There, I said it.
Jeff, HAMILTON broke a lot of barriers. It will go down in theater history. But will it be popular in a 100 years?
What musical is? But yes, it will be popular for a long time, because it’s good.
Rick, I like the IN THE HEIGHTS soundtrack.
Despite my general dislike of movie musicals I kept thinking I’d give this a try, but thinking about it was as far as I got. And I’ll join Jeff in the “no interest in HAMILTON” minority.
Michael, we watched IN THE HEIGHTS before it expired on HBO Max. Disney+ gained a lot of subscribers when they showed HAMILTON.
I liked it a lot–at the movie theater. I had seen a local production of it so was primed to enjoy it and I did. I also liked HAMILTON.
Patti, we’re about to see HAMILTON for the fourth time when it comes to Buffalo this Fall.