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Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning musical is an ode to the neighborhood near where he grew up. Now a movie musical, the film's director, cinematographer and choreographer discuss the new adaptation.

Austin 360 When I saw the trailer for “In the Heights”? Wet lil’ tear ducts. “We we have got to see that,” I whispered to whoever was sitting next to me. (This was pre-pandemic; would you remember?) What was the movie about? Who were the characters singing from their chests in lavish, swirling production numbers that screamed “New York” louder than Rosie Perez reading off subway stops?  Could not tell you. Such is the power of the movie musical.   Now, isolation i...

‘In The Heights’ Dances From The Stage, To The Streets, To The Screen

Lin-Manuel Mirandas Tony-winning musical is an ode to the neighborhood near where he grew up. Now a movie musical, the films director, cinematographer and choreographer discuss the new adaptation.

Which jaw-dropping musical number had over 600 extras and multiple safety issues? Chu filled us in on that and much more!

Last modified on Wed 9 Jun 2021 12.17 EDT The Gold Diggers of 1933 The Gold Diggers of 1933 is a film of quarters, and not just the giant coins that cover the chorus line’s modesty. Four wisecracking kids are dying to make it on Broadway: Joan Blondell is a singer, Ginger Rogers a sex kitten, Ruby Keeler a sweetheart and Aline MacMahon has the jokes. But the shows they hustle into close before they open. As Rogers snarls, it’s “the depression, dearie”. But then Dick Powell changes their...

In our In the Heights director interview, Jon M. Chu shares why you need to see this film in a theater and talks about his fight to preserve one key song.

Hats off, a triumph. This Rosenkavalier is not only a tribute to the standards now achievable by the best of country house opera, but also to their resilience.

There’s a quieter moment in the opening of “In the Heights” when Usnavi, played by Anthony Ramos, shares his secret dream: He feels stuck to the bodega his parents left

There’s a quieter moment in the opening of “In the Heights” when Usnavi, played by Anthony Ramos, shares his secret dream: He feels stuck to the bodega his parents left him, and longs to return to the Dominican Republic. He reveals this while staring out the store window at a crowd of dancers, visible to the viewer in the window’s reflection. This shot — combining footage of 75 performers on location in Washington Heights, and Ramos singing through a movie set’s glassless window �...