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Wilson Jermaine Heredia won a Tony for playing Angel. There was no way the theater was ever going to go backwards after that, he said. You know it was going to be forever, forever changed, and it showed people a new perspective on how to tell stories. Heredia was 23 years old and just a couple of years out of Hunter College when he auditioned for the show. He had no musical theater training whatsoever. I never saw anyone on Broadway that even looked like me, he said. But the show, based on the opera La Boheme that was written in the 1890s, was set on the Lower East Side at the end of the 20th century and producers were looking far afield for new talent. ....