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Posted: 1/14/07 at 6:26pm
I live in Washington Heights and have always thought my neighborhood had a sountrack all to itself. And this wonderful show encompasses the Hispanic spirit like no show has since "West Side Story".
It's also very good, even in its fifth preview. I LOVE the cast. Twenty minutes too long in the first act, some non-organic character leaps for plot sake in the second...besides that its pretty wonderful in a lot of ways.
A third of the score is modern hiphop/rap, a third pop, and a third straight up B'way. All with an underlying Latin beat.
A talented, 100% likable cast, the standout being Lin-Manuel Miranda who wrote the music and lyrics and is also the star. (If I had known that going in I may have turned and run screaming, but he's a true multi-talent.)
The preview prices for next week are 26.25 per ticket. Its cast is large for an off B'way musical so the producers (who also produced Rent, DeLa Guarda, High Fidelity and La Boheme) are obviously planning to move it to Broadway if it gets the reviews it deserves. So see it now for a quarter of the price you'll be paying for it in a couple months.
The show is at a new off'B'way space called 37 Arts on 37 St btw 9 & 10 Ave ( I assume its new, I've never heard of it).
It's also very good, even in its fifth preview. I LOVE the cast. Twenty minutes too long in the first act, some non-organic character leaps for plot sake in the second...besides that its pretty wonderful in a lot of ways.
A third of the score is modern hiphop/rap, a third pop, and a third straight up B'way. All with an underlying Latin beat.
A talented, 100% likable cast, the standout being Lin-Manuel Miranda who wrote the music and lyrics and is also the star. (If I had known that going in I may have turned and run screaming, but he's a true multi-talent.)
The preview prices for next week are 26.25 per ticket. Its cast is large for an off B'way musical so the producers (who also produced Rent, DeLa Guarda, High Fidelity and La Boheme) are obviously planning to move it to Broadway if it gets the reviews it deserves. So see it now for a quarter of the price you'll be paying for it in a couple months.
The show is at a new off'B'way space called 37 Arts on 37 St btw 9 & 10 Ave ( I assume its new, I've never heard of it).
