In the Heights Wins Grammy for Best Musical Show Album

In the Heights wins the Grammy for Best Musical Show Album.

http://www.grammy.com/

The nominees were:

Best Musical Show Album

Gypsy
Robert Sher, producer (Jule Styne, composer; Stephen Sondheim, lyricist) (2008 Broadway Cast With Patti LuPone & Others)
[Time Life]

In The Heights
Kurt Deutsch, Alex Lacamoire, Andrés Levin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Joel Moss & Bill Sherman, producers; Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer/lyricist (Original Broadway Cast With Lin-Manuel Miranda And Others)
[Razor & Tie Entertainment/Ghostlight Records]

The Little Mermaid
Bruce Botnick, Michael Kosarin, Alan Menken & Chris Montan, producers; Alan Menken, composer; Glenn Slater, lyricist (Howard Ashman, lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast With Sierra Boggess, Tituss Burgess & Others)
[Walt Disney Records]

South Pacific
David Caddick, David Lai & Ted Sperling, producers (Richard Rodgers, composer; Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist) (New Broadway Cast With Kelli O'Hara, Paulo Szot & Others)
[Masterworks Broadway]

Young Frankenstein; The Musical
Doug Besterman, producer; Mel Brooks, composer/lyricist (Original Broadway Cast With Roger Bart, Megan Mullally, Sutton Foster & Others)
[Decca Broadway]

Updated On: 2/8/09 at 04:34 PM

did they give it out already?

In the Heights :)

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in the heights WINNA

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They deserved it.

It deserved to be either ITH or SOUTH PACIFIC.

ITH was beautifully produced (and is also the first recording of this innovative and truly wonderful score) so it deserved it.

I have to plug SOUTH PACIFIC's OBCR here and say if you haven't purchased it yet, do it. I enjoyed the show but didn't think it was as masterful as everyone claims it to be (GYPSY was a better revival IMO) but the OBCR is undoubtedly fantastic. In my mind it might be the finest recording of the score to date...which is saying a lot.

I actually thought it was going to be between IN THE HEIGHTS and GYPSY. I love the sound quality on both of those recordings, while SOUTH PACIFIC sounded better in the theater to me.

In any case, didn't SPRING AWAKENING (Best Musical 2007) win the Grammy last year? And IN THE HEIGHTS (Best Musical 200 won this year. Do I see a trend developing?

A great year for cast recordings. Personally, I would've gone with the lush, ultimate Gypsy recording (even though I like In the Heights better).

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Will Billy Elliot's album be eligible for the Grammy Awards next year? If so, I think the trend I posted about in my last post will be broken...

"They'll never award a deserving recording over the big hit of the year"

I'm beginning to think that this is the case...these award shows are all about politics

Very well deserved.
It will give a little boost to its already OK box office.
'Gypsy' and 'Young Frankenstein' didn't even deserve a nod.
Congrats to the company.

Woohoo!

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Yes!! The show and Lin totally deserve this!

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