In the Heights: ACT THREE?!

A posting from a previous thread was too rich to let go:

"For me one that really falls apart is "In the Heights" aside from the fact that it's depressing, there isn't any resolution. What happens with Nina and Benny? What happens between Nina's Father and Benny? What about Usnavi and Vanessa? And why doesn't Priscilla Lopez get to sing more?"

For all of us who LOVE In the Heights, let's do some quick brainstorming:

What DOES happen to Nina and Benny?
What happens between Benny and Nina's dad?
How does Nina finally pay for Stanford?
Will Priscilla Lopez ever sing again?
Will Graffiti Pete ever get arrested?
Will that piragua guy make it big on the FOOD NETWORK?
And how long will it take Robin de Jesus' character to finally COME OUT O' THE FREAKIN' CLOSET and express his true love for his cousin, Usnavi?!?!

Let's be creative here, folks. Lin-Miranda & the rest of the cast will LOVE it!

I highly doubt Lin Manuel would think including an incestuous love between cousins would be a good idea.

You don't need an Act 3 to answer these questions:

SPOLER ALERT

What DOES happen to Nina and Benny? -- They are staying together and have a long distance relationship while she's at school. They have the entire summer to be together and have more "sunrises," and they will visit during the school year. Listen to the song "When the sun goes down"


What happens between Benny and Nina's dad? -- Benny leaves the business to start his own, and they still don't get along. But Nina tells her father to suck it up because BEnny is stil l a good person adn they are going to be together whether he likes it or not.


How does Nina finally pay for Stanford? --Her parents sell Rosario's

Will Priscilla Lopez ever sing again? -- In life, yes. In the show, no.

Will Graffiti Pete ever get arrested? -- Fine you can't answer this question, but do you really need an Act 3 for this? He did a good deed by painting the grate, and now Usnavi has his back. So if he did go to jail, Usnavi would pay is bail :)

Will that piragua guy make it big on the FOOD NETWORK? -- wtf?

And how long will it take Robin de Jesus' character to finally COME OUT O' THE FREAKIN' CLOSET and express his true love for his cousin, Usnavi?!?! -- See previous answer.



If there was an Act 3, or Act 2 was lengthened, I would like to see how the neighborhood stays together. Yes, Usnavi stays, but everyone else is gone! Sure, they all live there, but will the street be like during the day? A little more about Vanessa and Usnavi would be nice. I'd like to see their second date.

Updated On: 7/30/08 at 08:34 AM

this show allows us to leave the theatre and ponder the questions they did not answer, i love not having all the answers because it gives the audience member a chance to have it end the way they want. Lin actually does answer a lot of the questions (see previous posts) but the ones he did not answer were left for the audience to interpret.

I thought it helped the realism of the story by not having definite answers. Real life doesn't just stop once you've concluded one part of your story. There was a narrative beginning, middle, and end. I understand how stories that start, continue, then just stop without any resolution can be frustrating, but this wasn't 'Beyond Black' or that Italian novel I read. There was an end. Not an end*ing*, just an end.

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I quote:

"And how long will it take Robin de Jesus' character to finally COME OUT O' THE FREAKIN' CLOSET and express his true love for his cousin, Usnavi?!?!"

As I said before:

I highly doubt Lin Manuel would think including an incestuous love between cousins would be a good idea.

That is the question I was referring to, husk_charmer.

Testing1232: Well, yeah, but Abuela's money could have paid for most of it.

Though I'm not sure if even that would have been enough.

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<< Testing1232: Well, yeah, but Abuela's money could have paid for most of it.

Though I'm not sure if even that would have been enough. >>

But that is my point.... if Abuela's money would have paid for it, Kevin (dad) would have felt "useless" again---

Kevin NEEDED to feel that sense of purpose (paying for the tuition)

I'm just saying that I don't think that selling the family business would be enough for four years of tuition for a private, out of-state school plus other college expenses.

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Updated On: 7/30/08 at 05:29 PM

See, I disagree.

You get the In The Heights moral at the end. Usnavi is home, and he realizes how important family is. He is home. He found his island. He realizes he doesn't need to go to Caribbean paradise to be happy and escape his troubles. Being at home with his friends and family does just that. Sure, it's not complete but neither is RENT. RENT, we get the moral, but the show could continue. It shouldn't and doesn't, and I think the same goes for ITH.