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#277

re: The Official 'In The Heights' Love Thread....

Posted: 4/15/08 at 1:05am

Cause God knows a musical is never complete without a good old fashioned rape!

Ok so the review that you were responding to was just dumb, but *this* response kinda made me laugh, not even gonna lie... and, it also made me go to the nyc.gov website, just because I am that strange, and there were actually more rapes reported in the UES last week than in Washington Heights... but I still would have expected more from a review in The Advocate, but maybe that's just me...
#278

re: The Official 'In The Heights' Love Thread....

Posted: 4/15/08 at 1:30am

hehe. It was such a ridiculous sentence that deserved to be mocked. I am just continually disappointed with the reviewers who are surprised that someone who is Latino would write a musical that shows the positive side of our culture. Like we needed yet *another* example of gang violence among Latinos. It's refreshing to have a different voice, that's nonetheless true to who we are.

And, really, the whole rape thing is so insanely offensive and ridiculous. As is the phrasing, which, again just makes it seem like he *wanted* to see rapes on a Broadway stage. And thanks for researching those statistics. Ideas of violence in El Barrio are grossly exaggerated by the media. Not that it doesn't happen, but, please. I have family who lives there, and I grew up in PR, which has one of the highest crime rates in the US (in the polls that count us as a US territory). Yet I never experienced these things in my daily life.

I too would've expected better from The Advocate. But at this point, I'm not surprised anymore.
#281

re: The Official 'In The Heights' Love Thread....

Posted: 4/15/08 at 10:19am

^^ yep, June 3rd is the release date, but if you order it at the theatre you'll get it in May sometime- I am choosing to pay $35 for it (vs $16.99 plus shipping on amazon.com) so that I can get it a month earlier- *that* is how much I want it, lol.
#283

re: The Official 'In The Heights' Love Thread....

Posted: 4/15/08 at 1:28pm

I wish!
I can't stop wearing my "No pare, sigue, sigue!" shirt! heehee just too perfect...
I'm am most likely going back this summer and seeing it with my best friend re: The Official 'In The Heights' Love Thread.... She really wants to see it. I think I am going put a little jar on my kitchen counter that says "In the Heights funds" and just putting all my spare change in there!!

"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"

"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
#285

re: The Official 'In The Heights' Love Thread....

Posted: 4/15/08 at 2:00pm

haha it's actually in the wash right now! lol
But yeah I got the idea when I was staying with my cousin and her fiancée in the city and they had a jar labeled "wedding fund". My cousin is getting tickets to the show for her fiancées birthday, actually, based on my review of the show!

"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"

"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
#290

re: The Official 'In The Heights' Love Thread....

Posted: 4/16/08 at 12:01am

I enjoyed it off-Broadway and even more on Broadway.
"I'm a whirling mass of contradictions." - Douglas Carter Beane, The Little Dog Laughed

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#295

re: The Official 'In The Heights' Love Thread....

Posted: 4/16/08 at 9:47am

Heights understudies galore scheduled to perform at the "At This Performance! Understudy Spotlight Concerts" on both Sunday and Monday nights this week (sidenote: I actually got to see Krysta!Vanessa a couple of weeks ago, and she was fabulous!)-


Performers scheduled to perform on Sunday, April 20th are Tony Chiroldes (Understudy for the roles of Kevin and Piragua Guy in In the Heights), Mindy Dougherty (Understudy for the role of Dainty June in Gypsy), MaryAnn Hu (Understudy for the role of Bloody Mary in South Pacific), Billy Eugene Jones (Standby for the roles of Franklin, Joop and Mr. Venus in Passing Strange), Garrett Long (Understudy for the role of Ensign Nellie Forbush in South Pacific), Jessica Phillips (Standby for the role of Diana in Next to Normal), Jessica Rush (Understudy for the roles of Louise and Miss Cratchitt in Gypsy), Paul A. Schaefer (Understudy for the role of Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera) and Pearce Wegener (Understudy for the roles of Tulsa and Pastey in Gypsy). Musical Director/Accompanist for the evening will be Philip Kirchman.

Performers scheduled to perform on Monday, April 21st are Haven Burton (Understudy for the role of Elle Woods in Legally Blonde), Jason Dula (Standby for Male roles in Make Me a Song), Jennifer Foote (Understudy for the roles of Val, Sheila and Judy in A Chorus Line), Annie Funke (Standby for the role of Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray), Lisa Howard (Understudy for the role of Bloody Mary in South Pacific), Alan Mingo, Jr. (Understudy for the role of Sebastian in The Little Mermaid), Doreen Montalvo (Understudy for the roles of Abuela Claudia, Camila and Daniela in In the Heights), Krysta Rodriguez (Understudy for the roles of Carla, Nina and Vanessa in In the Heights), Andrew Samonsky (Understudy for the roles of Lt. Joseph Cable, U.S.M.C. and Cmdr. William Harbison, U.S.N. in South Pacific) and Bret Shuford (Understudy or the roles of Prince Eric and Flotsam in The Little Mermaid). Musical Director/Accompanist for the evening will be Brian Cimmet.

Tickets are $20.00 each and are available at SMARTTIX (212) 868-4444.

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Updated On: 4/16/08 at 09:47 AM

#298

re: The Official 'In The Heights' Love Thread....

Posted: 4/16/08 at 7:19pm

I agree about 96,000. It screams Tony number to me.

"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"

"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
#300

re: The Official 'In The Heights' Love Thread....

Posted: 4/16/08 at 10:30pm

idk i think the opening might work better as a tony performance, its a great introduction (well, duh)
<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT
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