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The Official "In The Heights" Love Thread....
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1825
Posted: 8/21/08 at 11:33am
Josh is back this whole week, right? For the Benny vacay covering? I'll be there Saturday afternoon!
and yay for Eliseo!Kevin news!!
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The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1826
Posted: 8/21/08 at 11:43amI enjoy Eliseo's Kevin...lucky yous who get to see it.
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1827
Posted: 8/21/08 at 12:20pmJust wondering if anyone will be out this Saturday evening (the 23rd)? I don't really care- I was just curious. :)
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1828
Posted: 8/22/08 at 12:52pm
bump :)
SO excited to see Eliseo's Kevin wednesday!!
And I guess this a good place to say Happy Birthday to Ms. Mandy Gonzalez!
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1829
Posted: 8/24/08 at 2:23amAnekela, are we just following each other or what? I was at the matinee today as well. It's such a beautiful show! My friend came up for the day and I got tickets for us to see the show. She bought me the program. I have NEVER done the stage door anywhere. I did today. I missed Mandy and then Andrea, Janet and Olga didn't come out. I was able to get everyone else to sign my program. We did other things around the city with a group. After dropping my friend off at her bus, my mom wanted to go to the Grease stage door to meet some friends. We decided to head over to ITH again and try for the last three. They all came out. We got most of the dancers, too. My program is so pretty. I keep looking at it. Anyway, I had a wonderful time. The cast is amazing and TOTALLY friendly. It has absolutely stolen my "favorite show" spot. Am I in some club now?
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1830
Posted: 8/24/08 at 11:28am
Awwww, that is too cute!!! That reminds me, my cd cover is signed by everyone except Priscilla right now, I have to remember to correct that one of these days. But yeah, you're totally in some club now. :)
(ps- where were you sitting? did you hear the small burst of entrance applause for Josh? I was sitting right smack in front of that group of his friends, they were *so excited* for him, it was so adorable.)
So one of the people I took to the Heights matinee yesterday is someone who has never seen a show- ever. No Broadway, no touring, nothing. His musicals exposure consists of "I saw the movie The Wizard of Oz," lol, because "musicals are weird because people are just waking down the street and break into song..." Anyway, I am sure you all know that I am providing this setup because, fast forward to intermission at Heights, where he's texting his friends how much he's enjoying it, and so he's now looking for suggestions on other shows to see.
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1831
Posted: 8/24/08 at 5:39pmSaw the show Saturday evening for the 2nd time. It was SO great! I feel like it's a show I could see 16 times and never get sick of it. I don't really do the stage door thing anymore but I couldn't resist running over and getting Mandy Gonzalez's signature when I saw she had come out. She is super cute!
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1832
Posted: 8/24/08 at 5:50pmI actually can't wait to see it again!
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1833
Posted: 8/24/08 at 8:21pmI am seeing it again wednesday evening for the first time since April 22nd. Yay I am so excited!
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1834
Posted: 8/24/08 at 10:38pmWill Eliseo be on as Kevin August 31st???? and Will Josh be on as Benny that day also??? Thats the day Im going and I would love to see the original members but im also excited for undertudies :)
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1835
Posted: 8/24/08 at 10:45pm
Josh!Benny = no, his last scheduled Benny was today.
Eliseo!Kevin = yes.
(And Sun the 31st will also be Doreen!Daniela.)
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1836
Posted: 8/25/08 at 9:37amThanks for the info Anakela! I was kind of hoping to see Josh!Benny because I saw Josh in Godspell at the Papermill and his voice was fantastic! :)
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1837
Posted: 8/25/08 at 10:26am
I'm officially the worst fan ever. I haven't seen the show since it won the Tony(s). I need to get on that. I'm just the type of person who worries that seeing a show too often will make it lose its impact. I don't want to become numb to it. Well, that, and the raised ticket prices and near impossibility of winning the lottery. Would love to see Eliseo as Kevin, though. I don't know if I'll be able to. 
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1838
Posted: 8/25/08 at 10:33am
I can't wait for Lin's next Youtube Video
Legally Brown: Search for the next Piragua Guy!
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1839
Posted: 8/25/08 at 10:37am
I'm just the type of person who worries that seeing a show too often will make it lose its impact. I don't want to become numb to it.
You're not alone, LOL.
I'm a HUGE Les Mis fan, but have actually limited myself to 2 performances each engagement (well, when the 3rd national tour was still around) for fear that it would turn stale and boring after a while.
The incredible thing is that, after so many years, the last time I saw the tour, it felt like the first time. I will never trade that feeling for anything.
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1840
Posted: 8/25/08 at 11:04amI saw this again with some friends on Saturday Eve, and was blown away yet again. We were there to see Josh as Benny, and we were NOT disappointed. I pray that guy gets a great gig and SOON.
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1841
Posted: 8/25/08 at 11:08amSusan Blackwell was chillin' by the stage door Saturday night and while we were standing there waiting, Debra Monk walked by. I love NY.
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1842
Posted: 8/25/08 at 12:19pm
I really, really enjoyed Josh as Benny. I actually think I prefer him a little bit to Chris. Chris- who is amazing and ridiculously hot, don't get me wrong- just has this sort of "womanizer" vibe that makes me distrust his relationship with Nina a little. But he's so darn fun to watch on stage, I can understand why he was cast. I just find myself trusting Josh's Benny a little bit more. Plus the fact that he has darker skin helps a lot- when I saw Chris as Benny, I thought he was Hispanic and spent 70% of the show trying to figure out why Nina's father had a problem with him.
Updated On: 8/25/08 at 12:19 PM
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1843
Posted: 8/25/08 at 12:35pmI'm happy that Josh was able to get his job back with ITH after Godspell was cancelled.
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1844
Posted: 8/25/08 at 12:38pm
He only came back for the week. Marcus Paul James is already in his track. I hope they find a way to bring Josh back because I really had hoped to see his Benny but the timing never worked out.
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1845
Posted: 8/25/08 at 1:13pmIs Luis Salgado back yet?
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1846
Posted: 8/25/08 at 2:48pm
Yeah I really hope that they find a way to to bring Josh back.... i mean, I know this business is effed up but I think that he should have his job back 
"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!!! -KillerTofuThe Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1847
Posted: 8/25/08 at 4:42pm
when I saw Chris as Benny, I thought he was Hispanic and spent 70% of the show trying to figure out why Nina's father had a problem with him.
I've said this before, but when I saw the show with my parents, my mom thought Benny was Dominican. She even leaned in when Kevin said he mistrusted Benny and said "ah, cause he's Dominican". It's explained in the show several times, but for whatever reason, a lot of people make that mistake. Truth is, there is some rivalry between Dominicans and Puerto Ricans. It's really unfortunate, but I grew up listening to a lot of really awful racist Dominican jokes (the equivalent would be something like Polish jokes in the US). My grandfather was Dominican, and the same was true over there (ie, racist Puerto Rican jokes). So while Heights deals with black/latino racial and cultural conflicts through the Benny/Rosarios relationship , it could easily have worked with inter latino conflicts if Benny *had* been Dominican.
And My Oh My, I'm glad I'm not alone in this. I just really cherish the feeling when a show is still fresh and new. I may miss out on seeing all these wonderful understudies, but by limiting myself, it's still always a treat when I actually *do* see the show. I plan to when my sister comes visit me in late September.
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1848
Posted: 8/25/08 at 4:46pmWhen I saw Josh it was much easier seeing why Kevin did not approve of him (Because you could tell he was black) Also Mandy doesn't look Latino...
The Official Best Musical Tony Award Winner 'In The Heights' Love Thread#1849
Posted: 8/25/08 at 5:01pm
Also Mandy doesn't look Latino...
I know Right
it could easily have worked with inter latino conflicts if Benny *had* been Dominican.
Thats what I thought Benny was until the second time I saw it!
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