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WHAT!?!?!?!?

posted 16 years ago by WUZZUP
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Okay I know a majority of Broadway fans don't come here, but still come on people. In The Heights was phenomenal. I mean, it blew me away. Every other show I saw this past trip (Legally Blonde, Gypsy, and Spring Awakening) had SOMETHING going for it (a cast member, a song, a set, a sense of endearment, whatever). This play, though just was amazing. It was like seeing Jonathan Larson write the first notes of "One Song Glory", I felt so lucky to see a gem like this before it gets absurdly mainstream. But yeah, I felt it a shame that the creator, writer, and absolute STAR of the show doesn't have one post. It says on the album that there were more than sixty songs written for the show over time, as he was that dedicated and into this project. That's talent.

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[–] smiles_for_miles 16 years ago

I completely agree. Lin Manuel is by far the most talented person I've come across in a long time
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[–] punkgirly 7 years ago

Have you seen Hamilton yet?

[–] stephlem89 7 years ago

Awww I love seeing posts like this from back in the early Heights days :'D

What's absolutely incredible to me is that In the Heights was already so freaking fantastic (truly, that finale gets me like almost none other with the bittersweet feels!), and yet somehow in the years between Heights and Hamilton Lin managed to take his already immeasurable talent up a bunch MORE notches, and basically solidified his place as one of the great composers of this generation.

So I can't even begin to imagine the genius we're in for in the years and decades to come, if he keeps finding ways to outdo himself when he already started out above the rest ^__^

(also, can we talk about how freaking excited I am that Heights is becoming a movie!?! I can't waaait- though I only wish that Lin would reconsider his stance that he's too old to play Usnavi... I just... there is literally no one else who can match his Usnavi! Usnavi is so much HIS particular brand of adorable and awkwardly charming