“In the Heights” Wins Tony Awards

The Latin Diaspora in the United States continues to churn out successes. The latest was the musical, “In the Heights,” that won four Tony Awards – out of its impressive 13 nominations. The musical won Tony Awards for: Best Orchestration, Best Choreography, Best Original Score and Best Broadway Musical.

“The history of Latinos in the U.S. is the last chapter of the American dream. Washington Heights was Irish, then Italian then Jewish. Now it is Dominican and Puerto Rican…”

“In the Heights,” a story about the life of a typical Dominican family in the New York neighborhood of Washington Heights, has won some of the most important theater awards in the United States. It received a total of 13 nominations, more than any other play on Broadway.

Written by composer-actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, 28 of Puerto Rican parents, the play is a stimulating trip inside one of the most vibrant and picturesque communities in Manhattan with the largest concentration of Dominicans in the U.S.

Salsa, merengue, hip hop, the ballad and Latin Pop in the Spanish and English spoken by most Puerto Rican and Dominicans in Washington Heights mixes with the customs and idiosyncrasies of life among the Latinos living “In the Heights.”

“The history of Latinos in the U.S. is the last chapter of the American dream. Washington Heights was Irish, then Italian then Jewish. Now it is Dominican and Puerto Rican and we are telling our part of the story,” said Lin-Manuel Miranda.