How Lin-Manuel Miranda Revolutionized Broadway in just the first 3 minutes of In the Heights!
0:00 Lin The Synthesizer
3:02 Openings Can Make a Hit
4:07 Modern Overture
7:11 Graffiti Pete
8:19 Clave
11:26 "Lights Up"
13:31 Slant Rhymes
15:02 Syntactical Self
15:39 Piragüero
18:41 Abuela Claudia
18:56 96st Street
20:41 Take the A Train
21:16 Gentrification
22:27 Chorus
Additional research by Annika Hoseth
Produced by Monica M. Lee
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SOURCES:
The Forty-Year Old Version
Hamilton
West Side Story
Highland Players - In the Heights (Full Proshot by JD Hopper)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5D7Fdf0Amw
UPenn’s 2016 Commencement Address - Lin-Manuel Miranda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewHcsFlolz4
LA Times - 40 Black Playwrights on the Theater Industry's Insidious Racism
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-10-14/40-black-playwrights-theater-racism
PBS Great Performances - In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZOfuw5ow54
THNKR - Lin-Manuel Miranda Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-5dt5FPJ8E
Business Insider - NYC Income Maps
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-income-maps-2014-12
The Broadway League - 2018/2019 Report
https://www.broadwayleague.com/research/research-reports/
The Breakfast Club - Lin-Manuel Miranda Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AZf6MdFLH0
Notorious B.I.G. - Warning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbSm6HsX_ek
The View - In the Heights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTqEsNSM_OU
West Side Story (2021 Trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbUM27qw6a8
Inside Edition - West Side Story (2021 Broadway)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akh33ZtuClI
Theatermania - Kinky Boots Team Introduces Us to Life as a Stage Manager
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QTlMBAqJvc
American Theatre Wing - Working in the Theatre: Lighting Designer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqMYsjHU5rU
Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCCH9touDu8
This American Life - 21 Chump Street: The Musical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELBGa6-uOhc
Barrie Kealoha - Anatomy of Musicals: The Sequel
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-V0SdzDwsv/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - "Comedy Tonight"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQqCydU8elY
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