In the Heights

IN THE HEIGHTS, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards® including Best Musical, is a sensational new show about chasing your dreams and finding your true home. With an amazing cast, incredible Tony® Award-winning dancing and a thrilling Tony® Award-winning score, IN THE HEIGHTS is an exhilarating journey into a vibrant Manhattan community – a place where the coffee is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music.

Experience the next chapter of the classic American story at the most joyous, exciting and award-winning new musical on Broadway. Find out what it takes to make a living, what it costs to have a dream and what it means to be home…IN THE HEIGHTS.

Running Time: 2 hrs. 30 mins., including intermission

CREATIVE TEAM

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA (Usnavi; Music and Lyrics; Original Concept) won the 2008 Tony Award® for Best Original Score for IN THE HEIGHTS. He wrote the first incarnation of IN THE HEIGHTS during his sophomore year at Wesleyan University, CT. Off-Broadway: IN THE HEIGHTS: nine Drama Desk nominations, including Best Music, Best Lyrics and won the award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance; the Lucille Lortel Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical; the Obie Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics; a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance and the Clarence Derwent Award, both for Mr. Miranda's performance. He is the recipient of the 2007 ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award. TV/film: "The Sopranos," "Sex and the City". A co-founding member of Freestyle Love Supreme, a hip-hop comedy group that tours comedy festivals all over the world. Love and gratitude to Luz, Luis, Lucecita y Mundi. He dedicates IN THE HEIGHTS to the memory of Abuela Eva.

QUIARA ALEGRÍA HUDES (Book) was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award® for her book of IN THE HEIGHTS. Off B'way: IN THE HEIGHTS (Lucille Lortel Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting, Broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite Musical, named one of the  Top 100 Latinos of the Year by Latina Mag). Off-off B'way: Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (Pulitzer Prize Finalist). Regional: Yemaya's Belly (Clauder Prize, Paula Vogel Award for Playwriting, Kennedy Center Latina Playwriting Award). Upcoming premieres: 26 Miles at the Alliance Theatre and Barrio Grrrl! The Musical at the Kennedy Center. B.A. in music composition, Yale University. M.F.A. in playwriting, Brown University. She is a resident writer at New Dramatists, a previous Page 73 Playwriting Fellow, and a proud Philly native. She dedicates IN THE HEIGHTS to Ray, Cecilia, and Abuela Yuya. 

THOMAS KAIL (Director) was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award® for his direction of IN THE HEIGHTS. Off B’way: IN THE HEIGHTS (Callaway Award, Drama Desk nom., Outer Critics nom.) Directed the world premiere of Broke-ology at the 2008 Williamstown Theater Festival. He is the artistic director and co-founder of Back House Productions, the resident theater company of NYC’s Drama Book Shop. He is the co-creator and director of the hip-hop improv group Freestyle Love Supreme. Other recent work has been seen at 37 Arts, Ars Nova, HBO Comedy Festival, Cherry Lane Theatre (Mentor Project), Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Flea Theatre, Melbourne Comedy Festival, Montreal Comedy Festival, and the O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference. He is a consulting producer and a Music Director on the new television show The Electric Company, which will air on PBS in 2009. Recipient of the 2008 Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center. Graduate of Wesleyan University, CT.

ANDY BLANKENBUEHLER (Choreographer) won the 2008 Tony Award® for Best Choreography for IN THE HEIGHTS. Recent credits include The Apple Tree (B'way, City Center Encores!), Desperately Seeking Susan (West End, London) and the Off-B'way production of IN THE HEIGHTS (Lortel, Outer Critics, Calloway and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Choreography). Other theatrical work: A Little Princess (music by Andrew Lippa); Waiting for the Moon (music by Frank Wildhorn); Burleigh Grimes (New World Stages); Broadway by the Year: 1930, 1938 and 1978; A Wonderful Life (Paper Mill Playhouse); and the hit Caesars Palace production Nights on Broadway. Future projects include the new B'way musical, Nine to Five. Mr. Blankenbuehler has performed on B'way in Fosse, Contact, Man of La Mancha, Saturday Night Fever, Steel Pier, Big, Guys and Dolls. He sends boundless love and gratitude to his wife Elly and their new son, Luca.

ALEX LACAMOIRE (Music Director, Arranger, Orchestrator) won the 2008 Tony Award® for Best Orchestrations for IN THE HEIGHTS. He was the music director for IN THE HEIGHTS Off-B'way, where he earned a Drama Desk nomination for the orchestrations. In 2006 he music supervised and coorchestrated High Fidelity, and for the year 2005 he served as the music director of Wicked on B'way, for which he also contributed music arrangements. Other credits as music director, arranger, and/or orchestrator: Bat Boy: The Musical, the 2001 nat'l tour of Godspell, Stephen Schwartz's Captain Louie and Legally Blonde. Para toda mi familia, aquí y allá.

ANNA LOUIZOS (Set Designer) Broadway: In the Heights; Curtains (Drama Desk, nomination); High Fidelity (2007 Tony nomination); Avenue Q (Broadway, Las Vegas, London, US Tour); Steel Magnolias; Golda’s Balcony. Other: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, Toronto, St. Paul, Detroit, UK). Off- Broadway: Crimes of the Heart (Roundabout), IN THE HEIGHTS at 37 Arts (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel nominations); Based on a Totally True Story, (MTC); Birdie Blue (Second Stage); Altar Boyz (also U.S. tour); The Foreigner (Roundabout); tick, tick… BOOM! (Jane St. Theatre). Regional: Seven Brides (TUTS, Papermill); The Baker’s Wife (Papermill). Also: Goodspeed; Old Globe; Berkshire Theatre Fest; The Alley; Merrimack Rep; Charlotte Rep; Williamstown. Art Direction film/TV: “Sex & the City” (HBO). Feature Film: The Secret Lives of Dentists. 

PAUL TAZEWELL (Costume Designer) Broadway: The Color Purple (Tony® nom.); Hot Feet; Caroline, or Change; A Raisin in the Sun; Drowning Crow; Bring in 'da Noise... (Tony® nom.); Elaine Stritch at Liberty; On the Town; Fascinating Rhythm; Def Poetry Jam. Off-Broadway: IN THE HEIGHTS; McReele; Flesh and Blood; Fame; Boston Marriage; Harlem Song. Three Helen Hayes Awards, Lucille Lortel, Jefferson, Princess Grace and Irene Sharaff awards.

HOWELL BINKLEY (Lighting Designer) Broadway: Crybaby, Xanadu, LoveMusik, Bridge & Tunnel, Jersey Boys, Steel Magnolias, Dracula, Avenue Q, Golda’s Balcony, Hollywood Arms, The Look of Love, Gore Vidal's The Best Man, Minnelli on Minnelli, The Full Monty, Parade, Kiss Of The Spider Woman, Sacrilege, Taking Sides, How To Succeed..., High Society, Grease. Off-Broadway includes: Patti LuPone in Gypsy directed by Arthur Laurents at City Center, Landscape of The Body at The Signature Theatre, Sinatra at Radio City Music Hall, Batboy: The Musical at The Union Square Theatre and Radiant Baby at The Public Theater. Regional: The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington DC, The Alley Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep., The Old Globe, The Guthrie, The Goodman, Hartford Stage, and six musicals in repertory for The Kennedy Center's Sondheim Celebration. Dance: Howell has designed more than sixty pieces for Parsons Dance which he co-founded with David Parsons. Binkley has also created designs for Alvin Ailey, American Ballet Theatre, MoMix, Hubbard Street Dance, Peter Pucci Plus, and The Joffrey Ballet (Billboards). Five time Helen Hayes Award recipient. 1993 Sir Laurence Olivier Award and Canadian Dora Award for Kiss of The Spider Woman. 2006 Henry Hewes Design Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony Award winner for Jersey Boys.

Acme SOUND PARTNERS (Sound Designer) Broadway: The Country Girl, Legally Blonde, High Fidelity, A Chorus Line (2006), Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Drowsy Chaperone, Hot Feet, The Light in the Piazza, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dracula the Musical, Twentieth Century, Fiddler on the Roof, Never Gonna Dance, The Boy From Oz, Avenue Q, Gypsy, La Bohème (Drama Desk Award), Flower Drum Song, Elaine Stritch At Liberty, Bells Are Ringing, A Class Act, Jane Eyre, The Full Monty. National: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Numerous Off-Broadway and regional productions, plus theatrical concerts and special events with renowned orchestras at world-famous venues indoors and out. Seven summers in Central Park with the NYSF. The partners are: Tom Clark, Mark Menard and Nevin Steinberg.

KEVIN McCOLLUM (Producer) won Tony Awards® for Best Musical for IN THE HEIGHTS (2008), Avenue Q (2004) and for Rent (1996), which also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was made into a major motion picture. Mr. McCollum also produced [title of show], which will open on Broadway in July of 2008; The Drowsy Chaperone (2006), winner of five Tony Awards; Baz Luhrmann's Broadway production of Puccini's La Bohème (2002), which won two Tony Awards; High Fidelity (2006); the debut stage productions of Irving Berlin's White Christmas; and the Off-Broadway hits De La Guarda and [title of show].

JEFFREY SELLER (Producer) is the winner of three Tony Awards® for Best Musical: Rent (1996), which also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Avenue Q (2004) and IN THE HEIGHTS (2008). Jeffrey has also produced and/or developed De La Guarda (1998), Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party (2000), Baz Luhrmann's production of Puccini's La Bohème (2002) and High Fidelity (2006). Jeffrey is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

JILL FURMAN (Producer) won a 2008 Tony Award® for Best Musical for IN THE HEIGHTS. On Broadway Jill produced The Drowsy Chaperone, winner of five Tony Awards® in 2006, and associate produced Sly Fox and Fortune's Fool. Off-Broadway she produced IN THE HEIGHTS and On the Line and associate produced Adult Entertainment. Currently Jill is producing the hip-hop comedy group Freestyle Love Supreme and the national tour of The Drowsy Chaperone. She is on the Board of Directors of MCC Theater and is a member of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

SANDER JACOBS (Producer) has served as a co-producer and/or major investor for numerous Broadway, national and international productions, including a selection of theatre's most celebrated and critically acclaimed musicals. Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Grand Hotel, and Follies are among his many investments. His business career began with the creation of a multi-product fashion manufacturing and distributing company, and quickly expanded to include ventures in the real estate and cosmetic industries. Mr. Jacobs is proud to be back on Broadway with IN THE HEIGHTS, the latest project of his entertainment company.

GOODMAN/GROSSMAN (Producers) Robyn Goodman produced the musical Avenue Q and received the Tony Award® for Best Musical of 2004. Other Broadway credits: Metamorphoses (Drama Desk Award), A Class Act, Steel Magnolias, Barefoot in the Park, High Fidelity. Off-Broadway: Bat Boy: The Musical, tick, tick Boom, Our Lady of 121st Street, Red Light Winter and the award-winning Altar Boyz now in its 4th year. She was Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Second Stage Theatre for 13 years, Supervising Producer of ABC's “One Life To Live” for 4 years and is currently a consultant to Counts Media on an innovative new entertainment project. She is Artistic Consultant to The Roundabout Theatre Company and curated Speech and Debate at the Underground Theatre. Walt Grossman is chairman of Brookehill Capital Partners, a private investment firm. Walt is an associate producer of Avenue Q and is also a producer of the Off-Broadway miracle Altar Boyz. He produced Barefoot in the Park and serves as board member of The New Group Theater Company. In his other life, he is an active investor in early stage companies. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

PETER FINE (Producer). The son of a New York City cab driver, Peter Fine is the quintessential New York entrepreneur. He grew up in public housing in Queens and became a social-worker, pursuing his PhD in Sociology at NYU. In 1995, he co-founded Atlantic Development Group. In 13 years the company has grown to become a major development, construction, leasing and management company in New York. Atlantic has built 55 buildings in the last five years, totaling over $1 billion of mixed-use, residential, retail, office and community facility projects in New York City. IN THE HEIGHTS is Peter’s first Broadway production.

EVERETT/SKIPPER (Producers) 2004 Tony Award®-winner Avenue Q (Broadway, Las Vegas and National tour). The Drowsy Chaperone (Broadway and National Tour). Producer: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Annual Holiday Tour). Producer/partner Rogers and Hammerstein’s State Fair (Broadway, National Tour); IN THE HEIGHTS (Off-Broadway); The Unexpected Man (London, NewYork); Collected Stories; Vita and Virginia; Beauty Queen of Leenane; June Moon; The Laramie Project; Gross Indecency; Shockheaded Peter; Tru (Lewis and Jay Presson Allen); As Bees in Honey Drown; Blown Sideways Through Life; Hurly Burly. Mr. Everett was producer for the late Kitty Carlisle Hart. Michael Skipper received Tony nominations for The Crucible with Liam Neesom; The Civil War; Play On; and Damn Yankees. Drama Desk Award Best Musical for Bat Boy and Best Ensemble of a Play for Cobb (co-produced with Kevin Spacey). Other Off-Broadway credits include: Shockheaded Peter, Vagina Monologues. Co-owner 37 Arts Theater Complex. Splits time between his Texas ranch and NYC! www.Gramily.com