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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Multi-Cultural Tonys Made Broadway Look All-American

Bloomberg.com: Muse Arts: "When Lin-Manuel Miranda rapped his Tony Award acceptance speech to a giddily stunned audience last night, he rhymed props to Stephen Sondheim, his family and that Latin-inflected fingertip of northern Manhattan where his show, ``In the Heights,'' is set.

And when the rock musician Stew won for his book for ``Passing Strange,'' he nodded to Los Angeles, where his exuberant, loud, sexy show begins and ends.

I liked ``Passing Strange'' more than ``In the Heights,'' but really, that's not the point. The remarkable thing is that those two comparatively small-scale, unassuming shows came to dominate the Tonys at all."

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