Theater Reviews + Features | Pittsburgh City Paper: As both a 2008 Tony-winner and Pulitzer finalist for his show In the Heights, composer and lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda is a hot Broadway property these days. No less than Stephen Sondheim remarked that Miranda's work is "a classic example of the way art moves forward."
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Let me start by saying that I absolutely love this show and was lucky enough to see the touring broadway production of this in Hollywood. In the Heights is an emotional and spectacular journal that I recommend everyone take their time and see. I personally would like to go see this again while it is still here in Pittsburgh.
I'm sure the show isn't as bad as the article says it is. There is usually a rough patch in the beginning with technology and that one show that is just a total disaster. That's what happens in live theatre; there are no do-overs. I just saw this show this past summer at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Maryland. It was pretty good, minus the lack of diction so I could only understand half of what they said. It was kind of towards the end of the run of the show, so I'm sure the actors just forgot that they still had to over-enunciate everything for the show. The author of this article is crazy if he thinks 25 is a big cast. I've done community theatre with over 100 people on stage each with at least three costumes and only my mother and I costuming it. In the long run, 25 is really small, and there aren't THAT many costume changes in In The Heights. Plus all the clothes are normal street clothes that don't need to be specially made. This reporter is over reacting to the details. I'm sure the show was actually really good.
I saw opening weekend, and I agree that there were some technical issues. And yes some of them were more annoying than others. But overall it was a great production, and that's just apart of live theatre. We don't get to edit in post, what you see is what you get. And yeah sometimes we could benefit from another day of tech, or extra previews. But the fact of the matter is that we don't have those options. So rather than being catty about it, be realistic about what you're going to see on an opening night rather than a week into the run. Don't waste an article talking about how a show is going to be great after an opening weekend because the issues will work themselves out. It's quite frankly just common sense.
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