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Anthony Ramos vividly remembers the first time he saw Lin-Manuel Miranda’s acclaimed musical
In the Heights on Broadway. It was 2010, and his college, the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA), had bought a block of tickets for its students. Ramos identified straightaway with the show’s protagonist. Beyond their Latin roots (Ramos is of Puerto Rican descent, while the fictional Usnavi’s family is Dominican), they were both New Yorkers and dreamers immersed in the struggle for a better life. “I left that theater with electricity going through my body,” he recalls. “In the context of Broadway, for the first time, I felt seen.”