Presenters and performances have been announced for the 2023 Chita Rivera Awards, taking place on May 22 at 7:30pm at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place off Washington Square Park).
NEW YORK, NEW YORK opens on Broadway tonight, Wednesday, March 26th, 2023, at Broadway’s St. James Theatre (246 West 44th Street). Read reviews for the show!
In the Heights is a love letter to New York City’s Latinx and Caribbean communities. Based on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2008 Broadway musical of the same title, the movie follows Usnavi de la Vega (Anthony Ramos) as he tries to save his local bodega from the claws of gentrification. The musical cemented Miranda’s status as a mainstay of the Broadway world, and later Hollywood, because of its rule-breaking approach that injected his Washington Heights.
“In the Heights” star Anthony Ramos felt like he hit the jackpot when he shot “96,000,” a spirited song-and-dance number about winning the lottery. Surrounded by dozens of dancers, Ramos could feel the passion as the upbeat anthem about big dreams filled the movie musical’s set at the Highbridge Pool in Upper Manhattan. In that moment, the film about the area’s predominantly Latino community .