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In The Heights, the 2008 Broadway musical set in his home neighbourhood. While fans will recognise the rhythm of his hip-hop style, this is a looser, simpler affair than his later historical epic, but one brimming with the same energy and lust for life. These characters aren’t trying to change countries or win wars, but their struggles to make a living, find love or establish a place in the world are no less life-and-death for the individuals involved. There’s simultaneously a lot of plot here and relatively little that seems out of the ordinary. Our hero, and narrator, is Anthony Ramos’ Usnavi, a corner-shop owner saving up to return to the Dominican Republic and reopen his father’s old beach bar, as his neighbourhood gentrifies and old businesses are driven out. He’s crushing on Vanessa (Melissa Barrera), who can’t wait to move downtown and start her own dress shop. Meanwhile the prodigious Nina (Leslie Grace) is back in town from Stanford. She left as a golden gir

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