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TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I m Terry Gross. My guest, Anthony Ramos, stars in what s expected to be one of the big summer movies, the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda s Tony Award-winning first musical, In The Heights. Ramos is in the role Miranda wrote for himself and played on Broadway. In Miranda s musical Hamilton, Ramos was in a dual role, playing both the abolitionist John Laurens and Hamilton s son Philip. In The Heights is a very kinetic film, and Ramos sings, raps and dances, including in some exuberant, big production numbers.
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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.”