Pop Culture: In the Heights

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In the Heights becomes a Broadway hit

The Tony for Best Musical, along with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Latino-pride-filled acceptance speech, was the frosting on the cake. The real victory was that the musical about Latinos struggling and dreaming in a Manhattan neighborhood ever got to the Great White Way in the first place and that audiences, both Latino and not, embraced it.

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