Listen to this fantastic play describing the Washington Heights. The play is called In the Heights, by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Many people that watched this play have been extremely amazed on how the characters from the play reveal was is truly Washington Heights. Washington Heights has been a home for alot of different immgrants, such as Irish, Jewish, Italian, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans. The 27 year old man, Miranda grew in the Northern Manhattan states that now the neighborhood "is a largely a Dominican community." For example some high school students from the Theater Development Fund went to the play and they demostrated their excitement by "stomping wildly through the show." The play is consisted of hip-hop, salsa, and old-fashioned storytelling into a nouveau. The play is a"West Side story tale of love, loss, dreams, and change in the gentrifying but-still-mostly Dominican Heights." The students from the Theater Development Fund were thrilled when they heard one main characters rapping about Dominican Republic. They kept being excited when they heard the electrifying dance at the end of Act One, "to the hysteria-inducing moment when hunky heartthrob Christopher Jackson."
Infact, I also exprienced watching this incredible play with fellow classmates and teachers from Murry Bergtraum. We got to share wonderful times filled with Dominican spirit. I was so happy watching how they transform this play to be exactly how Washington Heights is. The way they organized the stage was marvelous. They had the typical Dominican beauty salon with women chatting and gossiping while they fixed their hair, and the grocery store serving their coffee with milk consisting of 4 spoons of sugar. Watching this play, it truly made me feel like a true Dominican girl.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/101170.html-29k-Mar
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/03/upper_upper_west_side_story.html#more
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