Melissa Barrera’s Vanessa, who works at the local hair and nail salon that is the gossip hub of the neighborhood, yearns to move downtown and break into the fashion industry. Nor is Usnavi the only one looking to escape the Heights. Usnavi is proud of his multicultural neighborhood of Washington Heights in upper Manhattan, and he loves the people he’s known forever - but he dreams of buying and restoring the beachfront bar once owned by his father in the Dominican Republic. Chu of “Crazy Rich Asians”) was originally scheduled for a June 2020 release but was postponed due to the pandemic - and while it will be available simultaneously on HBO Max, one hopes the true streaming phenomenon will involve millions of movie fans streaming into theaters to catch this infectiously entertaining, fantastically choreographed, consistently involving and absolutely gorgeous musical spectacle on the biggest screen and with the best sound possible.Īt 41, Miranda is still a young man, but he has aged out of playing the role of the twentysomething corner bodega owner Usnavi - a role now played to winning effect by Anthony Ramos (who played John Laurens/Philip Hamilton in original Broadway production of “Hamilton”). The film adaptation (with superb direction from John M. That vendor is played by the one and only Lin-Manuel Miranda, who forever will have “Hamilton” attached to his name but scored his first major Broadway triumph writing the music and lyrics and playing the lead in the Tony Award-winning “In the Heights” in the late 2000s. Opens Thursday at local theaters and on HBO Max. Rated PG-13 (for some language and suggestive references). Chu and written by Quiara Alegría Hudes, based on stage play by Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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