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In The Heights | 
 enlarge | Artist: In The Heights-original Broadway Cast Recording
Label: Ghostlight
Category: Music
List Price: $21.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 274
Format: Cast Recording
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.7
MPN: 84428
UPC: 791558442823
EAN: 0791558442823
ASIN: B0016CGNZM
Release Date: June 3, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW AND FACTORY SEALED!
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | In The Heights | | • | Breathe | | • | Benny's Dispatch | | • | It Won't Be Long Now | | • | Inutil | | • | No Me Diga | | • | 96,000 | | • | Pacienca Y Fe (patience and faith) | | • | When You're Home | | • | Piragua | | • | The Club | | • | Blackout |
Disc 2
| • | Sunrise | | • | Hundreds of Stories | | • | Enough | | • | Carnaval Del Barrio | | • | Atencion | | • | Alabanza | | • | Everything I Know | | • | Piragua (Reprise) | | • | Champagne | | • | When The Sun Goes Down | | • | Finale |
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Broadway hasn't been very good at incorporating various strands of pop and rock over the past 40 years. Most of the shows attempting that draw from contemporary chart sounds have felt awkward, rather than "young." It's all the more rewarding, then, that 2008 saw not one but two successful efforts - Passing Strange and In the Heights. The latter, set in New York's predominantly Dominican neighborhood of Washington Heights, is propelled by first-timer Lin-Manuel Miranda's high-energy, horn-and-percussion-driven score. Miranda managed to modernize classic elements found in most Broadway shows by mixing them up with Latin and hip-hop arrangements. "In the Heights" and "The Club" are joyous ensemble numbers, for instance, while "Carnaval del Barrio" is an uplifting eleven o'clock belt, "Sunrise" a romantic duet and "Everything I Know" a sentimental soliloquy. While Miranda himself convincingly plays the lead, this is a true ensemble piece. The CD snaps, crackles and pops with stellar performances (special props to Mandy Gonzalez, Karen Olivo and the funny, brassy Andrea Burns). -- Elisabeth Vincentelli
Album Description
Get ready to experience an exhilarating journey into one of Manhattan's most vibrant communities, named "BEST MUSICAL OF THE YEAR" by NewYork Magazine and "BEST OF 2007" by The New York Times. With an amazing cast, incredible dancing and a gripping story of hope and self discovery, In The Heights is your ticket into a world where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. Find out what it takes to make a living, what it costs to have a dream, and what it means to be home...In The Heights.
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 Excellent Soundtrack December 26, 2008
"In the Heights" is an excellent sountrack of Latino Rhtyhm with the Broadway Musical Style, something we were missing to hear on Broadway.
Even if you haven't seen the musical you will love this Soundtrack because the story is just amazing and it is a reflection of current NY society, there is this a mix between Latino and American culture printed all over the Musical filled with Salsa and Merengue.
Totally new sound! December 9, 2008
In the Heights in a fantastic Latin Rap broadway musical. While enjoying the soundtrack, you can appreciate how diverse Lin-Manuel Miranda truly is. At the same time, you start to desire more and more albums from the same genre. This groundbreaking new musical is cool for teens, yet classy enough for grandparents (almost). Especially if you speak Spanish, this CD is for you. There are references from DR, PR, and Cuba that you might not understand if you haven't lived there.
"Heights" Aims High...Reaches Higher November 18, 2008
This tantalizingly brisk recording of the Tony award winning musical is both a hybrid and an amalgamation of two so seemingly disparate musical styles that it would have seemed inconceivable that such an achievement was possible. Purists of either camp, be it latino/rap/hip-hop or traditional musical theater, may squirm at "In the Heights" as an abomination when it is actually doing what inventive commercial music always does: challenges, entices, broadens and ultimately invites a new audience in. While not a blockbuster in the vein of "RENT", "In the Heights" actually has a more successful and clever score than even that seminal piece. Composer-lyricist-actor Lin-Manuel Miranda has seemingly come out of nowhere fully formed as both an insprired artist and a very skilled craftsman in the art of composing. His work here represents both a cutural perspective and a grasp of the musical theater idiom within which he has chosen to express his idea, yet he does not do this in a clumsy or preachy manner. In fact, his work is so seemless as to be breathtaking. Songs such as "Piragua", "Blackout" and the title piece are so galvanizing they practically jump out at you, while the gentle, earthier moments in "Alabanza", "Everything I Know" and "When the Sun Goes Down" are heartbreakingly poignant. It's cliche at this point to site Sondheim as an influence, yet it's unavoidable in the character-driven songs of "In the Heights" or in the masterful way in which Miranda lays contrapuntal lines across his most comlex pieces. Still, that is not to say this is a forbidding or cold musical. Miranda is too smart and exuberant for that and he knows his actors need to be allowed to come alive.
And do they ever. Out of nowhere comes one of the most exciting ensembles in memory. Miranda himself is a disarming lead, but the rest of the cast really grab their moments and make the most of them. Olga Merediz, Robin De Jesus and Karen Olivo are all exceptional and sing their souls out, but there is really no one here who is less than marvelous. The recording is crisp and clear, orchestrations are flavorful, evocative and exhilirating and the overall impact is stunning. This is not your mother's Broadway musical. So be it. Times change.
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 Latino Music Hits Broadway in a Huge way! October 6, 2008
very exciting score. Blends Latino and Rap in a very stylized and unigue way. It is exciting to listen to and makes you desire to see it on the satge!
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