{"id":3241,"date":"2021-06-16T17:53:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2021-06-16T17:53:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:53:23","slug":"in-the-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3241","title":{"rendered":"In the Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most people in the world I watched\u00a0<em>In the Heights<\/em> this past weekend. Watched it from the comfort of my home, which I guess at this point says more about me than about the state of the world.<\/p>\n<p><em>In the Heights<\/em> has one of those incredible Hollywood backstories&#8211;a movie two decades in the making. Its author, Lin-Manuel Miranda (that&#8217;s the\u00a0<em>Hamilton<\/em> guy), wrote the first draft of what would become the stage musical when he was a sophomore at Wesleyan University. This was 1999. The following year a Wesleyan student theatre group put on the show, a one-act version that was, according to reviews of the time, &#8220;a hip-hop version of\u00a0<em>Rent<\/em>.&#8221; Obviously no one had seen\u00a0<em>Hamilton<\/em> yet and didn&#8217;t know this would be\u00a0<em>the<\/em>\u00a0style 20 years later. Reworked for trials in Connecticut in 2005, then produced off-Broadway in 2007 before making it to the Great White Way in 2008. Then there was\u00a0<em>Hamilton<\/em>, so\u00a0now Miranda can do whatever he wants. If that includes dusting off an old show I say go for it, because damn this one is good too. If you liked\u00a0<em>Hamilton<\/em> you&#8217;ll like\u00a0<em>In the Heights<\/em>. Which is like saying if you enjoy breathing you&#8217;ll like\u00a0<em>In the Heights<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Lin-Manuel, you got any more old shows lying around?<\/p>\n<p>Please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most people in the world I watched\u00a0In the Heights this past weekend. Watched it from the comfort of my home, which I guess at this point says more about me than about the state of the world. In the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3241\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3243,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}