In the Weeds of ‘In the Heights’

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A conversation about bringing musicals to the big screen, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s artistic choices and the critical blowback to the film’s casting. Guests: Sandra Garcia, Isabelia Herrera and Lena Wilson.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The New York Times Popcast, your love and hate.
0:05.8	If you know you know, of music, music, and criticism, I am your host, John Caramonica.
0:24.6	Some of you are exulting right now, and probably some of y'all are cringing.
0:29.7	I understand how this functions.
0:32.1	That was in the Heights, the title track from In the Heights, the movie, which is the adaptation
0:37.0	of the Tony winning Broadway musical in the Heights, the product of Limonwell Miranda,
0:43.0	a later of Hamilton in the Heights was just released.
0:46.4	It's in theaters, it's on HBO Max, which is where I saw it.
0:50.2	It is the maybe the first kind of big, loud movie release of the post pandemic era of this
0:58.7	scale, at least, and it is causing quite a stir.
1:03.2	Many, many people love it, and are embracing it.
1:05.7	There are also very intense conversations about representation, colorism, and more that
1:11.0	have been brought up in the press and critical cycle following the release.
1:15.3	Today on Popcast, we're going to have two segments.
1:19.2	First is a Belia Herrera and Sandra Garcia are here, and we're going to talk about the movie,
1:23.6	the premiere, and a lot of the critical conversations that's been going on around the film.
1:27.4	Later, Lena Wilson is going to call in with the musical theater, energy, and talk about
1:32.1	the differences between in the Heights, the stage play, and in the Heights, the film.
1:37.3	But first is a Belia's here, Sandra's here, hello, welcome.
1:41.7	Hi.
1:42.7	Hi.
1:44.7	By way of introduction.
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