{"id":8723,"date":"2017-04-18T16:08:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T20:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=8723"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:57:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:57:31","slug":"in-the-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/in-the-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Playhouse to Present &#8216;In the Heights&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kzoo.edu\/festivalplayhouse\">The Festival Playhouse<\/a> of Kalamazoo College will present \u201cIn the Heights,\u201d its final production of the academic year, from May 11-14 at the Nelda K. Balch Playhouse, 129 Thompson St., in Kalamazoo. The musical, written by \u201cHamilton\u201d creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, maintains the season\u2019s theme, \u201cBroadway Firsts: Stories of \u2018Outsider\u2019 Cultural Landmarks in American Theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8759\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8759\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8759\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/DSC_1215-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"In the Heights\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/DSC_1215-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/DSC_1215-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/DSC_1215-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/DSC_1215-451x300.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/DSC_1215.jpg 1376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of &#8220;In The Heights&#8221; celebrates as they sing &#8220;Carnaval Del Barrio.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Broadway show premiered in 2008, exploring three days in the lives of several characters from the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Washington Heights in New York City. The score features hip-hop, Latin, salsa, merengue and soul music.<\/p>\n<p>Bodega owner Usnavi is dating Vanessa, who works in a beauty salon. He dreams of opening a bar in his home country, the Dominican Republic. He soon realizes he sold a winning lottery ticket worth $96,000, prompting others in the neighborhood to discuss how Usnavi and Claudia, who raised Usnavi after the death of his parents, would spend the money.<\/p>\n<p>Nina loves Benny, a shy, young African-American man who worked for Nina\u2019s parents for years. Nina\u2019s father opposes their relationship because he wants Nina to finish her education at Stanford University. She doesn\u2019t want her father to bankrupt himself paying for her education, but her father is prepared to sell his car-service business for her sake.<\/p>\n<p>The shows start at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 11-Saturday, May 13, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 14. Kalamazoo College students, faculty and staff are admitted free with their school ID. The general public may <a href=\"https:\/\/festivalplayhouse.ludustickets.com\/index.php\">purchase tickets online<\/a> or call the Playhouse box office at 269-337-7333 for more information. Reservations are encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/kzoo.edu\/festivalplayhouse\">Festival Playhouse website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Festival Playhouse of Kalamazoo College will present \u201cIn the Heights,\u201d its final production of the academic year, from May 11-14 at the Nelda K. Balch Playhouse, 129 Thompson St., in Kalamazoo. 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Balch Playhouse, 129 Thompson St., in Kalamazoo. The musical, written by \u201cHamilton\u201d creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, maintains the season\u2019s theme, \u201cBroadway Firsts: Stories of \u2018Outsider\u2019 Cultural Landmarks in American Theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8759\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8759\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8759\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/DSC_1215-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"In the Heights\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of &#8220;In The Heights&#8221; celebrates as they sing &#8220;Carnaval Del Barrio.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Broadway show premiered in 2008, exploring three days in the lives of several characters from the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Washington Heights in New York City. The score features hip-hop, Latin, salsa, merengue and soul music.<\/p>\n<p>Bodega owner Usnavi is dating Vanessa, who works in a beauty salon. He dreams of opening a bar in his home country, the Dominican Republic. He soon realizes he sold a winning lottery ticket worth $96,000, prompting others in the neighborhood to discuss how Usnavi and Claudia, who raised Usnavi after the death of his parents, would spend the money.<\/p>\n<p>Nina loves Benny, a shy, young African-American man who worked for Nina\u2019s parents for years. Nina\u2019s father opposes their relationship because he wants Nina to finish her education at Stanford University. She doesn\u2019t want her father to bankrupt himself paying for her education, but her father is prepared to sell his car-service business for her sake.<\/p>\n<p>The shows start at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 11-Saturday, May 13, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 14. Kalamazoo College students, faculty and staff are admitted free with their school ID. The general public may <a href=\"https:\/\/festivalplayhouse.ludustickets.com\/index.php\">purchase tickets online<\/a> or call the Playhouse box office at 269-337-7333 for more information. Reservations are encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/kzoo.edu\/festivalplayhouse\">Festival Playhouse website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18150,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions\/18150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8723"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=8723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}