Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Why all the "In the Heights" Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 4:12pmJust gotta balance out the "Passing Strange" thread.
#2re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 4:15pmBecause it's amazing. Wonderful music, funny, sweet, and FUN!
#2re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 4:15pm
I love both IN THE HEIGHTS & PASSING STRANGE...I agree yankee! there's no need to bash one show to show your devotion to another show.
YES! I love XANADU too... I am not bashing it... really! I am just being realistic! by saying I dont think it will win the TONYS, but NEVER NEVER I said that its a bad show!
Nunca Jamas!
J*
#3re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 4:16pm
C'mon...In the Heights.. raise your bandera!!
J*
Updated On: 6/14/08 at 04:16 PM
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#4re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 4:17pm
Because that's what we do!
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#4re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 4:17pmDouble love.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
Updated On: 6/14/08 at 04:17 PM
#6re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 4:18pm
Scaryotypes (PS) and In the Heights' fans should be friends!
#7re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 4:21pmFor me... I just felt like it's been a really long time since we've had a show that's bursting with energy and so full of life the way In The Heights is. In The Heights celebrates a community of people who care for and about each other, and IMO, does so without an overdone sugarcoat or ignoring the reality of hardship. In a few words, it has a big heart -- and there are not enough of those anymore. I hope they win Best Musical tomorrow.
#8re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 4:21pmjay, youre my best bud here! but c'mon xanadu and in the heights??? yuck!
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#10re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 4:48pm
<< For me... I just felt like it's been a really long time since we've had a show that's bursting with energy and so full of life the way In The Heights is. In The Heights celebrates a community of people who care for and about each other, and IMO, does so without an overdone sugarcoat or ignoring the reality of hardship. In a few words, it has a big heart -- and there are not enough of those anymore. I hope they win Best Musical tomorrow.
>>
Emcee,
I wont even ATTEMPT to say it better !!! BRAVO !!!
#12re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 4:54pm
<< the ITH book blows.
>>
Just for some comic relief... can you tell us why you think the book "blows" ? When you make comments like this one, but dont explain your reasoning, the assumption (at least by me) is that you didnt see the show.
Can you please explain why you think the book is so bad?
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#13re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 4:59pmBecause the score is great.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#14re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 5:01pmI just wish it were a little better. Same goes with Passing Strange.
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#15re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 5:05pm
Honey. I saw the show... three times, in fact.
the book is so fluffy and all over the place! Why the hell do they sing everything?
When the mother gets really mad at the father (and her daughter?), she sings it and is soo over the top. Why can't she just speak it?
It also all reminds me of a bad soap opera on Telemundo. Just absolutely ridiculous and weak.
I do enjoy the score, though. I just hate the book.
#16re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 5:07pmEmcee said it the best.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#17re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 5:12pm
Holla.
I really want to see it again.
#18re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 5:13pm
Me too.
Their lottery is pretty impossible. I'm 0 for 4, I think.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#19re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 5:13pm
Well, what Emmcee says means it makes a good topic for a show. Yet, I don't really connect to the score of ITH and even less to the one of Passing Strange which has so ridiculously bland lyrics (the ones of ITH are a little better). Similary about the music. So unless the books are really strong...
Then on the other hand, it's no strong season.
#20re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 5:14pmI won their lotto once, the second time I tried, but this was like... the week after it opened. It's hard now!
#21re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 5:24pm
"the book is so fluffy and all over the place! Why the hell do they sing everything?
When the mother gets really mad at the father (and her daughter?), she sings it and is soo over the top. Why can't she just speak it? "
It's a musical if you didn't know. There should be music.
#22re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 5:51pm
<< Honey. I saw the show... three times, in fact.
the book is so fluffy and all over the place! Why the hell do they sing everything?
When the mother gets really mad at the father (and her daughter?), she sings it and is soo over the top. Why can't she just speak it?
It also all reminds me of a bad soap opera on Telemundo. Just absolutely ridiculous and weak.
I do enjoy the score, though. I just hate the book. >>
First of all--- only my wife calls me honey... (sometimes)
Second of all--- you saw a show 3X, when you think the book "blows" ? That makes sense.
Its a musical. Hence, the singing. That was difficult... next--
(and they dont sing EVERYTHING, but since you brought it up)
They sang "everything" in "Caroline or Change", which was brilliant... So, if they sing everything, that would make the book blow?
They give Ms. Lopez something to sing, because she deserved it.
"Enough" is clearly not the best number in the show. So, that makes the book "blow"? Or was it the fact that they sing "everything"?
>> It also all reminds me of a bad soap opera on Telemundo. Just absolutely ridiculous and weak. >>
Fair enough... your opinion, but you still cant explain why- certainly, the two reasons you mentioned are not enough to make a book "blow"-
#23re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 5:59pm
Why the hell do they sing everything?
That quote alone is reminding me of my first read through of Guys and Dolls with the star who had never seen a musical. LOL.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#24re: Why all the 'In the Heights' Love?
Posted: 6/14/08 at 6:02pm
You're going to the show with me, emcee. We *will* win the lotto someday. And we can give the holla holla guys the standing ovation they deserve.
I'm not going to get into this discussion, but TooDarnHot, watch it with the Telemundo remarks. Not all telenovelas are cheesy and/or awful, not even that over the top. Regardless, ITH is hardly like a telenovela, and it's such an obvious/lame comparison to make, which imo is completely off the mark. What in ITH is melodramatic or over the top? Characters don't die in other musicals? Take the exact same storyline with white people (or any other ethnicity), and I doubt you'd call it a soap opera.
