IN THE HEIGHTS Comes to Orange County Performing Arts Center 8/3-15

IN THE HEIGHTS, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards and the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, is coming to the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa from August 3 - 15, 2010. Note: In The Heights will play the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles June 22 - July 25, 2010 prior to the Center's engagement.

IN THE HEIGHTS tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York's Washington Heights
neighborhood - a place 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. It's a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind.

The Washington Post said IN THE HEIGHTS is "pure Broadway. An evening of old-style, innocent
pleasure" and Ben Brantley of The New York Times enthused IN THE HEIGHTS is "an exuberant,
animated shrine to the importance of family ties and being faithful to where you come from."
Tickets to see IN THE HEIGHTS start at $20 and will go on sale June 13. They will be available at
OCPAC.org, at the Center's Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa or by calling
714.556.2787.

For inquiries about group ticket discounts for 15 or more, call the Group Services office at
714.755.0236. The TTY number is 714.556.2746. The 2 p.m. performance on Saturday, August 14 will be sign-language interpreted.

The Center applauds Wells Fargo for its generous support of the 2009-2010 Broadway and Curtain Call Series. Cox Communications is the Media Partner of the Center's 2009-2010 Broadway Series.
IN THE HEIGHTS opened on Broadway to wide critical acclaim March 9, 2008 and continues to play on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. In addition to winning the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the show's creator, won the Tony Award for Best Music and Lyrics, Andy Blankenbuehler won for Best Choreography, and Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman won for Best Orchestrations. The original cast recording won the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, and Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to produce a feature film based on the smash-hit musical.

In The Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams, a Great Performances special chronicling the personal
stories of composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Broadway cast of IN THE HEIGHTS in the
months leading up to opening night, premiered on PBS stations across the country in May 2009 and will be re-aired in Orange County on KOCE-TV on Thursday, May 27 and Monday, May 31 at 10 p.m. With a book by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee Quiara Alegría Hudes and conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda, IN THE HEIGHTS is directed by Joseph A. Callaway Award-winner and Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail. The music arrangements are by Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman.

IN THE HEIGHTS also features Tony-nominated scenic design (Anna Louizos), costumes (Paul Tazewell), lighting (Howell Binkley), and sound (ACME Sound Partners). IN THE HEIGHTS is produced by Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller, Jill Furman, Sander Jacobs, Robyn Goodman/Walt Grossman, Peter Fine and Sonny Everett/Mike Skipper with associate producers Ruth Hendel and Harold Newman. For more information, please visit intheheightsthemusical.com.

Orange County Performing Arts Center
The Orange County Performing Arts Center presents a wide variety of the most significant national and international productions of music, dance and theater to the people of Southern California. It is committed to supporting artistic excellence on all of its stages and offering unsurpassed experiences, engaging the entire community in new and exciting ways through the unique power of live performance and an array of inspiring programs.

As Orange County's largest non-profit arts organization, the Center owns and operates the 3,000-seat Segerstrom Hall and intimate 250-seat Founders Hall, which opened in 1986, and the 2,000-seat Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, which opened in 2006 and also houses the 500-seat Samueli Theater, and the Lawrence and Kristina Dodge Education Center's studio performance space and Boeing Education Lab. These state-of-the-art facilities are united by a community arts plaza.

The Center's Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and community plaza, along with facilities of the adjacent Tony® Award-winning South Coast Repertory and a site designated as the new home of the Orange County Museum of Art, are located at Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

The Orange County Performing Arts Center presents a broad range of programming each season for
audiences of all ages from throughout Orange County, and beyond, including international ballet and dance, national tours of top Broadway shows, intimate performances of jazz and cabaret, contemporary artists, classical music performed by renowned chamber orchestras and ensembles, family-friendly programming, free performances open to the public from outdoor movie screenings to dancing on the plaza and many other special events.

It offers many education programs designed to inspire young people through the arts. These programs reach hundreds of thousands of students of all ages with vital arts-in-education programs, enhancing their studies and enriching their lives well into the future.

The Orange County Performing Arts Center is proud to serve as the artistic home to the region's major performing arts organizations: Pacific Symphony, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County and the Pacific Chorale.

For more information, visit OCPAC.org. The Center can also be found online at Blogger, YouTube,
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Flickr.

In the Heights
Orange County Performing Arts Center - Segerstrom Hall
August 3 - 15, 2010
Tuesday - Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Sunday at 1 and 6:30 p.m.
*The 2 p.m. performance on Saturday, August 14 will be sign-language interpreted.
Orange County Performing Arts Center - Segerstrom Hall 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA
Tickets: Start at $20; tickets on sale June 13

In person - The Center Box Office
600 Town Center Drive
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily

Online - OCPAC.org
Phone - 714.556.2787
Open 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. daily
TTY number - 714.556.2746
Group Services - 714.755.0236

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