in-the-heights

No Sweeps at the Tonys

cityfile · 06/16/08 10:17AM

Not too many surprises at last night's yawner of a Tonys. Cementing his golden boy rep, 28-year-old Lin-Manuel Miranda's salsa-dipped In The Heights (derided by the Post's Michael Riedel today as "as zesty as an enchilada from Taco Bell") won Best Musical in addition to three other statues; Tracy Letts's August: Osage County predictably dominated the play category, winning five Tonys including Best Play; South Pacific won more awards than any production—seven—including Best Revival of a Musical; ribald '60s sex comedy Boeing-Boeing won for Best Revival of a Play; and Patti LuPone won the Tony for Best Actress. A complete list of the winners and losers is here.

"In The Heights" Reaches Broadway, Average Guys Rejoice

Hamilton Nolan · 02/20/08 10:49AM

Often, the Broadway musical crowds can seem to be totally enveloped by two basic groups: The theater gays, and the theater tourists. Which is just fine. But when an average chump (hello!) not blessed with either the Broadway savvy of the first group or the utter lack of self-consciousness of the second has an occasion to wander into the theater, it's hard to know what to see. So we are here to give all the middlebrow people among you this valuable advice: It's all about "In the Heights."