IN THE HEIGHTS: SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
SYNOPSIS
From America’s hottest new musical mastermind, Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Moana) comes this quadruple Tony Award® winning ‘Best Musical’.
This summer, it’s lights up on Washington Heights, a close-knit neighbourhood in Manhattan, where the heat is stifling and the A-train is the only way out.
Trapped running a debt-ridden bodega, Usnavi longs for a simpler life in the Dominican Republic. Alongside him, a community as vibrant as the city itself yearns for change. A winning lottery ticket is sold, but to whom? Is it the family who long to send their daughter to an ivy league school; or the woman desperately trying to find a home?
Following a sold out, critically acclaimed season at Hayes Theatre Co in 2018, this salsa-fuelled contemporary musical returns to NSW for a strictly limited season this summer. Get ready to be on your feet, as the intoxicating salsa vibes from the live Latino-band will have you dancing all night long.
Photo: Clare Hawley
CAST AND CREW
PRODUCTION TEAM
Producer: Joshua Robson
Associate Producer: Neil Gooding
Director: Luke Joslin
Choreographer: Amy Campbell
Musical Director: Lucy Bermingham
Production Manager: Charlie Coy
Stage Manager: Cecilia Nelson
Assistant Stage Manager: Anna Sinclair
Lighting Design: Trudy Dalgleish
Lighting Programmer/Operator: Gintz Karklins
Costume Designer: Elizabeth Franklin
Set Supervisor: Matt Ryan
Sound Supervisor: Michael Waters
Sound Design/Operator: Tony Lorenz
Microphone Technician: Tanya Saint James
Lighting Crew: Chris Snape
Casting Director: Lynne Ruthven
BAND
Conductor/Keyboard 1: Lucy Bermingham
Drums: Emma Ford
Percussion: Alysa Portelli
Woodwind: Abi McCunn
Guitar: Michael Napoli
Bass: Tina Harris
Trumpet: Matthew Collins
Trombone: Ellie Shearer
Keyboard 2: Ben Kiehne
CAST
Usnavi: Stevie Lopez
Vanessa: Olivia Vasquez
Benny: Joe Kalou
Nina: Luisa Scrofani
Sonny: Marty Alix
Abuela Claudia: Margi de Ferranti
Daniela: Monique Montez
Carla: Libby Asciak
Kevin: Alexander Palacio
Camilla: Ana Maria Belo
Graffiti Pete: Stephen Tannos
Piragua Guy: Richard Valdez
ENSEMBLE
Yolanda: Michelle Rozario
Domingo (Dance Captain): Will Centurion
Sophia: Samantha Bruzzese
Fabian: Dayton Tavares
Mia: Romina Villafranca