It makes the second half of the action drag and waver back and forth between the Break into Three and Dark Night of the Soul in screenplay terms. It is almost, but not quite, where the film’s second act begins. The act one finale, “Tonight Belongs To You,” comes too early in the film. This was not pulled off successfully in the film adaptation of The Prom, for example. "Blackout," the song that ends act one in the stage play, is squarely in the middle of the film where it should be. In a community on the brink of change, full of hopes and dreams, the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you and which you. That’s the natural pause in a movie as opposed to a play. The pure energy of Washington Heights pulses with the poetry of rap, soaring ballads and powerful Latin-inspired grooves resulting in one of the most original scores to hit Broadway in years. The “intermission” that Usnavi suggests in In the Heights occurs a couple of songs and scenes after where the intermission falls in the stage play, but it’s the act-two break in the screenplay. The action in a film simply doesn’t always hinge on the midpoint the way it does in theatre. Lovett getting the idea to turn people into pies in Sweeney Todd. It’s Christine declaring her intentions to leave the opera and the Phantom swearing revenge in Phantom of the Opera. The cast of 'In the Heights' by Playhouse Stage Company rehearses prior to the opening of show in summer 2019. It’s a wedding that ends in a fight in Fiddler on the Roof. It’s… a lot of small character things in Rent, similar to In the Heights on stage. ![]() It’s Elphaba’s “transformation” into the Wicked Witch in Wicked. 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.
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