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...without a huge star in the cast. “A lot of this movie lives and dies on the chemistry of the cast,” said Evans, “Even if the script’s great and the director’s great, if you don??t care about the characters and the relationships they have with one another then I think we missed the ball...
...Manuel Miranda: I’m a fan of storytelling, and I’m a fan of lots of different genres of music. I think that one of the things that unfortunately sometimes happens is you get people who only listen to musicals writing musicals and they don??t see what those composers were pulling from. So with “Heights,” I tried to bring in the music I love and use those types of music to tell stories. I’m always compelled by good storytelling, whether it?...
...think most writers try to put out in the world what they don??t see, and I wanted to write the kind of musical I’ve always wanted to see—and hip-hop is sorely lacking. I mean, if you’ve seen hip-hop in musicals before “Heights”—at least Broadway ones—if hip-hop is used, it’s ironically commenting, “Hey we’re rapping and we’re lame...
Brown University hosts a similar event in which a persecuted writer is featured every year. Yet, Unrue argues, “I don??t see too many things where people from a variety of countries are brought together. I think that’s just really a special sort of opportunity to see things in different ways, and you can do that at Harvard...
...biggest challenge has been finding the best way to immediately communicate the fear, danger and threat of a space, and how you escape and don??t escape from that in [Katurian’s] stories,” Shields says...