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...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...
...That’s an impossible question to answer. I can tell you the most important musical to “In the Heights” is “Fiddler on the Roof.” A lot of people think it’s “West Side Story,” but it’s actually “Fiddler,” because it really tries to paint a portrait of a community in the midst of change, and we were going for the same thing—although with different demographics and different...
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...
...reason that I got involved with the event is that I think very little has been said about censorship in certain totalitarian regimes,” says Ivet A. Bell ’13, who has been working to raise funding and publicity through the Undergraduate Council. Bell recognizes the importance of Unrue’s efforts: “She’s trying to bring students to an event that could perhaps be confined to a literary community, but I hope that it won’t be, and that it will attract the interest of various groups...