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How 'In The Heights' Production Designer Nelson Coates Constructed the Neighborhood by Jazz Tangcay

"In the Heights" production designer Nelson Coates had an important task from Lin-Manuel Miranda: The bodegas for the film adaptation of the stage show needed to be located east of Broadway, "because that was a historic Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban neighborhood." Anything west of that would be predominantly Irish, Russian or Jewish. The last […]

SOURCE: Variety at 08:51AM on June 10, 2021

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