Even a stripped-down 'In the Heights' still flies
The 2008 Broadway musical "In the Heights," the story of a mostly Latino community struggling to both move up and stay together, is now in its waning days as a touring attraction. Since the show last was in Chicago — in late 2009 — the initial, Broadway-caliber touring cast has been quietly replaced by nonunion actors, most of whom are very young and inexperienced. And for anyone who experienced the thril…