And the name got me halfway there, and then I actually pulled an all-nighter, figuring it all out. So he predicts rain on her wedding day - well, she’s the most stressed-out person in the world, of course it’s gonna rain on her wedding day! - and other incredibly predictable predictions, right? “I’m gonna lose my hair!” “My goldfish is gonna die!” Goldfish don’t live that long! But everyone telling these stories with this air of promise, so when it’s looked at in a refracted light, it would be different. So the gossip number was the pitch, and then the other idea became that they’ll all tell a kind of ghost story about him - but when you actually meet Bruno, you’ll realize there’s actually nothing scary about him. So my brother-in-law was like “Is this song about me?,” because he was living with us. Plus, it was amplified by the fact that I was in lockdown with my in-laws at the time I was writing it. How do we give them all complexity and real estate? So I pitched a gossip number as, “We can learn a little bit about everyone by what they choose to whisper about,” you know? I think that’s a very universal thing, of what you can talk about in front of this family member versus that family member.
I can hear the hurt and frustration over colorism, of feeling unseen in the feedback.The challenge of the piece was always - and remains - that there are so many characters. I'm seeing the discussion around Afro-Latino representation in our film this weekend, and it is clear that many in our dark-skinned Afro-Latino community don't feel sufficiently represented within it, particularly among the leading roles. And over the past 20 years all I wanted was for us - ALL of us - to feel seen. Miranda, who wrote the music and lyrics for the musical with the book by Quiara Alegría Hudes, said on Twitter: "I started writing In The Heights because I didn't feel seen. (One main character, Benny, is Black and played by the non-Latinx actor Corey Hawkins.) Critics of the movie have remarked that the real-life Washington Heights is heavily Afro-Latinx.
The film version of the hit Broadway musical, which is set in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood, only includes Afr0-Latinx performers in background and dance roles. Movies The Limitations Of 'Latinidad': How Colorism Haunts 'In The Heights'
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