How Lin-Manuel Miranda Revolutionized Broadway in just the first 3 minutes of In the Heights!
0:00 Lin The Synthesizer
3:02 Openings Can Make a Hit
4:07 Modern Overture
7:11 Graffiti Pete
8:19 Clave
11:26 "Lights Up"
13:31 Slant Rhymes
15:02 Syntactical Self
15:39 Piragüero
18:41 Abuela Claudia
18:56 96st Street
20:41 Take the A Train
21:16 Gentrification
22:27 Chorus

Additional research by Annika Hoseth
Produced by Monica M. Lee

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