With Broadway original musical “Mamma Mia!” becoming a movie that grosses $558.8 million worldwide, more than any other movie musical, it is no wonder that Universal Pictures decided to tune up another stage musical transformation. They have acquired the rights to Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “In the Heights” into a feature.
Lin-Manuel Miranda must be one happy fellow. He created the musical, wrote the lyrics and music and has played the starring role through its Off Broadway and Broadway runs. It looks like Miranda will reprise his role in the film.
Quiara Alegria Hudes, who wrote the book for the show, will write the screen adaptation.
According to Variety, the musical takes place over three days in the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, where a bodega (Spanish for grocery store) owner (Manuel) inherits his late grandmother’s lottery winnings and plans to shutter his store and retire on a beach in the Dominican Republic. Trying to say farewell to the characters that live on the block, he realizes that his neighbors are his real family, and he’s torn about leaving.
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