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The Amazing Story Behind In The Heights Getting Made · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Derived from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. The trailer for In
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  Speaker 1: the Heights made its online debut yesterday. It's rocketing around
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  Speaker 1: the internet, but it's the upcoming feature based on the
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  Speaker 1: Tony winning hit musical by Lynn Manuel Miranda that launched
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  Speaker 1: his career before he created Hamilton's It's a movie over
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  Speaker 1: a decade into making, and a musical that first started
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  Speaker 1: being developed twenty years ago when Lynn was only a
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  Speaker 1: freshman at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Dream and Big in
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  Speaker 1: his dorm room, but destiny seemed to be on his side.
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  Speaker 1: With only one song written, Lynn applied to put on
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  Speaker 1: a production of the play at the school and was
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  Speaker 1: surprisingly granted a stage for three days. He or day
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  Speaker 1: and night for no school credit and creating an eighty
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  Speaker 1: minute musical that's pretty different from his eventual Tony winning version.
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  Speaker 1: But two seniors who happened to be in the crowd
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  Speaker 1: one night were blown away and told Lynne they had
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  Speaker 1: planned to start a production company after graduation. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: think much of it at the time, but two years
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  Speaker 1: later they reconnected and slowly developed In the Heights into
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  Speaker 1: what it is today. The new In the Heights trailer
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  Speaker 1: is incredibly infectious. You'll make you want to get up
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  Speaker 1: and dance. We posted it up on air with Ryan
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  Speaker 1: dot Com from Hollywood,