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1. RareRare says:

   May 4, 2010 at 11:43 pm

   I saw this Latino rip-off of “Rent” and “West Side Story” last week. Many audience members left at the intermission. I stayed hoping for a better second act. It didn’t happen. This is muzak garbage. The script is sophomoric and the unit set is boring. The highly acclaimed choreography is out of the “Solid Gold” dance academy.

   I tried to listen to this CD before I left for New York and was appalled by its mediocrity. It is too mundane for words.

   Save your money.
   Rating: 1 / 5
2. Michelle Grand says:

   May 4, 2010 at 11:46 pm

   As a Puerto Rican New Yorker who lived in Washington Heights for 5 years (and whose mother came there from the island decades ago), I was honestly expecting this show to be sweet and cute — and perhaps even clever. But I was HORRIFIED with what I saw and heard. It was full of stereotypes and puerile attempts at humor. The cloying sentimentality and downright DISHONESTY offended me. I sat there, ashamed. This kind of fare sets us BACK! We need a Latino “Passing Strange”!!! And the dreadful music — which you’d hear on this album — is utterly forgettable. Goodness, we have a long way to go before we have a sophisticated, intelligent Latino musical. Even Paul Simon’s “Capeman” was closer insofar as he collaborated with the likes of Oscar Hernandez (and at least the book of that musical attempted to explore provocative themes). I can’t say enough to condemn this dubious work. Like another reviewer, I would give it fewer stars if I could. Do yourself a favor and check out the brilliant “Passing Strange” instead.
   Rating: 1 / 5
3. Cy Reese says:

   May 5, 2010 at 2:25 am

   Admittedly, each new generation “shocks” the preceding one with their taste in music, and I must admit to being shocked and being part of the older set. Yet, that being said, I cannot see how rap music can be elevated to the art form which is the Broadway stage; well, perhaps it can, but why would anyone want to pay $100 a seat when they can just go to any corner in Harlem, Spanish Harlem, or Washington Heights – the Heights in the title – and get a free exhibition performed by the real originators of the musical idiom? I was raised in the South Bronx, and I am Hispanic, so I have no prejudice against Latin music, but when I go to the theatre, I expect to be transported to another dimension, and if it’s a musical, I want the music to soar above the mundane. Perhaps, if we considered this musical in the light of “West Side Story”, what I am trying to say would be clearer: Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim were able to take New York’s social problems of the 50′s and 60′s, e.g, gang warfare and prejudice against Puertorricans, set them against an ugly background (New York City’s west-side slums), and still create a musical theatre experience that can be justly described as a work of beauty. Lin-Manuel Miranda has also focused on an lower-class neighborhood in New York and it’s problems, but can we honestly say that his music transports the audience to another realm? Can any of us come out of “In the Heights” with it’s music in our minds? At least, let’s give credit to the Tony Award voters who are willing to recognize new forms of talent and music, something they did not do when West Side Story had it’s original run on Broadway. (Ironically, it took Hollywood to recognize West Side Story for the classic that it was and is: the film won ten oscars including Best Movie of the year.)
   Rating: 3 / 5
4. Kathleen Day says:

   May 5, 2010 at 3:10 am

   This sountrack needs a roadmap. There are some great songs, but WAY too many stories. Don’t look for original ways to solve conflict. Most people problems are introduced and resolved before you even have a chance to care about them.

   You will want to read the synopsis on this one
   Rating: 3 / 5
5. Albert Levy says:

   May 5, 2010 at 5:47 am

   My title says it all. Quality mdse and getting a better price. I have many things here that I would love to sell but I am not that savy of what is going on. I need to find someonr who can help me. I will one day
   Rating: 5 / 5