lin manuel miranda played in the heights with adriana nadal.
lin manuel miranda played in the heights with adriana nadal.
who does lin manuel miranda play in in the heights?
adriana nadal
bullet::::- usnavi de la vega is the narrator of the play's exposition and a major character throughout; he is the owner of a small bodega in washington heights called de la vega bodega. he was originally played by lin manuel miranda, writer of the musical. he was named after one of the first sights his parents saw when they arrived in america, a ship with the sign "us navy" on it. abuela claudia, the neighborhood matriarch, "practically raised" him when his parents both died during his early childhood. he dreams of moving to the dominican republic. he is in love with vanessa.
in the heights
miranda was born in new york city and raised in the neighborhood of inwood, the son of dr. luz towns-miranda, a clinical psychologist, and luis a. miranda, jr., a democratic party consultant who advised new york city mayor ed koch. miranda has one older sister, luz, who is the chief financial officer of the mirram group. during childhood and his teens, he spent at least one month each year with his grandparents in vega alta, puerto rico. he is of mostly puerto rican descent. his mother's ancestors include an interracial couple, sophie, who was black, and david towns, who was white; from the early 1800s, this couple spent their married life trying to outrun slavery as laws and governments changed around them. ensuing branches of the towns family primarily married mexican spouses in texas and mexico, and miranda, for his part, has described his ancestry as a quarter mexican. the name "lin-manuel" was inspired by a poem about the vietnam war, "nana roja para mi hijo lin manuel", by the puerto rican writer josé manuel torres santiago.
lin-manuel miranda