In the Heights

But, uh, yeah, I think that's kind of all I had on my docket next weekend.

I've got in the Heights with you two days after that, or three, I should say we've got much ado, uh, Nick and I, and then, yeah, I think those are the shows, the shows that we've got on the slate right now.

What, uh, what day are you seeing in the Heights? Uh,

We're going Sunday the 15th.

Oh, the 15th.

I'm going

on the 15th.

I could go on the 8th, but I was told the 15th that we were doing the Bills game that afternoon, and then we're going to In the Heights that night.

Born in Australia of Filipino and British heritage, Victoria is now in her fourth year as co-artistic director of Sydney's Hayes Theatre Company, and in 2024 was honoured with the Asian Australian Leadership Award for Arts and Culture.

Her musical direction credits include My Brilliant Career, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, In the Heights, Ride the Cyclone, Ma Boulay, and a wonderfully queer reimagining of Oklahoma, while her performing career has taken her from the Sydney Opera House to Soho Theatre in London, Club Cumming in New York, Glastonbury and the Edinburgh Fringe.

She's also a creator in her own right, with commissions including Smashed, The Nightcap, The Sight and The Extraordinary, and then you go, the Valley Myers Project.

And then there's her advocacy and mentorship work, and a career that has seen her play everything from violin and accordion to theremin and musical saw.

Awesome.

she had a broken foot and she's like bopping along like you would never even know it was amazing um also on wednesday then her um her like walking boot came off she's officially out of the like broken foot camp And then on Friday, the whole family, all four of us went to see the revival of In the Heights at City Center.

And it's so good.

I have always, like, it's always been kind of my first love, but I found it after it had already closed on Broadway.

And it's so much better than the movie.

even though I do love the movie and it's it was fantastic the show was great I think they are still selling some tickets if you can get in there go see it it's it's fabulous it you would never know that it was written 20 years ago like it feels so fresh it feels so genuine you know I think there's there's a real kind of groundedness to it that Hamilton loses a little bit.

But I think there's something really tangible about the world of In the Heights, because it is the world.

know when he sings like get off at 180 first and take the escalator like that's how you get to my house except you don't take the escalator you take the elevator side like that's that's how close we are to like the other side of the same same subway station and like and it's just it's a great show it's you know listen to the album if you don't want to if you can't get to the to the show but it's it's worth trying to see it's it's a great venue i've never seen anything in city center before it's a beautiful beautiful theater.