Anthony Ramos as Usnavi in ‘In The Heights’ AP PHOTO
Anthony Ramos as Usnavi in ‘In The Heights’ AP PHOTO


NEW YORK:
As a student at Wesleyan, Lin-Manuel Miranda began writing what would become "In the Heights," the musical that would launch him as a playwright and performer and that would lead, two decades later, to Jon Chu's upcoming lavish big-screen adaptation. He was motivated, like any confident young artist, by ambition. But also by something else.

"I had a real wake-up call when I was 18, 19 and starting to study theater. The fear was: I'm going into a field that has no space for me, that has no roles for me. It was sort of that thing of: No one's going to write your dream show. The cavalry isn't coming," Miranda said in a recent interview.

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