
In the Heights tickets In the shadows a young man sprays graffiti onto a bodega awning, but In the Heights's artistic reverie is interrupted when the store owner, Usnavi, enters and chases him away. ("In The Heights") Usnavi opens In the Heights's bodega and supplies neighbors with their morning coffee and papers. We meet Abuela Claudia, who raised Usnavi, and Sonny, In the Heights's young cousin who helps with the store. Everyone's stories and dreams pass through this modest store front: In the Heights's friend Benny wants a promotion, the ladies who work at the salon want some gossip, and Vanessa, Usnavi's love interest, wants an apartment in a different part of town. Usnavi has a dream of In the Heights's own: to one day return to the island of In the Heights's roots, the Dominican Republic.
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