The Aisle Seat: “In the Heights’

Thomas Burchfield
3 min readJul 5, 2021

In his first trip to a movie theatre since the Big Lockdown began, your correspondent takes delight on the new film musical from the creator of Hamilton.

Somewhere, Busby Berkeley is smiling

What better way to stagger out from Covid’s dim cave into bright sunlight than by going to see the new film musical In the Heights.

Adapted from a 2005 Broadway musical with songs by Lin Manuel Miranda (Hamilton) and book by…

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Thomas Burchfield

Essayist, film critic, humorist, and novelist. The author of 1920s noir gangster novel , BUTCHERTOWN, available at Amazon and other booksellers.