“The pulse of this musical, it feels close to me,” he says.
Now Ramos is starring — and singing and dancing and rapping — in the film adaptation of In the Heights.
I’m grateful that we have a movie about a neighborhood like Washington Heights where we see …
Ramos had a dual role as abolitionist John Laurens and Philip Hamilton in the Broadway production and film version of Hamilton.
But, it’s funny, Washington Heights, the pulse of that neighborhood, the music and the food and just people yelling from their windows out to someone downstairs or the kids opening the fire hydrants — there were all these similarities between the neighborhood I grew up in and Washington Heights.
All my applications got withdrawn because I missed the deadline for the financial aid forms. And she was like, “Hope is not lost” — because I was feeling hopeless.
I just need a chance.” We got emotional and I shared things about my life, how I grew up.
I was sitting in my dressing room and I was like, let me at least try to take a nap or something.
You need surgery.” I literally said, “Can we do this next week?” “No, we have to do this now.” …
Then the doctors said, “Yeah, you gotta be out of your show for a month.” I’m like, “Bro, if I’m out of the show for a month, I don’t get paid!” We just got to Broadway, broke! Think about it: You’re going through this life or death situation …
I still got to wake up some days and be like, yo, my man, you’re good enough.