#ithaesthetic

[ninasfireescape]

female driven musicals 11/? >>> in the heights (music and lyrics by lin-manuel miranda, book by quiara alegría hudes)

“she saved everything we gave her every little scrap of paper and our lives are in these boxes while the woman who held us is gone but we go on, we grow”

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in the heights aesthetics >>> sonny de la vega x graffiti pete

“i can hook you up. but it will take me all night.”

“no one knows about this except you and me, ok?”

[they kiss]

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in the heights aesthetics >>> usnavi de la vega x vanessa otilia garcía

“good morning, vanessa! if it isn’t the loveliest girl in the place.”

“you’ve got some schmutz on your face.”

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in the heights aesthetics >>> nina rosario x benny

well, how do you say "kiss me"? bésame and how do you say "hold me"? abrázame al amanecer  a t  s u n r i s e

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in the heights aesthetics >>> carla

“my mom is dominican-cuban, my dad is from chile and pr which means       i’m chiledominicurican…but i always say i’m from queens”

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in the heights aesthetics >>> sonny de la vega “the rent is escalatin’, the rich are penetratin’, we pay our corporations when we should be demonstratin’. what about immigration? politicians be hatin’. racism in this nation’s gone from latent to blatant!”

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in the heights aesthetics >>> abuela claudia

“ay carajo it’s hot. but that’s okay. mamá would say ‘paciencia y fe.’“

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in the heights aesthetics >>> usnavi de la vega

“yeah i’m a streetlight chillin’ in the heat. i illuminate the stories of the people in the street. some have happy endings, some are bittersweet. but i know them all and that’s what makes my life complete”