Lin-Manuel Miranda

Released: June 3, 2008

Featuring: Mandy Gonzalez Christopher Jackson

Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Producer: Joel Moss Kurt Deutsch Bill Sherman Lin-Manuel Miranda Andres Levin Alex Lacamoire

[BENNY]
Check one two three... Check one two three...
This is Benny on the dispatch. Yo!
Atención, yo, attention!
It’s Benny, and I’d like to mention
I’m on the microphone this mornin’
Honk ya horn if you want it!

Okay, we got traffic on the west side
Get off at 79th, and take the left side
Of Riverside Drive, and ya might slide
West End’s ya best friend if you catch the lights
And don’t take the Deegan;
Manny Ramirez is in town this weekend
Sorry Dominicans, take Route Eighty-seven
You ain’t getting back in again
Hold up a minute

[NINA]
Benny, hey—

[BENNY]
Nina, you’re home today!

[NINA]
Any sign—

[BENNY]
...Of your folks, they’re on their way!

[NINA]
Anyway—

[BENNY]
It’s good to see your face—

[NINA]
Anytime—

[BENNY]
Hold up a minute, wait!
You used to run this dispatch, right?

[NINA]
Once or twice—

[BENNY]
Well check the technique! Yo!
There’s a traffic accident I have to mention
At the intersection of 10th Ave and the Jacob Javitz Convention Center
And check it, don’t get stuck in the rubber-neckin’
On a Hundred-Ninety-Second, there’s a double-decker bus wreck!
Now listen up, we got a special guest!

[BENNY & (NINA)]
Live and direct from a year out west! (Benny...)
Welcome her back, 'cause she looks mad stressed! (Benny...)
Nina Rosario, the barrio’s best!

[BENNY]
Honk your horns…
She’s smiling… say hello!

[NINA]
Hello!
Good morning!

I better find my folks
Thanks for the welcome wagon

[BENNY]
Anytime. Anytime, Nina

Wait here with me
It’s getting hot outside, turn up the A.C
Stay here with me

Lin-Manuel Miranda is an award-winning American writer, composer, playwright, and actor. He created and starred in two hit musicals, In the Heights and Hamilton (2015), an epic adaptation of Ron Chernow’s biography of the American founding father. Miranda also co-wrote the music and lyrics for Disney’s Moana (2016). The film’s main theme, “How Far I’ll Go”, was nominated for the 2017 Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Personally, Miranda has received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Hamilton), three Tony Awards (Best Original Score for both ITH and Hamilton, Best Book of a Musical for Hamilton), two Grammys (Best Musical Theatre Album ITH, Hamilton), and an Emmy (Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for “Bigger”). He was the recipient of the 2015 MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant”. He has a star on the Puerto Rican Walk of Fame and will receive a Hollywood star in 2018.

Awards for musicals

more tracks from the album

In The Heights (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

From the album

In The Heights (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2008)

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Lin-Manuel Miranda

In The Heights (Original Broadway Cast Recording)