InTheHeights production designer Nelson Coates breaks down how he built the neighborhood seen in the movie
had an important task from Lin-Manuel Miranda: The bodegas for the film adaptation of the stage show needed to be located east of Broadway, “because that was a historic Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban neighborhood.”Jon M. Chu
The script also had one salon, and yet this intersection had within its confines six different barbershops and salons. I knew I had to obfuscate those and then come up with our spot. The southwest had the potential for the bodega; the southeast corner had a series of townhouses. Cinematically, it was weak. I pitched that we actually build the salon, or at least the facade there to give the strength to the intersection.
The majority of our shooting schedule is actually onstage. The inside of Usnavi’s bedroom and the inside of the car service were all onstage. Jon wanted Usnavi to refer to it in the opening number I had to find old Caribbean maps, and we had to see Cuba and the end of Florida because then people know where it is. But I had to make the map unique and different.
Park officials said they’d never allowed anybody to film in the pool. They were insistent that it open on the same opening day and [told us] that it takes a certain amount of time to fill that pool.
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