Hey, Jon M. Chu, Lin-Manuel Miranda has a message for you. With each Chu’s movie Depraved and Miranda’s Lion King prequel Mufasa on the 2024 film schedule, the In The Heights collaborators are each on press runs and speaking lots about their respective musicals. Nonetheless, the Hamilton star’s message has to do with the 2021 film they labored on collectively and the choreography that’s seemingly featured in each it and Depraved.
Throughout an interview with CinemaBlend about Mufasa, Jeff McCobb informed Miranda that he had an interview with Chu developing, and he requested if the songwriter had a message for the director. In response, he determined to hilariously name his good friend and collaborator out for a similarity Depraved shares with Within the Heights, saying:
Here is my message. There’s the second in ‘One Quick Day’ the place they’re immediately in a salon, and the nail choreography is suspiciously acquainted to some nail choreography in Within the Heights. Was that an homage, or did you simply determine nobody actually noticed it the primary time?
So, right here’s the deal. Miranda was referring to the “No Me Diga” quantity in Within the Heights (which you’ll stream with a Max subscription). The scene takes place in a hair salon, and reveals Leslie Grace’s Nina getting a makeover from the salon girls as they gossip. Towards the tip of the tune, there’s a second the place a bunch of gals are getting manicures and there’s some very intricate nail choreography.
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In the meantime, in Depraved, throughout “One Quick Day,” Elphaba and Glinda find yourself in a salon, and there’s additionally some nice and complex nail choreography.
Are they the identical, was it an homage? That’s unclear in the meanwhile. Nonetheless, it’s apparent that Miranda was entertained by the similarities, and he made an awesome joke out of it.
Notably, each Within the Heights and Depraved had been directed by Chu and choreographed by Christopher Scott, and the 2 have been collaborating for a really very long time. And whereas these two movies are wildly totally different exterior of each being musicals, they function choreography and dance that’s related — and let me let you know, as a longtime fan of Scott, I really feel like I can spot his choreo shortly.
In fact, Depraved killed on the field workplace whereas, regardless of great evaluations, Within the Heights sadly flopped (in nice half due to COVID). So, the nail choreo was positively seen by extra folks just lately, and it’s definitely attainable that it was related or the identical to the second within the 2021 movie. Personally, I wish to suppose it’s a candy homage to the opposite Broadway adaptation Chu and Scott are finest recognized for, and I hope Lin-Manuel Miranda feels the identical approach.
Now, I would like to listen to Jon M. Chu’s response to this name out from his colleague, as a result of I must know if it was a duplicate and paste or homage state of affairs. Within the meantime, I’ll be seeing Miranda’s newest mission Mufasa in theaters and going again to see the great movie he made with Chu and Scott, Within the Heights.
Then, I’m gonna begin getting enthusiastic about Depraved: For Good’s launch on the 2025 film schedule, and also you higher imagine I’ll be searching for extra similarities between its choreography and the dancing in Within the Heights and the primary Depraved.