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Maine East Premieres Show, Scales 'Heights'
Maine East is one of the first high schools in the country to stage the Tony-Award winning Broadway musical 'In the Heights." It's got awesome hip-hop and Latin dancing, and the storyline, about immigrant families adapting, mirrors the student body.
Actors, dancers and set builders are buzzing with excitement at Maine East High School as they prepare to open the musical In the Heights Friday. It's the first high school in Illinois to produce this Tony Award-winning Broadway show, and only the fifth high school in the country to do so. The school's theater department is also excited about the fact that the play, telling the tale of immigrants' children trying to make it in America, is also the personal story of so many of the school's students, who came here from dozens of other countries. Patch.com asked Ed Eubank and Karen Hall of Maine East to fill us in. You can see the show March 1, 2, 8 or 9 at 7:30 p.m. at Maine East. Details below. Patch: How is it that Maine East became …
