Live-Action Moana To Be Helmed By Hamilton & In The Heights Broadway Director
Disney's live-action Moana adaptation finds its director with Thomas Kail, who helmed the Broadway production of Hamilton and In The Heights.
Adapted for the screen from Lin Manuel Miranda's Broadway musical of the same name, In the Heights stars Anthony Ramos as Usnavi de la Vega, a bodega owner in the New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Usnavi's daily life and the lives of the other neighborhood residents are detailed through song, set against the backdrop of a sweltering New York City summer.
Disney's live-action Moana adaptation finds its director with Thomas Kail, who helmed the Broadway production of Hamilton and In The Heights.
A feature version of the Broadway musical, in which a bodega owner has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic after inheriting his grandmother's fortune.
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