Interview With The Music Team Behind "In The Heights"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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"In The Heights" originally made its debut on the stage, winning Tony Awards including Best Musical, and is now a feature-length film currently in theaters and streaming on HBO Max. Being a musical, the music plays a key integral part in the storytelling, and executive music producers and composers Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman, have been with the film for twenty years. The two of them, along with music supervisor Steve Gizicki, were kind enough to talk with us about their work on the film, including the transition to the screen, working with Lin Manuel-Miranda, what their favorite songs are, and more! So take a listen down below and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and this is our interview with the executive music producers and composers
0:22.0	Alex Lackmore, Bill Sherman, and music supervisor Steve Gizicki for In the Heights. Lights
0:31.6	Lights up on Washington Heights up at the break a day I wake up and I got this little punk I got a chase away
0:44.3	Pop the great at the crack and don't sing while I wipe down the awning.
0:48.3	Hey y'all, good morning.
0:50.3	Ice cold, pira, wightcha, china, cherry, strawberry and just today, I got my mate. Oh yeah, Mira, Guero, how's ta? Well, thanks to all of you for joining me to talk about In The Heights. Really excited to talk about the movie. Since this is going to be an audio podcast, before we kind of dive in, I would love it if each of you could introduce yourselves, your role on In The Heights and kind of explain what you did in the film.
1:13.6	Alex, why don't we start with you?
1:14.6	My name is Alex Lockamore. I'm one of the executive music producers of In The Heights the movie.
1:20.6	I'm Bill Sherman. I'm the other executive music producer of In The Heights Movie and executive music producing, since you asked, is a very umbrella-like term,
1:29.9	meaning controlling all the things music from mixing and composing and orchestrating and arranging
1:34.6	and, you know, mixed, you know, getting all of the music together and approving all of it
1:39.8	and stuff like that. Is that kind of what you were asking to sort of define it?
1:43.2	Yeah, that's great. Creatively that.
1:45.0	I mean, creatively.
1:46.0	Oh yeah.
1:47.0	When it comes from important things, that's Steve.
1:49.0	I'm the paper question.
1:51.0	This is Steve B. Zickey music supervisor of In The Heights.
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