Mill Mountain Theatre is thrilled to welcome Hector Flores Jr. to lead the upcoming production of the Tony award-winning show, IN THE HEIGHTS. MMT invited Flores to join the creative team and he hit the ground running last week with rehearsals for this energetic and powerful production.
MMT is committed to leading the change needed in the theatre industry with regard to the authentic representation of casting and story-telling. Mill Mountain’s production is a turning point in how the national theatrical community will look to produce works by, with and about people of color. The theatre has worked hard to bring in Latine members of the creative team, including Flores, and a cast to tell this important story of community, neighborhood, family and hope.
The theatre has been working closely with a diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) consultant with the cast and will continue to do so following the production of IN THE HEIGHTS to ensure cultural sensitivity in all productions. MMT is committed to working with marginalized communities throughout the region so everyone is able to see the importance not only of IN THE HEIGHTS but all theatre within our community.
One of many instrumental additions to the creative team is Director/Choreographer, Héctor Flores. Flores has performed in several regional productions of IN THE HEIGHTS, most notably the Multiple Helen Hayed Awarding-winning Spanish Language Production produced by Gala Hispanic Theatre in Washington DC. The rising Director/Choreographer is an executive staff member at New York Theatre Barn, an anti-racist non-profit theatre company dedicated to the incubation of culture-shifting musicals, a former Fred Astaire Ballroom dancer/instructor and is a mentee of Luis Salgado, an original Broadway cast member of IN THE HEIGHTS. He is also a mentee of prolific Afro-Latina director/choreographer Maria Torres with whom Flores will be setting another production of IN THE HEIGHTS with After the Mill Mountain production.
The new creative team includes veterans of the show, Héctor Flores Jr. as the Director and Choreographer; Mikey Sylvester as the Associate Director and Choreographer; John Daniels as the Music Director and Eric Montesa as the Production Stage Manager.
The accomplished creative team joined the other dedicated and talented MMT designers and staff members on March 24th and IN THE HEIGHTS is set to open on April 13th. We are excited by the work being done by the cast and crew and look forward to showcasing their efforts from April 13th to April 24th.
In The Heights begins performances on April 13th and runs through April 24th on the Trinkle MainStage. Tickets can be purchased online at millmountain.org or by calling the box office at 540-342-5740.
IN THE HEIGHTS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com Music and Lyrics by Book by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría. Conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Development of In The Heights was supported by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center during a residency at the Music Theater Conference of 2005. Initially developed by Black House Productions. Originally Produced on Broadway by Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller, Jill Furman Willis Sander Jacobs, Goodman/Grossman, Peter Fine, Everett/Skipper.
