In the Heights Wins Big at 51st Annual Grammy Awards

In the Heights added yet another accolade to its long list of prizes. The Tony Award-winning Best Musical nabbed the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Albumon on February 8, beating out fellow nominees The Little Mermaid, Young Frankenstein, Gypsy and South Pacific at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. The ceremony was broadcast live from Los Angeles’ Staples Center.

The win honored In the Heights’ original cast, featured on the recording, as well as producers Kurt Deutsch, Alex Lacamoire, Andres Levin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Joel Moss and Bill Sherman, composer/lyricist Miranda and Razor & Tie Entertainment in partnership with Ghostlight Records.

Broadway itself was also represented elsewhere in the winners’ circle: Weill: Rise and Fall of The City of Mahagonny, featuring Tony Award winners Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald, collected two awards, for Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording; Tony Award winner Cynthia Nixon as well as fellow actors Beau Bridges and Blair Underwood scored the Best Spoken Word Album honor for An Inconvenient Truth; and Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson, of big-screen Dreamgirls fame, took home Best R&B Album for her self-titled solo debut.