POMFRET — The Theatre department  at Pomfret School will be presenting its winter musical, “In the Heights,” at 8 p.m. Feb. 22 and at 2 p.m. Feb. 23  in Hard Auditorium.  The Saturday performance will be preceded by the School’s sixth annual Empty Bowls Supper at 5 p.m. in the Dining Hall and the “Broadway Nights” cabaret at 7 p.m. in the Jahn Reading Room. The Empty Bowls supper, a fund-raiser for local food banks, consists of a simple meal, prepared by volunteers and served in hand-made “keeper” bowls.

The play and the cabaret are free and open to the public. Empty Bowls is $10 for adults and $6 for children under 12. For information call Pomfret Theatre Director Chip Lamb at 860-963-5260. For information  about Empty Bowls call Pomfret Ceramics and Sculpture teacher Kathi Yokum at 963-5687.

“In the Heights" tells the story, set over three days, of a Dominican-American neighborhood in New York City’s Washington Heights involving the owners of a struggling  taxi company.

 

y, their daughter, a student at Stanford University; a $96,000 lottery ticket, graffiti artists, dance clubs; loves, hopes and dreams. Written by Miranda in 1999 while a student at Wesleyan University, the play evolved its way towards a Broadway opening in March of 2008. Among other awards that year “In the Heights” took home Tonys for Best Musical and Original Score.

 

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