'In the Heights' heads list of 2008 Tony Nominees

Today, that energetic portrait of a working class neighborhood in Brooklyn, "In the Heights," on Broadway received 13 Tony nominations according to Reuters. Among the awards were best musical, best performance by a featured actor in a musical for Lin-Manuel Miranda who also wrote the musical in her second year of college at Weslyan University. The play also received best original score and best direction of a musical.

Miranda wrote the story about the largely Hispanic neighborhood of Washington Heights in Manhattan. Once he'd graduated, he and, his director Thomas Kail, remade it for a larger audience where it was first played in Connecticut. It then moved to an off Broadway theater before it finally made its debut before a Broadway crowd on March 9 of this year.

Following up closely in Tony nominations was a revival of Rodger's and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" which took 11 nominations, followed by "Sunday in the Park with George" with nine. Then following all these up with seven nominations a piece were "August: Osage County," "Passing Strange" and a revival of the musical "Gypsy" according to the Associated Press.