There are, however, a couple of clunky moments in the musical. The special effects in When The Sun Goes Down – characters Benny and Nina partake in a gravity-defying dance along the side of a building, a la Fred Astaire in You’re All The World To Me – are charming, but feel almost unnecessary in other parts of the film.

There’s also been some criticism surrounding the absence of speaking parts for dark-skinned Latinx people, which some members of the cast have clumsily addressed. And the one queer relationship in the film – between hair and beauty salon owner Daniela (played by Daphne Rubin-Vega) and her colleague and girlfriend Carla (played by Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Stephanie Beatriz – isn’t very apparent, save for one blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment in the film.

Though dark-skinned Afro-Latinx families and Carla and Daniela are among some of the first people we see in the film, it would have been nice to see more ambitious decisions in terms of addressing colourism and queer representation.

In an interview for The Root with Afro-Cuban video journalist Felice León, director Chu and members of the cast were asked about colourism and relegating dark-skinned Afro-Latinx people to mostly dancing roles. It’s an issue that critics – namely those in the US who know or lived in the Washington Heights area – say risks being ignored altogether, given the on-the-surface diversity offered by In The Heights’ large musical numbers.

Lin-Manuel Miranda's In The Heights is a wonderful, at times emotional reminder that home is where the heart is