- What does sueñito mean?
- Sueñito?
It means "little dream."
- That's it? No story?
- All right, all right, everybody, sit down, sit down.
- Yeah! - It's a story of a block
that was disappearing.
Un barrio called Washington Heights.
The streets were made of music.
♪ I am Usnavi, and you probably never heard my name ♪
♪ Reports of my fame are greatly exaggerated ♪
- ♪ Morning, Usnavi ♪
- ♪ Pan caliente ♪ Hey!
♪ Café con leche ♪
- 'Round these blocks, you can't walk two steps
without bumping into someone's big...
- ♪ I'm making moves, I'm making deals ♪
♪ But guess what? ♪ What?
- ♪ You still ain't got no skills ♪
[ laughter ]
I've been saving up
all my pennies in my piggy bank for this day.
- This is gonna be an emotional roller coaster.
The odds are against you.
- But there's a chance, right?
A dream isn't some sparkly diamond.
There's no shortcuts.
Sometimes it's rough. - ♪ In the Heights ♪
- ♪ Yeah, I'm a streetlight, choking on the heat ♪
♪ The world spins around while I'm frozen to my seat ♪
- ♪ In the Heights ♪ - ♪ The people that I know ♪
- They're talking about kicking out all the dreamers.
- ♪ But every day is different ♪
- Time to make some noise. - [ cheering ]
- ♪ 'Cause my parents came with nothing ♪
- We had to assert our dignity in small ways.
- ♪ In the Heights ♪
- Shh. Just listen.
- Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.
- Ignore anyone who doubts you.
- ♪ In the Heights, I hang my flag up on display ♪
- ♪ We came to work and to live and we got a lot in common ♪
- ♪ It reminds me that I came from miles away ♪
♪ D.R., P.R., we are not stopping ♪
- ♪ Every day, paciencia y fe ♪
- ♪ Until the day we go from poverty to stock options ♪
- ♪ Today's all we got, so we cannot stop ♪
♪ This is our block ♪
♪ In the Heights ♪