IN THE HEIGHTS Performer Salgado Choreographs 'Salsa Gorda'

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Luis Salgado who currently plays "Jose" in the Tony Award winning musical In The Heights is not only beginning rehearsals as a coach and Latin Assistant choreographer for the first National Tour of In The Heights, which is scheduled to go out on the road in October, but is also working as the choreographer for Salsa Gorda the play.

The multifaceted artist has been in rehearsals for the past week and a half for this new production of Nueva Escena's, lead by actor producer Modesto Lacén last seen in Celia the Musical.

"Nueva Escena's mission is to contribute towards the preservation and progress of our culture while providing work opportunities to established and emerging talent. Nueva Escena works to create and produce profound and provocative theater that presents modern and universal themes from the perspective of Hispanics/Latinos in a global society," explains Lacén.

Nueva Escena arrives in New York from Puerto Rico with a respectable roster of professional credits: The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Yepeto (Roberto Cossa ), Art (Yasmina Reza), The Coyotes (Jorge González), and Salsa Gorda (José Luis Rámos Escobar).

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