Benny's Dispatch

Benny's Dispatch is the third song on the soundtrack.

Extras

 * Lin changed the line from "Manny Ramirez is in town this weekend" to "Big Papi is in town this weekend".
 * My iPod shuffle has a funny sense of humor. In cab, Pulled up an OLD demo of Benny's Dispatch, back when he drove her home from the airport.
 * I am looking for all these discarded Benny's Dispatch lyrics I wanted to show y'all on Monday . . . now where did I put them...

Filming
The song: Benny's Dispatch. @lesliegrace singing "Hellooooooooooooooo, Good Moooooooooorning" LIVE.
 * 1) InTheHeightsMovie on set cry of the day? Jon Murray Chu.

Original Lyrics
[BENNY] Check one two three...

Check one two three...

This is Benny on the dispatch. Yo!

Atención, yo, attention!

It’s Benny, and I’d like to mention

I’m on the microphone this mornin’

Honk ya horn if you want it!

Okay, we got traffic on the west side

Get off at 79th, and take the left side

Of Riverside Drive, and ya might slide

West End’s ya best friend if you catch the lights

And don’t take the Deegan;

Manny Ramirez is in town this weekend

Sorry Dominicans, take Route Eighty-seven

You ain’t getting back in again

Hold up a minute

[NINA] Benny, hey—

[BENNY] Nina, you’re home today!

[NINA] Any sign—

[BENNY] ...Of your folks, they’re on their way!

[NINA] Anyway—

[BENNY] It’s good to see your face—

[NINA] Anytime—

[BENNY] Hold up a minute, wait! You used to run this dispatch, right?

[NINA] Once or twice—

[BENNY AND (NINA)] Well check check the technique! Yo!

There’s a traffic accident I have to mention

At the intersection of 10th Ave and the Jacob Javitz Convention Center

And check it, don’t get stuck in the rubber-neckin’

On a Hundred-Ninety-Second, there’s a double-decker bus wreck!

Now listen up, we got a special guest!

Live and direct from a year out west! (Benny...)

Welcome her back, 'cause she looks mad stressed! (Benny...)

Nina Rosario, the barrio’s best!

Honk your horns…

She’s smiling… say hello!

[NINA] Hello! Good morning!

I better find my folks

Thanks for the welcome wagon

[BENNY] Anytime. Anytime, Nina

Wait here with me

It’s getting hot outside, turn up the A.C.

Stay here with me