Piragua- In The Heights (Original Broadway Cast)

[trumpetdiva007]

A Piragua is a snow cone - shaved ice with flavored syrup poured over it

[rasputinsghost]

Piragua is specifically Puerto Rican

[TheAndresfardila]

at least in my countrie COLOMBIA 'piragua' means canoe and i really can't understand why they use piragua in this song ..... ?

try to listed to the song 'La piragua' by Carlos Vives or some other singer from my countrie

[inuvane]

piragua is shaven ice with some flavoring syrup

[harristhegreat1]

Piragua FTW!

[harristhegreat1]

Love this song

[TerribleGreenBlizzrd]

I think this song is gonna be cut from the movie...

[sbarini]

@TerribleGreenBlizzrd They better not cut it! That's why I'm nervous about the movie, they always cut stuff and change the story.... :(

[arkady714]

@sbarini I'm from The Heights and can attest that the musical was pretty accurate...and absolutely brilliant. I really hope that the film keeps to the spirit of the play and my neighborhood. The Heights is the most unique place in all of the five boroughs.

[kierapoo]

I love this song..it makes me think of home...South Bronx..NYC..stand up!!!

[RpattzMyPapiChulo]

Piragua MEANS= IT IS A Slushy, which is a cup of ice shaving with juices, fruit juices.

[l00gna]

Piragua is a form of shaved ice, but unlike American Snowcones, piragua is not shaved ice from a machine. It is scraped off a block of ice with a special tool (many references to the ice and scraping)

[ThePProm]

My favourite song in the play! I work at a snow cone stand and I'm opening my own next year. I bought one of the snow cone t-shirts and I'm going to start singing this song to my Latino customers!!

[ktgirl511]

I can't find the reprise of this on YouTube. Anybody sending me a link would be appreciated, because it's one of my favorites. :)

[Missperformer94]

@ktgirl511

look in the realaterd videos when you listen to this one... its there :)

[ktgirl511]

Thanks! :)

[sk8rtuti]

I LOVE Piraguas!

[Arkady63]

An inside joke will now be explained:

"Mr. Softee's trying to shut me down..." refers to the UNENDING presence of a Mr. Softee ice cream truck on every street corner.

Heck, you start from the Geo Washington Bridge and head south on Broadway and there seems to be one stationed on every street corner straight down to 137th!

Btw, guess where I from...

[eaglefeathyr]

@Arkady63 you're right. I was in New York for a week (during which time I saw "In the Heights"... it's such a fantastic musical!) and I don't even know how many Mr. Softee ice cream trucks and pretzel vendors I saw. xD

[MSISOAD]

Yeah guys, it's like a shaved ice or a snow-cone. My mom grew up there and we visit every year so I would know. I crack up every time at the Mister Softee reference.

[Arkady63]

You've got to be from The Heights to get that joke.

When I finally saw this musical and he says "Mr. Softee's trying to shut me down," I bust out laughing...and I was the only one...

[MSISOAD]

LOL

[Arkady63]

Hey, the street food up here rules! One of those pastis (meat pies), re-fried with the chili sauce? A Tamale? A sliced mango with lemon juice?

And, of course a piragua de limon!

Fine dining at its highest level...

[yoohallooonbroadway]

actually, lin-manuel miranda said that he wrote this song because he had no idea what he was going to do for vanessa's song and he was procrastinating and so he just started writing down words and the lyrics just came to him, and the song was too good not to put in the show.

[augustanarox]

lol it is a bit random, no clue wut it means, but we saw this musical and im pretty sure that they just use this as a costume changing song. did you notice that one song they'll have on and outfit, then this song will come on, and the next song they would have a different outfit on? thats what i think, but i don't know.

[IzzyPeralta]

Its just a typical washington heights thing, i live there and its a drink with shaven ice, with a fruit juice. Its like a icie

[MrHambalu]

@IzzyPeralta Its Typical of Puerto Rico

[IzzyPeralta]

@MrHambalu Yes. Obviously.

[jblive1985]

its an icey

[IzzyPeralta]

more latin-ish

[Selendomono]

who plays the piragua guy here?

[QF107]

The great Eliseo Roman

[skydancinghobbit]

lol so random but awesome

[liz0mobile]

Um....it means snow cone...

[Broadway611]

piragua means canoe....? XD

[GuilleCarvajal]

No, it's like an ice cream...

[Broadway611]

I know it's an ice cream sort of thing but apparently in spanish the word piragua means canoe. XD

[GuilleCarvajal]

Woo! haha well i'm from venezuela and we do not use that word a lot...in fact i've heard this word in a cuban song!...but i don't really know it's meaning...

[Broadway611]

Ah, cool. :3

[grievous056]

@GuilleCarvajal

It's a Puerto Rican food. Basically its like a snow cone. A chunk of crushed ice with flavoring.

[gabrielimaf]

@GuilleCarvajal

jajaja piragua es una vaso con hielo molido con sabores de frutas y demás- En EEUU siempre los ves con eso. Si mirás la serie glee, es lo que le tiran a los gleeks en la cara :) saludos desd Argentina!

[comedykid0909]

@GuilleCarvajal its the shaved ice with the juice/syrup poured into it

[chijiro97]

@GuilleCarvajal Significa raspado :)



[Doliath]

It means both canoe and a sno-cone that is vaguely canoe-shaped.

[yellowmonkey653]

@Broadway611 It's not a canoe, lmfao XD. It's a snow cone.. well to puerto ricans xD.

[00NikkiV00]

@Broadway611 A piragua is a Latino thing..duh.. :p It's usually in the shape of a pyramid (pira-) and is frozen water treat (-agua) like a snow cone. :) good times..

[CantoUcello]

@Broadway611 Piragua is a name of a character, hahaha

[WinterHalloweenRose]

@Broadway611 more like a snow cone

[yellowmonkey653]

@Broadway611 It's a snow cone :D.

[boriqua300]

@Broadway611

piragua is like a snowcone (: that word is used in Puerto Rico

[rhapsody710]

@Broadway611 ... from what I've heard, it's basically the Puerto Rican version of a sno-cone. Shaved/crushed ice with flavored syrup on top.

[ycrocker721]

@Broadway611 it means something like a fruit frappee

[NYChica23]

@Broadway611 Nope...it means ice cream ♥♥

[sweetmelodies90]

this piragua guy is amazing! i love hiss voice!

[aasjb4ever]

i saw the show yesterday and this was like the funniest part

the piragua guys awesomeee

[hfs943]

love this song

[guitarfreak429]

id really kill just to play this part not even joking...i love the piragua guy

[clayandhayley]

could you please post the Piragua Reprise also??

[GuilleCarvajal]

Ok!