With Hamilton playing at Sydney's Lyric Theatre and In the Heights showing at the Sydney Opera House, members of Australia's Latinx community have come together to stage the productions.
Associate director of In the Heights Clary Riven is revelling in the moment.
"It is absolutely bonkers," Ms Riven told ABC News.
"It's so so cool to have two Lin-Manuel Miranda shows playing in Sydney at the same time.
"Both casts are so iconic, in such different ways, and both shows are so iconic in different ways."
In the Heights is Miranda's debut musical set in New York's Washington Heights, a close-knit neighbourhood in Manhattan heavily populated by a working-class Latinx community.
It's won four Tony awards including Best Musical and Best Original Score.
Ms Riven says the cast and crew, some of whom have visited or lived in the neighbourhood, worked hard to bring Washington Heights to the Sydney Opera House.
This involved dramaturgical research, but also drawing on lived experience.
"Everybody shared stories of themselves and their background and their experience," Ms Riven said.
"It was collaborative. We wanted everybody to be able to bring their own stories into their characters and into the world as well."
Here's what to look out for when you go and see the show.
The abuela
She might not be your abuela (grandmother), but she's everyone's abuela. Someone who'll help you with your homework or make sandwiches for you.
"As immigrants, we all have this desire to find home," Ms Riven explains.
"So, when we speak about abuela, we all know somebody like that. Whether it's back home, whether it's here in Australia, we want to feel a sense of home.
"And when you're not home anymore, a lot of us travel far and wide, away from our biological family, so, when we do connect with others like us, it's this really gorgeous, unspoken feeling of community.
"And everyone just becomes a tia (auntie) or hermana (sister) or an abuela.
"You just become family."
The Dominican-style hair salon
"The salon is so iconic," Ms Riven said.
"It's the same every single location.
"In this barrio (neighbourhood), it's so key to the community."
Ms Riven says it was important to make sure the characters in the musical weren't stereotypes.
She describes the three women who run the salon as matriarchs in the community.
"They grab you, they kind of break you down a little bit, and then they make you feel amazing, and then they give you the real truth," she said.
"The Dominican salon that just gives you not necessarily what you asked for, but what you need as well."
Music in the streets
Ms Riven says street parties are a real thing that happens, and music is everywhere.
"As Latin people, how do we deal with stuff? We either eat about it or we dance about it," she said.
The crates
Crates act as card tables, makeshift steps, chairs, a stage — they're everything.
"It felt like a really gorgeous way of bringing that level of reality into the piece because they seriously are everywhere in South America," Ms Riven said.
"They're just everywhere in Washington Heights."
The bodega
The bodega is the equivalent of a 7-Eleven. That's where everyone gets their Café Con Leche (coffee) in the morning.
Usnavi (Ryan Gonzalez) runs the debt-ridden bodega in In the Heights.
"Usnavi is the king of coffee," Ms Riven says.
"Usnavi just knows everybody's schedules inside and out so that he can anticipate the need."
The flags
The Venezuelan flag, Dominican, Argentinian, Brazilian, Mexican, Colombian, Peruvian, Uruguay, Chile — you'll see a lot of flags on stage.
"It's in the lyrics a few times that these characters put their flags up on display to remind them that they come from miles away," Ms Riven says.
"And that they put them up with pride."
The fashion
"Our costume designer, Keerthi [Subramanyan], she did such a sensational job with all of that," Ms Riven said.
"And there was a lot of fun collaboration to make these characters dress in the most iconic 2008, 2009 [outfits].
"Chain belts and big old hoop earrings, and nails, all of the fun layering that came in that time come to life."
The Piragua Guy
Forget the ice cream man, in Washington Heights, it's all about the Piragua guy.
"They're kind of like the local ice cream man but instead of ice cream, it's shaved ice with flavouring.
"And again, they're everywhere," Ms Riven said.
The blackout
New York City has a history of blackouts.
"They affected so many people and they were so, so scary," Ms Riven says.
"I think it really highlighted how economic hardship puts pressure on human beings.
"To feel so powerless, literally and metaphorically, they are literally powerless.
"And we hear and see some of what these characters experience in that scary blackout."
The George Washington bridge
Named after founding father George Washington, the landmark is visible in the stage production.
"It just adds a really lovely reminder, I think, of where we are," Ms Riven says.
"The majestic-ness of it, looking down on this kind of rough around the edges community is a really gorgeous image that we love playing with."
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In the Heights is showing at the Sydney Opera House until August 25.
