Some of my most formative memories of musicals were on VHS, you know? Watching Grease, watching West Side Story. I get to watch it over and over and over again. Duh! But to see it means that I get to rewind it-or used to be able to rewind it. I know it’s controversial, you know? A lot of people are like, You gotta see it onstage! And I’m like, Yes, of course. What kind of relationship did you have to musical theater? I was just like, Alex, you have got to absorb more! It really deepened and broadened for me. I listened to the soundtrack over and over and over again. I had never seen Tick, Tick… Boom! onstage, so when I first got the audition, I dove into as many YouTube videos as I could find. My particular relationship to Tick, Tick… Boom! was knowing Jonathan Larson through Rent. How familiar were you with Tick, Tick… Boom! before you were cast in the film?
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Shipp plays his long-suffering girlfriend Susan, a dancer who is beginning to imagine a life beyond the day-to-day struggles of surviving as an artist in early ’90s New York City.Īs the film opens in select theaters-with a debut on Netflix coming on November 19-GRAZIA chatted with Shipp about movie musicals, the real-life inspiration behind her character and working with powerhouse performers like Garfield and Miranda. Andrew Garfield stars as Larson, who is struggling to finish writing his first musical before his impending 30th birthday. Based on Rent creator Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical stage show, Tick, Tick… Boom! is an unusual hybrid of biopic and musical, deftly helmed by Lin-Manuel Miranda in his feature directorial debut. Her opening voiceover serves as a guide, a brief primer on the man at the center of the musical. Alexandra Shipp (Photo: Thomas Concordia/Getty Images for Supper Suite)Īlexandra Shipp’s is the first and last voice we hear in Tick, Tick… Boom!, a film that is full of soaring, joyful, impassioned voices-though, funnily enough, she isn’t singing in either instance.
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