Lin Manuel Miranda on Encanto s Oscar Nominations How Stephen Sondheim Inspired His Next Thing

If youre a fan of LinManuel Miranda, Encanto, and his fantastic feature directorial debut, tick, youre about to be very happy. Thats because I recently got to speak with Miranda to talk about his Encanto Academy Award nomination for Best Song (he wrote the music and lyrics to Dos Oruguitas and seven other original songs), and the conversation covered a myriad of subjects. For fans of tick, while Miranda says he hasnt spoken to Netflix about releasing a Bluray with extras, he did talk about how much he loved the past year of movie musicals, how different each one was, and his desire to make more little musicals. He said: I d love to make more little musicals. I think we think of musicals as this binary thing. They re big splashy, Hollywood musicals, or they re not musicals like in the popular imagination. And one of the great gifts of this past year was the diversity of musicals on display. The musicals can be Annette, the musica