Alexandra Shipp On ‘Tick, Tick… Boom!,’ Movie Musicals, and ‘Work Wife’ Vanessa Hudgens

Alexandra Shipp has the rare Hollywood distinction of making one of the world’s biggest directors cry — and over Skype, no less. “For my final audition for Tick, Tick… Boom!, Lin [Manuel Miranda] couldn’t make it to L.A., so we got him on Skype, and Andrew [Garfield] and I in a room together, and we did our lovers’ quarrel scene. After we finished the last take of it, we both turned to Lin and he was crying. … He was like, ‘That was really great,’” Shipp recalls, chatting over Zoom. “I felt that if I can make Lin cry on… Read Full Article