Alexandra Shipp Only Needed One Song to Make An Impact in ‘Tick, Tick… Boom!’

Alexandra 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. Her opening voiceover serves as a guide, a brief primer on the man at the center of the musical. In a sense, she’s the voice of memory. 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. Andrew Garfield stars as Larson, who is struggling to finish writing… Read Full Article