Lin-Manuel Miranda On Creating Folklore Through Song In ‘Encanto’; Bringing Dream Project ‘tick, tick…BOOM!’ To Life – Crew Call Podcast

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It’s a big Thanksgiving week for multihyphenate Lin-Manuel Miranda: His feature directorial debut, Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick…Boom!

dropped Friday on Netflix and today the Disney animated musical, Encanto, which he wrote all the songs and has a story by credit on, hits movie theaters.All of this can only further propel the Hamilton architect toward an ultimate EGOT, Miranda already having two Emmy wins under his belt, along with three Grammys and three Tony awards.You can listen to our first Crew Call podcast of Oscar season with Miranda below: After writing the song “How Far I’ll Go” for Disney’s Moana which earned him an Oscar nom, Miranda told the studio, “If you’re doing a Latina-themed anything, I’ll sharpen pencils; I just want to