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

If you’re a fan of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Encanto, and his fantastic feature directorial debut, tick, !, you’re about to be very happy. That’s 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 hasn’t spoken to Netflix about releasing a Blu-ray 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