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Vanessa Hudgens [3] got a brand-new tattoo that's a shout out to one of her upcoming film roles. The High School Musical [4] alum has been named one of the stars [5] of the upcoming Lin-Manuel Miranda-directed film adaptation of the 1990 play, Tick, Tick... BOOM! [6], and to commemorate her experience working on the film, she got a brand-new tattoo over the weekend that reads "Cages or Wings." The phrase is a lyric from the song "Louder Than Words," which was featured in the play.
"FOR JL," she captioned the photo. Her caption refers to Jonathan Larson, the man who wrote the musical to be a retelling of his own personal story as an upcoming composer in New York City in the '90s. Larson also wrote Rent, the live version of which Hudgens also starred in back in 2019, but he died the night before the show's first off-Broadway performance. Tick, Tick... BOOM! doesn't have an official release date, but it's likely that it'll premiere in 2021. Check out Hudgens's tattoo tributing the project above.