The last time 19-year-old actress Fina Strazza, star of the new Netflix movie Fear Street: Prom Queen , was in the lobby of the Marriott Marquis lobby in Times Square, she was eight years old.

Then, she was the youngest kid to take on the lead role in Matilda the Musical on Broadway. In between shows, she and her costars treated it as their personal playground. “The kids and I would sneak up to the 14th floor and play tag, because we were just a group of kids, no one was going to stop us,” Strazza remembers, sitting in a high-backed chair in the busy lobby. For her ninth birthday, her parents booked a room for a birthday party and promised chocolate chip cookies. She got so excited she threw up backstage. No cookies after all.

Now, she’s one of the Tony-nominated stars of John Proc

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