Most of the first act focuses on Jon’s preparation for a workshop staging of Superbia and his sense of time slipping away as his friends begin to move on from the theater world. The filmmakers use a staged performance of Tick, Tick … Boom!, with Jon leading a small electric band in a selection of songs, to frame the central narrative, consisting of dramatic scenes as well as more elaborate production numbers featuring Jon’s girlfriend, Susan (Alexandra Shipp), his gay roommate and childhood friend Michael (Robin De Jesús), and the supporting cast.Īlthough it’s initially a rather unwieldy structure, once the film hits its stride the alternating onstage and on-set scenes provide a palpable sense of variation and energetic pacing.
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This familiar setup introduces the production’s first song, “30/90,” which finds Jon stressing out over his upcoming 30th birthday and lamenting his lack of creative and professional achievement. In his frequently self-referential style, Larson created the character of Jon (Andrew Garfield) as the protagonist of Tick, Tick … Boom! A struggling playwright who waits tables at the diner, he’s trying to complete Superbia, the futuristic dystopian musical he’s been working on for the past eight years (which was also Larson’s first original musical theater piece). When Larson was writing and developing Tick, Tick … Boom!, he was just another broke New York theater composer, working a day job at the downtown Moondance Diner, a key setting in Miranda and Dear Evan Hansen screenwriter Steven Levenson’s dynamic reimagining of Larson’s work.
It’s not an entirely convincing tactic, although hard-core musical theater fans are likely to find it fairly irresistible.
Despite the resonance of Larson’s source material, particularly evident throughout Rent, Miranda’s approach to Tick, Tick … Boom! lacks a similar sense of immediacy, as if he’s regarding the musical through a haze of nostalgia, seeking to persuade viewers to fall under the creative spell that clearly still lingers for him. Cast: Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Vanessa Hudgens, Robin de Jesús, Joshua Henry, Bradley Whitford, Tariq Trotter, Judith Light, Michaela Jaé (Mj) RodriguezĪfter the overwhelming success of Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winner Hamilton and his collaborations on animated family movies, Miranda emerged as something of an heir apparent to Larson, with a similar ability to capture the specific tenor of the national mood and distill it into an individual song or an entire creative work.
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