“Tick, tick…BOOM!” does a wonderful job putting the viewer in Jonathan’s shoes, as he opens the night with “30/90,” a song about Larson’s anxiety around turning 30 years old.ĭespite this being a musical, the film adaptation isn’t just straight-up singing. As those flashbacks fade, we are placed in an auditorium, where the composer takes the stage to unfold everything that happened up until his special day. The footage then transitions to snapshots of “Rent,” Larson’s most well-known musical. The Oscar-nominated film (including one for Garfield as Best Actor) opens with grainy home video footage of 29-year old Jonathan Larson (Garfield) in his element, goofing off at the Moondance Diner where he waited and bussed tables. After seeing all the buzz it accumulated via social media (and the multiple “It’s so good!” comments from friends), I jumped on the bandwagon and watched it.ĭirected by “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, “tick, tick…BOOM!” follows a young, 29-year old Jonathan Larson, a playwright and composer preparing for two very pivotal moments in his life: his 30th birthday and placing the cherry on top of his sci-fi musical “Superbia.” Larson is played by Tony-Award-winning actor Andrew Garfield who is best known for his title role in “The Amazing Spider-Man” and its sequel in addition to playing Prior Walter in “Angels in America” to name a few.

In early November, the film adaptation of the late Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical, one-man rock musical, “tick, tick.

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