Time’s running out for Andrew Garfield in trailer for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s adaptation of tick, tick… BOOM!
Tony-winner Andrew Garfield plays Rent creator Jonathan Larson in the autobiographical musical
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In the full trailer for Netflix’s tick, tick… BOOM!, starring Andrew Garfield, we see young playwright Jonathan Larson grasping for glory with his next musical creation. In addition to the trailer, the first song from the soundtrack, “30/90,” premieres today, performed by Garfield.
tick, tick… BOOM! follows Jon (Garfield), a young theater composer who’s waiting tables at a New York City diner in 1990 while writing what he hopes will be the next great American musical (hint, it’s Rent! and it did indeed become a hit). After eight years of composing, writing, and rewriting, Larson begins to feel the pressure from from everywhere. His girlfriend Susan dreams of an artistic life beyond New York City and his friend Michael has moved on from his creative dream to a life of financial security. All the while, the community surrounding him continues to be ravaged by the AIDS epidemic.
As the clock keeps ticking toward his make-or-break performance, Jon is at a crossroads and faces the question everyone must reckon with: What are we meant to do with the time we have?
Larson never lived to see success of his “next great American musical,” dying on the morning of Rent’s first Off Broadway preview in 1996 at the age of 35. The cause of death was an aortic aneurysm believe to be caused by undiagnosed Marfan’s Syndrome.
Larson himself first wrote and performed tick, tick… BOOM! (then titled Boho Days) in 1990 as a solo performance. After his death, playwright David Auburn helped sculpt tick, tick… BOOM! into a three-structure musical. Today’s release, “30/90,” is the lead single from the full soundtrack of music written by Jonathan Larson.
In addition to Garfield, tick, tick… BOOM! stars Alexandra Shipp (X-Men: Apocalypse), Robin de Jesús, Joshua Henry, Pose’s Mj Rodriguez, Emmy Award winner Bradley Whitford as composer Stephen Sondheim, Tariq Trotter aka Black Thought of The Roots, as well as Emmy and Tony Award winner Judith Light, and Vanessa Hudgens.
Actor, composer, and playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his directorial debut with tick, tick… BOOM! The film is written by Tony Award winner Steven Levenson, and produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, Julie Oh, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Tick, tick… BOOM! debuts in theaters on Nov. 12, and then arrives on Netflix on Nov. 19.
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Unpopular opinion: Tick Tick Boom feels like the underbaked first draft of Rent.
Jonathan Larson has to think about his whole life before he writes a musical…
I actually went to Adelphi University, which is Jonathan Larson’s alma mater. Which is ironic because I fucking hate Rent.
So do economists!
Ever scroll too far on an article, hit refresh to see new comments, then end up in an entirely different article. Couldn’t figure out for the life of me why an article about William Shatner going to space spent so much time on “Tick Tick Boom.”
Ah Kinja Roulette! Where will your comment go? What article will it be attached to? What thread will it be nested in? Will it be “pending review” forever? Who will respond, and will you be notified? Will you ever find your comment again? What a merry carousel of mystery!
There is no future, there is no past. I write this comment as my last.
There’s only us. There’s only this. Forget Kinja, or the article is yours to
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I saw a touring production of this in the mid ‘00s. The main thing I remember about it is that during “Green Green Dress” the related lyric from “If I Had $1000000″ popped into my head and it was all I could do to keep from laughing out loud.
More like tick tick who the hell cares, am I right?
tick, tick… BOOM! follows Jon (Garfield)No, no, Jon is Garfield’s owner. Common mistake.
dear mr. president. there are too many musicals. please eliminate three. i am not a crackpot.
I recall first hearing about this at least a year, possibly two years ago (pre-COVID). The synopsis for this made my head hurt. I get it: This story/musical may be truly inspiring for some people, but it just seems like making a musical for the musicals’ sake. And the title alone just…ugh. I like Miranda, he clearly has more talent in his pinkie finger than I do in my whole body, but I hope this film is where he steps out of the limelight for a bit and focuses more on his own work rather than adapting trite second tier work like this.