![]() ![]() Having taken vocal lessons for the past year in preparation for the role, Garfield showed he had more talent than the average auto-tuned Hollywood actor. Andrew Garfield hit the ball out of the park with his portrayal of Larson. Though it never played on a Broadway stage, it had a few off-Broadway runs in the 2000s as several artists tried to showcase Larson’s previous works since he was no longer with them, but this is the first time it has been brought to the big screen. Unlike “Superbia,” “Tick, Tick… Boom!” played in theaters around the Big Apple as a one-man show with Larson playing himself. So, the film essentially follows the “play within a play” plotline. “Tick, Tick… Boom!” is a semi-autobiographical musical about his experience writing “Superbia,” a project he spent eight years writing that no New York producer liked enough to bring to the stage. In his young adult life, Larson wrote a handful of pieces that never gained any traction. ![]() Even more tragically, Larson died the morning of the very first off-Broadway performance of “Rent,” meaning he never was able to see the success of his much-beloved rock musical. Larson’s tale is a brief one, as he died at the age of 35 from health complications due to an undiagnosed illness. The penultimate edition to this year’s collection is Netflix’s “Tick, Tick… Boom!” The directorial debut of theater genius Lin-Manuel Miranda tells the story of another theatrical genius, Jonathan Larson, best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning “Rent.” With strong performances and innovative music sequences, the film was a love letter to musical theater and the artists who make it possible. Whether major motion pictures like this summer’s “In the Heights” and this month’s “West Side Story” reboot, or filmed stage shots like “Hamilton” on Disney+ and “Come From Away” on Apple TV+ (I’m not even going to mention “Diana: The Musical”), here has been a ton of content. Though the bright lights of Broadway have been in the dark for more than a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, musicals have remained in the spotlight - just on the silver screens of Hollywood instead of the stages of New York City. 2021 has been the year of the movie musical.
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