![]() ![]() It would do nobody any favours to pretend that Tick, Tick… Boom! is on the same level as that dazzling picture, but with its own fractious interplay between life and art, and its identical crescendo of mortality, it could reasonably be described as a kind of “All That Jazz, Jr”. In the recent series Fosse/Verdon, co-created by Levenson, Miranda made a cameo appearance as the actor Roy Scheider, who starred in All That Jazz as a thinly veiled Fosse surrogate. This Russian doll effect recalls Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz, and the film has its own in-jokey relationship with that 1979 musical. Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities. ![]() Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.On 25 January 1996, hours before the off Broadway opening of Rent, he died of an aortic dissection at the age of 35. Larson did not live to see these events transpire. Among those it inspired was Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Hamilton creator, who has repaid the debt handsomely by directing this film version of Larson’s semi-autobiographical musical Tick, Tick… Boom!, which was written before Rent and which has been adapted here by Steven Levenson. ![]() Rent, his rock retelling of La Bohème, really did alter the landscape, bringing hints of realism and diversity to the Great White Way. His boast that he is “the future of musical theatre” would sound delusional had time not proved him correct. An overhead shot shows him hanging alongside the notes on the staves like a prize-fighter caught on the ropes. And if one won’t come, he goes for a late-night swim, where he hallucinates musical notes in the deep end, the floor of the pool lined like sheet music. It is 1990, and Jon has been toiling on his science-fiction musical Superbia for eight years, long enough to cross the line from being “a writer who waits tables” to “a waiter with a hobby”. As the playwright Jonathan Larson in Tick, Tick… Boom!, Andrew Garfield wears a crown of unkempt curls that look like clefs spilling out of his skull. ![]()
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