So it really, in hindsight, it’s like this crazy midpoint, in my career where I’m, I’m between the, the past and the present.Īnd that does mirror the way that Jonathan is in-between: giving up on Superbia, which he’s been working on for eight years, and then he finally realizes it’s not gonna go anywhere and then starts working on Rent. And I was performing the show with two collaborators from my past and my future: Karen Olivo, who was my colead in In The Heights, and Leslie Odom Jr., who was my future colead in Hamilton. My wife was super pregnant with our first child, who would be born two weeks before rehearsals started for Hamilton. And at that moment, it was a few months before we’d start rehearsals on Hamilton. It’s about a musical songwriter at a crossroads. And it really is in hindsight was a crossroads in my career. Yeah, I performed in Tick, Tick…Boom! in 2014. Because as soon as she saw it, she showed it to me and I saw it.Īnd was this after you had performed in Tick, Tick…Boom! itself onstage?
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I’ll always be grateful for her to foreseeing that. I’ve never directed a movie, but if I know anything, it’s, it’s what it feels like to try to get a show on in your 20s, what it feels like to have the weight of your own expectations and a show in your head and the gulf between the musical only you can hear and the things that need to go right for anyone else to hear it. I said, I’m the only person who can direct this movie. One, I realized Jonathan performing this as a rock monologue with a rock band could be the frame that that told the whole story.Īnd two, I replied faster than I’ve ever replied to an email in my life. I met her as a young executive then, and she came to me in 2016 and said, “I have the film rights to Tick, Tick…Boom! And I have the blessing of Julie Larson and the Larson estate.” And as soon as I got that email, two things happened at the same time. Julie Oh was someone I had met briefly, in the time when Heights was being shopped around from studio to studio. And, and you know, who really deserves the credit, for seeing that is, is Julie Oh. There are other rewrites in Tick, Tick…Boom!, but it’s primarily the work of Larson himself, with Miranda setting aside his own talents for songwriting to focus on directing for the first time. I don’t think I would ever really say that to another artist. He was gracious about his portrayal in the movie, but he said, ‘I have one note, which is the final voicemail message to Jon-that line, ‘I think you’re going to have a very bright future,’ sounds very cliché.
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“I showed him drafts of the script and the final, kind of amazing thing was I finally got up the courage to send him a screener of the film.
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“I was in touch with Stephen Sondheim at every stage of this, cause so much of Tick, Tick…Boom! is a love letter to Sondheim, the way this movie is my love letter to Jonathan Larson-with links in a chain in that regard,” says director Lin-Manuel Miranda on this week’s Little Gold Men podcast.
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The real Sondheim, however, has a role to play in the movie too-both behind the scenes and in a very tiny cameo. On top of all that, the original show that Larson wrote was deeply inspired by Stephen Sondheim, who appeared in the stage show as a cheekily faux-anonymous character called “St- S-” and is played in the film version by Bradley Whitford. Tick, Tick…Boom! has a bit of pretzel logic built into its core-it’s an adaptation of a stage show by Jonathan Larson that is also a deeply affectionate tribute to Larson, a mostly true biopic about Larson, and an origin story for the Larson who would eventually burst onto the Broadway scene with Rent.