Jon’s best friend Michael (Robin de Jesús), a former actor who was pretty good at one point, is now an advertising executive and making big bucks on New York’s Madison Avenue and wants Jon to face head-on the next part of life. His girlfriend, Susan (Alexandra Shipp) wants to get married to him and move out of New York to pursue her dreams of being a dancer. If the play carries a similar emotional impact as the film does, I’m all in to see it.Ī compelling and fascinating story of flesh and blood people, ‘tick, tick…BOOM!’ tells the somewhat biographical tale of Jonathan Larson (Andrew Garfield), a very promising composer, on the eve of this thirtieth birthday. I’ve never seen the stage version of Larson’s three-character pop-rock musical about facing crossroads in life and holding on to one’s dream. Those life crisis moments also hit me in my 40s, 50s, and when I turned 60 too.
And what an original and clever title, this ‘tick, tick…BOOM!’ as it doesn’t just apply to our 30s as it does in this film and in ‘Rent’. As I think back to seeing the Broadway and Toronto companies of the 90s musical ‘Rent’, I’ve realized now just how much of seminal productions they were for me upon seeing the extraordinary and compassionate film version of the late Jonathan Larson’s ‘tick, tick…BOOM!’ the other night.įor some reason, I just had this epiphany where I finally got what ‘Rent’ was all about, and I must thank Lin-Manuel Miranda (in his remarkable feature film directorial debut, and I sure hope he directs more) and Steven Levenson’s smartly adapted screenplay for their strategic vision in using ‘tick, tick…BOOM!’ as a theatrically dramatic film tool of self-realization.
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