Tick, Tick…BOOM! (2021)
Director: Lin-Manuel Miranda Run Time: 110 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2021
Starring: Alexandra Shipp, Andrew Garfield, Bradley Whitford, Robin de Jesús, Vanessa Hudgens
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
On the cusp of his 30th birthday, a promising young theater composer navigates love, friendship, and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City, struggling to create something truly great before time runs out.
With a screenplay by Tony Award-winning writer Steven Levenson, Tick, Tick…BOOM! is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature-length directorial debut, an adaptation of the autobiographical stage musical from Jonathan Larson, the revolutionary creator of Rent.
About the filmmaker:
A Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Emmy, Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist, and actor, Lin-Manuel Miranda is the creator and original star of Broadway’s In the Heights and the record-breaking Hamilton. He contributed music, lyrics and vocals to songs in Disney’s Moana and has appeared in numerous television shows and films, including His Dark Materials and Mary Poppins Returns. He is a recipient of the 2015 MacArthur Foundation Award and 2018 Kennedy Center Honors, and he released a book of his famously affirmational tweets called “Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You.”
No stranger to the compelling story of Tick, Tick…BOOM!, Miranda appeared in the 2014 City Center Encores! Off-Center production as Jonathan.
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