‘Why’ is a lovely ode to friendship built on a passion for music. ‘Boho Days’, an ode to living in New York’s arty sector driven by rhythmic clapping, sounds irritating as hell but is actually very winning.
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The film finds moving emotional notes without being mawkish.Īs you’d expect from its creators, Tick, Tick… Boom! courses with a love of musical theatre, from nods and winks to Broadway history to a terrific, uncanny cameo from Bradley Whitford as Sondheim. Jon still hasn’t been able to write a killer song for the second act. His newest work Superbia, a dystopian rock musical about a poisoned planet (Greta Thunberg would stan), is heading into a rehearsal workshop before an industry showcase.
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Chief among them is that it is 1990 and he is about to turn 30 - the title refers to the ticking clock - and he is yet to experience the theatrical breakthrough of his idol Stephen Sondheim. Based on the Jonathan Larson musical about his own early song-writing struggles (he hit the big time with Rent), Hamilton maestro Lin-Manuel Miranda’s directorial debut is chock-full of things to set the show tunes haters’ teeth on edge (impromptu a cappella singing, for starters), but gets by on a deep well of love for musicals, some good songs and a more successful turn to the dark side in its final act.Īdapted by Dear Evan Hansen scribe Steven Levenson, Tick, Tick… Boom! flits between Larson ( Andrew Garfield) on stage at a piano, relating his life accompanied by a small band with two singers ( Vanessa Hudgens, Joshua Henry), and real-world sections dramatising his problems. If you are one of those people for whom musical theatre brings you out in hives, Tick, Tick… Boom! won’t win you over.