Tick Tick Boom

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🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The Netflix movie tick, tick...BOOM! is the story of composer Jonathan Larson and the musical he wrote a few years before he wrote Rent. The film marks the directorial debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda, and stars Andrew Garfield as Jonathan. It's set in 1990 and takes place over a few days leading up to Jonathan's 30th birthday.

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0:00.0	A note, we recorded this episode last week before a composer Stephen Sondheim died on Friday.
0:06.2	You can hear more about him in the episode we made in his memory and read lots of remembrances
0:11.0	at npr.org.
0:17.6	The film Tick Tick Boom is a musical, an adaptation of a musical and a story about a musical.
0:24.4	Specifically, it's the story of a show the composer Jonathan Larson wrote a few years
0:28.9	before he wrote Brent.
0:30.8	Directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tick Tick Boom is a story about creativity and passion
0:36.2	and about the commitment it takes to finish a project that might never see the light of
0:40.2	day.
0:41.2	I'm Aisha Harris.
0:42.2	And I'm Linda Holmes and today we're talking about Tick Tick Boom on Pub Culture Happy
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