Title - tick, tick... Boom!
Production - Netflix, 5000 Broadway Productions, Imagine Entertainment
Starring - Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesus, Vanessa Hudgens, Joshua Henry, Judith Light, Bradley Whitford, Michaela Jae Rodriguez
Writer - Steven Levenson
Director - Lin-Manuel Miranda
Release - 19 November 2021
This was a beautiful adaptation of Jonathan Larson's work that covered his first two musicals, ending just before he began working on Rent.
I am hoping for an Oscar nomination here for Andrew Garfield, perhaps even Lin-Manuel Miranda. Garfield was enigmatic and captivating. His performance here has to be one of his career highlights. He was able to convey his emotions and made me relate. The attention to detail, just a shake of his voice as he stood in front of his audience was so relatable.
Miranda directed the hell out of this movie. The pacing for the most part was just right, though I would have cut 10 minutes off the running time just to make the whole thing feel tighter.
But that shift between Andrew performing "tick, tick...Boom!" and then to present time, transitioned so well that the pacing in the storytelling kept on moving and switching gear, and capturing the audience attention.
The musical numbers were presented expertly, and performed beautifully - surprisingly and impressively - by Garfield.
By the end of it, if you know about Rent and how he died, you would be left with a tinge of sadness and a longing, but also a sense of happiness at how well his story was told.
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