Tick, Tick... BOOM! (by and on Netflix), titled after one of its hero's musicals, is the film directorial debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the acclaimed creator of Hamilton . Perhaps appropriately, it is about musical theatre and, itself, turns into a musical; covering the few days, in early 1990, leading to star-crossed composer Jonathan Larson's 30 birthday. At that time, Larson, who went on to write Rent , was in the throes of completing his first musical, on which he had been working for eight years, before a crucial showcase in front major players in the industry. With social puritanism and the AIDS epidemic as background – with close friends getting infected, or sick; some of them dying, Larson, a straight man, struggles to write a final key song for his show, while confronting existential questions about creativity, his life choices, and his priorities. The film features numerous examples of Larson's work meshed into the narrative of those few days. Some are part o...
hi, i'm jpns from Tokyo. i arrived at your blog in Google. (keyword : the boy i love marion husband) i've just reading this book in commutation time in the subway. It had not already read entirely yet (It is slow to read very much because my mother language is not English.) but became steadily interesting. Have you read yet? Would you tell me your impression? i'm sorry for question only. (Btw, your english is very awesome. i envy you!)
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