There’s a lot of different iterations of t ick, tick…BOOM! ,” Brooks noted. His autobiographical musical t ick, tick…BOOM! was performed in various states throughout his lifetime, but there is no official edition. Larson eventually secured his revered place in musical theatre history with Broadway smash Rent, but his tragic and sudden death fell on the eve of the show’s premiere for audiences. It didn’t suddenly feel like we were breaking into song and dance, but rather it felt like it was coming from Jonathan Larson’s mind.” That became the place where Lin and I started creating from. “It’s that childlike memory where sometimes the lines between dreams and reality are blurred.
He wanted to hold onto his dream,” Brooks said. “Jonathan Larson had this incredible childlike quality to him where he didn’t want to grow up. The musical number “30/90” captures his anxiety over the passing of time while the creativity he harbors inside is still searching for a way into the world. Jonathan is nearing a milestone age but is growing discouraged by his art. It’s a childlike memory of a 10-year-old where color and light and emotions are all heightened,” Brooks explained. “Since Lin and I were both 10 in this era, we both have the same memories of what New York City was. Jonathan, played by Andrew Garfield, was turning 30 in 1990 while Brooks was 10, but they had a youthful perspective in common. These are actually your pictures?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, “Well it can’t get any more personal than that.’”
Five minutes into the meeting Lin said, ‘Wait a minute. “The first page of my lookbook is just my childhood photos. One page resembling a family photo album drew the connection that made it obvious she was the person for the job. She presented a lookbook with her vision for the film.
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Photo Credit: Macall Polay/NETFLIX ©2021tĪfter her electric work on In the Heights, Miranda tapped Brooks for his movie directorial debut. They were really our family.” TICK, TICK…BOOM! (L-R) Andrew Garfield, Director Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Director of Photography Alice Brooks on location in NYC on March 3, 2020. “We lived in 300 square feet, but it was always filled with all these wonderful artist friends of my father. Our apartment – we had a bathtub in the kitchen, which is exactly like Jonathan,” Brooks recalled. “I started reading the script and page by page as I turned it, I thought this could be scenes from my childhood.
She was just ten years old in January of 1990 when t ick, tick…BOOM! takes place. The project may closely realize Larson’s original vision thanks to cinematographer Alice Brooks, ASC who lends her own magical memories of late 20 th century NYC.īrooks spent her early childhood in New York City with her playwright father and dancer mother. Although Larson passed away in 1996, the project was lovingly researched and reconstructed by director Lin-Manuel Miranda and screenwriter Steven Levenson. The film interpretation of his unfinished work captures the heart and hustle of 1990s New York through Larson’s eyes. Tick, tick…Boom! may not have the name recognition of Jonathan Larson’s most famous production, Rent, but it is a theater kid’s dream for Broadway royalty to bring this story to the screen.
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