![]() ![]() Lin Manuel-Miranda, creator of Hamilton, saw Rent at seventeen, one year after its release on Broadway. Little did he know that a superbly popular member of his species would be telling his story roughly thirty years later. Larson introduces himself in the adaptation as “a musical theater writer, one of the last of my species,”. The adaptation of Larson’s second musical follows the story of the nearly thirty-year-old writer and tells unknown details of his childhood and close friendships. This monologue gave birth to Tick, Tick…Boom! One thing led to another, and Rent was born in 1996, just after Larson passed. The flop of the startup musical led to a monologue, an “intense, angry solo,” Anthony Tommasini, a music critic, said in a 1996 New York Times interview. Superbia was based on George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”-although he was denied the rights. Larson loved to base many of his musicals off of others, or based on his own life. And finally, Miranda created another masterpiece: a movie adaptation of Larson’s life, in the form of Tick, Tick…Boom! Then came “Rent,” his musical about friendships and about writing musicals (how familiar). In addition to Rent, Larson left behind another, lesser-known musical: Tick, Tick… Boom!, an angst-filled, semi-autobiographical story of being a playwright in New York.īefore I knew anything about Larson, it was awfully hard to distinguish his never-produced musical, Superbia, from Tick, Tick…Boom!, which is Larson’s story of writing Superbia. Larson passed away at 35 from a sudden aortic aneurysm the night before the musical’s opening. ![]() Larson left behind what I think of as one of the best musicals of all time: Rent, the iconic rock musical focusing on New York City during the height of the HIV epidemic. Most of his time was spent just getting by as a writer who could barely afford New York life. Larson wasn’t well known for most of his lifetime. ![]() Lin-Manuel Miranda’s directing debut Tick, Tick… Boom! tells the story of the theatrical composer who inspired his own creativity: Jonathan Larson, creator of the hit musical, Rent. ![]()
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