There are other rewrites in Tick, Tick…Boom!, but it’s primarily the work of Larson himself, with Miranda setting aside his own talents for songwriting to focus on directing for the first time. I don’t think I would ever really say that to another artist.
He was gracious about his portrayal in the movie, but he said, ‘I have one note, which is the final voicemail message to Jon-that line, ‘I think you’re going to have a very bright future,’ sounds very cliché. “I showed him drafts of the script and the final, kind of amazing thing was I finally got up the courage to send him a screener of the film. “I was in touch with Stephen Sondheim at every stage of this, cause so much of Tick, Tick…Boom! is a love letter to Sondheim, the way this movie is my love letter to Jonathan Larson-with links in a chain in that regard,” says director Lin-Manuel Miranda on this week’s Little Gold Men podcast.
The real Sondheim, however, has a role to play in the movie too-both behind the scenes and in a very tiny cameo. On top of all that, the original show that Larson wrote was deeply inspired by Stephen Sondheim, who appeared in the stage show as a cheekily faux-anonymous character called “St- S-” and is played in the film version by Bradley Whitford.
Tick, Tick…Boom! has a bit of pretzel logic built into its core-it’s an adaptation of a stage show by Jonathan Larson that is also a deeply affectionate tribute to Larson, a mostly true biopic about Larson, and an origin story for the Larson who would eventually burst onto the Broadway scene with Rent.
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