Tick, Tick... Boom!

And even though now we have things like the movie version of Tick, Tick, Boom and sort of other works by him have sort of been – at least somewhat surfaced and people understand it is still Jonathan Larson's big show is Rent and Rent sort of weirdly accidentally tells Jonathan Larson a story even though it wasn't actually intended to do that right he was more telling the story of his friends but he ended up sort of just by tragedy of fate sort of being depicted in the show himself it's

interesting too because like Tick Tick Boom was actually his story

yes

and

Like, and we all get told that we're being silly at the time and it feels impossible because you're in it.

And, you know, it's, I do think that that, like that collaboration between the, age of the MTV generation and the high drama and, and, operatic or uh origins of rent it's just like it's a match made in heaven it's perfect

it really really is yeah it really really is um so yeah we'll talk about rent again someday i'm sure maybe even tick tick boom someday let's not wait

another six years to talk about rent yeah geez long

Okay, because I don't know a lot about Jonathan Larson.

I know that he wrote several other shows and that the only thing I really know for sure is that he was the main subject of Tick Tick Boom that Andrew Garfield was in a number of years ago and that I still haven't seen, but apparently it's quite good.

Well, he wrote Tick Tick

Boom.

Yeah, but I think he also is the main character in Tick Tick Boom.

Am I wrong about that?

I don't know that to be certain.

He's 43, famous for The Amazing Spider-Man.

Tick and tick, boom.

I guess that's a movie.

Tick, tick, boom.

I mean, I thought it was one tick.

Tick,

tick, boom.

Wow.

Yes.

In the 2021 biographical film Tick, Tick, Boom, Andrew Garfield plays the American composer Jonathan Larson, who died in 1996 on the eve of the first off-Broadway preview of which rock musical that he'd written?

We will rock

you.

In Bohemian Rhapsody, the Freddie Mercury biopic, Queen writes another one bites the dust in the middle of a fight between bandmates, and the scene immediately transitions into the band playing the song flawlessly, exactly as it's been ingrained into all of our minds.

This does not happen in Tick Tick Boom.

John Larson keeps dutiful notes of the things that stick out to him in his life.

He lays in bed with his keyboard.

And it's this.

it sort of pushes against i think a lot of like modern music biopics where the music comes easy to everyone all the time and that they're sitting down like queen is sitting down and writing a fully formed version of any one of their songs like the second that they all like sat down like time to write a song and it's like that's not how it goes and there's a push and pull to it that i think is um important to note is if you are someone who makes stuff like that

i have a question about tick tick boom real quick yeah why didn't larson just use claude He should have.

He really should have.

Yeah, I would say write what you know.

That's a quote from Tick Tick Boom, a good musical.

I'm forgetting who says that in the movie, like his real-life name.

Anyways, write what you know.

He has proved his theatrical chops.

He has also proved his musical theater abilities with a performance that the community very much celebrated as Jonathan Larson in the film adaptation of Tick Tick Boom, since which time there has been a lot of enthusiasm for him to get back into another musical theater role.

And this would kind of be perfect.

He already has the hair.