PREVIEW: Tick, Tick… Boom! (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge), Alexandra Shipp (Love, Simon), Robin de Jesús (The Boys in the Band), Joshua Henry (Renegades), Judith Light (Save Me), Vanessa Hudgens (The Princess Switch), Bradley Whitford (Get Out), Joanna P. Adler (Shut Up and Sing), Noah Robbins (Miss Sloane), Ben Levi Ross (film debut), Beth Malone (Hick), Joel Grey (Cabaret), Richard King (A Serious Man), Mj Rodriguez (Saturday Church), Kate Rockwell (Sex and the City)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Lin-Manuel Miranda (Clayton’s Friends), director, producer; Steven Levenson (Dear Evan Hansen), writer; Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind), Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon) and Julie Oh (Hillbilly Elegy), producers; Jonathan Larson (film debut), composer; Alice Brooks (In the Heights), cinematographer; Myron Kerstein (Crazy Rich Asians) and Andrew Weisblum (Black Swan), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In the early 1990s, aspiring young New York theatre composer Jon (Garfield) is no closer to his dream of writing the next great American musical. Feeling pressure from all sides as he prepares to showcase his work in a make-or-break event, Jon begins to assess his standing in an artistic society ravaged by the AIDS epidemic…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Lin-Manuel Miranda directs this rousing and emotional musical tale inspired by the life of Jonathan Larson, the tragic creator of the hugely successful stage musical Rent.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 19TH NOVEMBER 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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