Warning: This article contains spoilers forTick, Tick… Boom!
You’d think you’d entered musical theater heaven.
“You know those posters where Amy Winehouse is eating with Elvis and Marilyn Monroe?”
Andrew Garfield in ‘Tick, Tick… Boom!'.MACALL POLAY/NETFLIX
It’s just this galaxy brain ecstasy.
The whole thinking was the biggest, most beautiful version of it possible."
Andrew Garfieldcertainly felt that was accomplished performing as Larson in the number.
André De Shields, Mj Rodriguez, Andrew Garfield, Beth Malone, and Brian Stokes Mitchell in the ‘Tick, Tick…Boom!’ diner scene.NETFLIX
“Theater is a version of church for me,” he tells EW.
“Every day was an honoring of musical theater artists and anyone with a dream.
The number was significantly complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which halted production for several months.
Chita Rivera in the ‘Sunday’ diner scene in ‘Tick, Tick…Boom!'.MAGGIE ENGELHARDT/NETFLIX
“I’m not getting Joel Grey sick,” he quips.
“That’s not going to be on my conscience.”
“Depending on the protocol, we had to know who could be there next to each other.”
“The seasoned versus younger performers is also exciting,” he says.
“It’s exciting to see Mj Rodriguez standing behind Chita Rivera.
That is generations of Latino excellence just standing at a table.”
The number has evoked a flurry of gasps of surprise at screenings and premieres.
And when it comes to those responses, Miranda had it coming.
Tick, Tick… Boom!is now onNetflix.
