Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom!

Jan 19, 2022

0h 28m

★ 7.8

Overview

Go deep inside the film tick, tick...BOOM! with director Lin-Manuel Miranda, actor Andrew Garfield and the rest of the film's acclaimed ensemble. The award-winning biopic tells the story of the late Tony Award®-winning legend Jonathan Larson, an artist at a crossroads desperate to tell his story.

Genres

Documentary

Music

Drama

Production Companies

5000 Broadway Productions

Imagine Entertainment

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Cast

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Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Steven Levenson

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Julie Oh

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Andrew Garfield

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Jonathan Larson

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Joshua Henry

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Robin de Jesús

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Vanessa Hudgens

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Alexandra Shipp

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Michaela Jaé Rodriguez

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Julie Larson

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Judith Stevens

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