Tag: Rent
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10 Best Rosario Dawson Movies, According to IMDb
Since making her debut as a teenager in Harmony Korine’s Kids, Rosario Dawson has had a long career playing a number of very different characters across genres and working with plenty of renowned actors and directors. She’s part of a few franchises, including the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Claire Temple, and has also starred in…
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Andrew Garfield Is Ok With ‘Spider-Man’ Oscar Snub: A “Gajillion People” Saw It, It’s Success Is “Plenty”
Andrew Garfield received a second Oscar nomination for his luminous performance in the Netflix film “Tick, Tick… Boom!” directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Garfield brings a warm earnestness and passionate vocal skills to the role of writer and composer Jonathan Larson. The film is an adaptation of Larson’s autobiographical one-man musical about the horrors of turning…
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‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’ Star Andrew Garfield on His ‘Spiritual’ Devotion to Jonathan Larson’s Legacy
Andrew Garfield describes winding up as the star of the film “Tick, Tick … Boom!” as a “very strange, magical cosmic experience.” Not only working with director Lin-Manuel Miranda, whom he had “a big kind of artistic crush on,” but developing an emotional kinship with the person he portrays, the late playwright Jonathan Larson.Lin-Manuel Miranda’s…
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‘Tick Tick Boom’: Crafting the ‘Sunday’ Diner Scene as a Sondheim Tribute with Broadway Legends
The sublime “Sunday” diner scene with the Broadway legends in Netflix’s “Tick Tick Boom” has become even more tear-inducing and meta with the recent passing of Stephen Sondheim, whose “Sunday in the Park with George” musical about French pointillist painter Georges Seurat started it all. First, through Jonathan Larson’s (Andrew Garfield) tribute song, “Sunday,” set…
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Lin-Manuel Miranda: ‘Doing Hamilton every night saved me. It kept my head from getting off the swivel’
When his Broadway show became a global phenomenon, the rigours of daily performance kept the actor and songwriter grounded. Then Disney and Hollywood came calling. Now, the ‘musical theatre fanboy’ has returned to his first loveAbout halfway through Tick, Tick … Boom!, the new movie directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the patrons of a diner in…
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How Lin-Manuel Miranda Channeled Disney Legend Howard Ashman for the ‘Encanto’ Animated Musical
With Disney’s “Encanto”, Lin-Manuel Miranda finally got to work on his first animated musical from the ground up after getting a taste with Disney’s “Moana” (featuring his Oscar-nominated song “How Far I’ll Go”) and Sony/Netflix’s “Vivo.” In fact, it’s the latest milestone in what has been an incredible year for the very hot Miranda, following…
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Andrew Garfield and Will Smith Brought Best Actor Race Into Focus at AFI Fest
So have we seen everything yet?AFI Fest, which just wrapped in Los Angeles, is the final prominent film festival to unveil a handful of awards hopefuls.Lin-Manuel Miranda’s directorial debut, “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” from Netflix, premiered to strong reviews and plenty of Oscar buzz. As part of a banner year for Miranda that includes involvement…
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Tick, Tick…Boom! Early Buzz Has Overwhelming Love For Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Jonathan Larson Tribute
When “Tick, Tick…Boom!” was announced, everyone and their mother had an opinion about Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tribute to “Rent” creator Jonathan Larson. I didn’t; I am an outside observer who was friends with the theater kids but wasn’t one herself. If you heard me sing or watched me dance, you’d know I’m better off in the…
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‘Tick Tick Boom’ Review: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Directorial Debut Has the Highs and Lows of a Passion Project
It’s been over 30 years since Jonathan Larson’s first performance of “Tick Tick Boom” a work he categorized as a rock monologue. Just a few years before his tragic and wholly unexpected passing (on the eve of the premiere of his seismic musical “Rent”), he channeled his anxieties into a show about struggling to write…
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tick, tick … Boom! review – Lin-Manuel Miranda’s heartfelt tribute to Broadway
Andrew Garfield plays Rent composer Jonathan Larson in Miranda’s sugar rush of showbiz highs and lowsLin-Manuel Miranda gives us an unashamed sugar rush of showbiz rapture and showbiz solemnity in this heartfelt tribute to Broadway legend Jonathan Larson, played here by Andrew Garfield. Larson was the composer who created the smash-hit 90s show Rent but…