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 died at 35 of an aortic failure, just before opening night, an almost unbearable metaphor for the backstage heartbreak of musical theatre.
(Miranda himself has a cameo as a short-order cook in the diner where Larson had to work as a waiter in his early years.)This movie has been adapted by screenwriter Steven Levenson from tick, tick … Boom!, Larson’s autobiographical piece that came just before Rent, and told the story of his first major musical project: a wildly ambitious futurist fantasy called Superbia that almost no one seemed to get.
The film
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