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Despite having no singing experience, Andrew Garfield became Lin-Manuel Miranda's top choice to play Jonathan Larson after seeing Garfield's Tony-winning performance in the 2018 Broadway revival of Angels in America. Andrew Garfield learned how to sing for the film, dedicating a year to training his voice.
Jonathan Larson's estate was originally not keen on having his life story portrayed on screen. They were swayed by the idea of Lin-Manuel Miranda being on board, and he was intent on having the score credited to Jonathan Larson, digging through the Larson archives to find unused music for the film. Jonathan Larson's sister, Julie Larson, is a producer on the film and was instrumental in pushing that the production depict her brother "warts and all".
Jonathan Larson originally conceived Tick, Tick... Boom! as a one-man show. In 2001, it was revised and revamped by playwright David Auburn as a three-actor piece. This film expands the cast even further.
The production managed to film for just 8 days before they had to shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. For the next six months, the cast held rehearsals on Zoom which they called "Tick Tick Zooms".
Scenes depicting Jonathan Larson performing the in-film version of Tick, Tick... Boom! were shot at the New York Theatre Workshop, during the time he performed it as a one-man show, in 1990, and where Larson's mega-hit musical Rent would later officially premier Off-Broadway in 1996.
Stephen Sondheim is mentioned several times, revealed by friends to be an idol and a mentor to Jonathan Larson, and a help to Lin-Manuel Miranda during production. Mr Sondheim passed away on November 26, 2021 just a few days after the Netflix premiere.
The three "bums" in the Sunday brunch number are played by The Original Broadway Cast members from Rent: Adam Pascal, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and Wilson Jermaine Heredia. The other "patrons" are all Broadway legends. The cook at the diner is the director, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Larson died from an aortic dissection, believed to have been caused by undiagnosed Marfan syndrome. His body was found on the kitchen floor by his roommate at 3am. Larson had been suffering severe chest pains, dizziness, and shortness of breath for several days before his death, but doctors at Cabrini Medical Center and St. Vincent's Hospital could not find signs of an aortic dissection even after conducting a chest X-ray and electrocardiogram, so they misdiagnosed it either as influenza or stress. New York State medical investigators concluded that if the aortic dissection had been properly diagnosed and treated with cardiac surgery, Larson may have lived.
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