The complexity of the storytelling is the movie’s central delight it’s among the year’s best-edited films.
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Miranda brings to it all an enticing, heartwarming, and ferocious sincerity, portraying the kaleidoscopic whirl of incidents using flashbacks within flashbacks and depicting Jonathan’s stories by means of the gleeful exaggerations of musical-fantasy sequences. This tumultuous jumble of complications makes for a very lively tale, a rousing and fervent and self-deprecatingly self-questioning batch of songs by Larson, and an ample group of characters and situations and intense if straightforward emotions. Amid conflict, temptation, and tragedy, he has just a few days to compose a new song for the musical, but, for the first time in his composing life, finds that his inspiration has dried up. Jonathan is in a state of constant mourning, as the AIDS epidemic is ravaging his circle of friends. Jonathan’s lifelong best friend, Michael (Robin de Jesús), is a struggling actor who has traded show biz for a lucrative job in advertising and all that goes with it (including health insurance and a clean modern apartment in an Upper East Side high-rise), and Michael wants to use his connections to get Jonathan work as a composer of jingles. She has been offered a permanent job with a dance company in the Berkshires, and she wants Jonathan to join her there, but she can’t get his attention long enough for a serious talk. Jonathan has long been in a relationship with Susan (Alexandra Shipp), a dancer, who has been struggling professionally, too-albeit with a bit more success and recognition. Yet, in anticipation of the workshop bringing him a producer, financial backing, and his major breakthrough, he quits his job at the diner. He can’t pay his bills, and his electricity is about to be turned off. The producer of the workshop, Ira (Jonathan Marc Sherman), is making him pay for the backing band. His agent, Rosa ( Judith Light), hasn’t returned his calls-in a year. The very premise of the solo show, and of the story that Jonathan tells in it, is the pressure of time-the sense that, upon hitting thirty, his youth and his promise will be gone and he’ll be left with himself as a pathetic and over-the-hill failure, not a rising composer but a desperate crank on the way down to oblivion-with neither the artistic glory that he single-mindedly pursued nor the conventional success that he cavalierly spurned in pursuing it. He’s nearly broke, living from paycheck to paycheck, and pinning all his hopes on a workshop performance of the science-fiction musical that he has spent eight years writing. He’s working as a waiter at the photogenic Moondance Diner and living in a dilapidated high-floor walkup somewhere on the rumpled edges of SoHo. That story is set in early 1990, when Jonathan is about to turn thirty, with little to show for his many years of musical exertions.
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The first-person story that Jonathan tells in his narration and his songs is the springboard for the drama, which is shown in an endearingly complex interweave of flashbacks and fantasies. He’s accompanied by two singers (Vanessa Hudgens and Joshua Henry) and a band. The anchor of the action is the show itself, which Jonathan (the character played by Garfield, as distinguished from the real-life Larson) is performing, onstage, at the piano, in front of an audience-but not solo.
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Working with a script by Steven Levenson, Miranda endows the movie with a casually elaborate structure. His mere sufficiency in that department is the wavering note to which the entire movie is tuned and which, for all its many virtues, makes the film slip away from its emotional center. But, unfortunately, Garfield isn’t a musical force of nature or anything close. Boom!,” Andrew Garfield plays the singer-songwriter he gamely sings and energetically gambols and uninhibitedly emotes and, in general, holds the screen with fervent charm, as movie stars do. In Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film of Larson’s quasi-autobiographical solo show “Tick, Tick.
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The late Jonathan Larson was more than a great lyricist and composer he was also a force of nature in musical performance.