Lin-Manuel Miranda and cast talk ‘Tick, Tick…BOOM!’
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tick, tick.. Boom! – Netflix
Jonathan Larson was the boy wonder of musical theater in the early 1990s. His unprecedentedly flamboyant, life-affirming rock opera RENT played for 12 years on Broadway and is one of the most iconic, recognisable musicals ever. However Larson’s story is one that ended in tragedy. In the early hours of the morning, on January 26, 1996, on the day of RENT‘s first public performance, Larson suddenly died of an aortic dissection, most likely caused by undiagnosed Marfan Syndrome. RENT would go on to change our perception of what musicals could be, but Larson never saw the impact his work had on the world.
