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BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE
In a cinematic sense, 2021 was chock-full of high-profile musicals: West Side Story, In the Heights, Dear Evan Hansen, Annette (and that’s not even getting into the animated territory). But the most musical-centric musical of the lot is Tick, Tick… BOOM!. The Netflix adaptation of RENT composer/playwright Jonathan Larsen’s one-man show about the struggles with creativity and being a young artist in New York City in the early ’90s doesn’t reach the exquisite heights of West Side Story, but it’s an incredibly solid directorial debut for Lin-Manuel Miranda. Andrew Garfield does a
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