Since then, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical remains omnipresent in the cultural consciousness as a foundational arm of the modern musical theater canon.īut it was Larson’s tick, tick. Months after his death, Rent moved to Broadway, where it ran for 12 years and 5,123 performances before closing in 2008. In the new film, Garfield stars as Jonathan Larson, the real-life theater wunderkind who died tragically of an aortic aneurysm on January 25, 1996, the night before his era-defining musical Rent debuted off-Broadway. It’s frankly disarming just how good Andrew Garfield is in the forthcoming film adaptation of tick, tick.
