How Lin-Manuel Miranda Pulled Off the Most Thrilling Cameo in Tick, Tick…Boom!

Tick, Tick…Boom! has a bit of pretzel logic built into its core—it’s an adaptation of a stage show by Jonathan Larson that is also a deeply affectionate tribute to Larson, a mostly true biopic about Larson, and an origin story for the Larson who would eventually burst onto the Broadway scene with Rent. On top of all that, the original show that Larson wrote was deeply inspired by Stephen Sondheim, who appeared in the stage show as a cheekily faux-anonymous character called “St—– S——-” and is played in the film version by Bradley Whitford. The real Sondheim, however, has a… Read Full Article