was playing Michael, and Karen Olivo was playing Susan. This was a couple months before Hamilton would start its first performances at The Public, and it was Lin playing the main role of Jonathon, or Jon, as it was at the time. I remember sitting in one of the handful of performances that they had at Encores in 2014. She’s been busy since that summer night in New York City so many years ago: After several years working as a producer at Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment, she hung out her own shingle (mid-pandemic, no less), OhCo, and set a first-look deal with Chernin Entertainment.īut for the moment, it’s all about reveling in the magic of seeing tick, tick…Boom!, at long last, come alive for the world on the big screen. Every piece of the production-from the casting to the myriad Easter eggs-feels like a sincere and intentional tribute to Larson, to Broadway, and to the return of theater, finally, to New York.ī catches up with the producer who made it all happen. The result, streaming on Netflix and in theaters now, is a masterful film with Andrew Garfield in the lead role, and Miranda-fittingly-behind the camera, marking his directorial debut.

The evening kicked off her seven-year journey to adapting Larson’s show for the big screen. “You know when you’re transported by a story because it feels like it was written for you? That’s me,” she says. Since its debut, tick, tick…Boom! had evolved considerably, and Oh was blown away by it. Larson passed away unexpectedly the morning before his seminal work began previews off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop. He’d staged it off-off-Broadway in the fall of 1990, six years before his musical Rent would make him famous-a fame he’d never know. Tick, tick…Boom! was Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical musical, initially written as a one-man rock monologue. In 2014, Julie Oh-then a rising studio exec-settled into her seat at the New York City Center for a performance of tick, tick…Boom! It was one of five that June, all starring a post- In the Heights, pre- Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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