who died of an aortic aneurysm in the early morning on the day his iconic musical premiered at the East Village’s New York Theatre Workshop in 1996.
He was just 35, and never lived to see “Rent” move to Broadway and become a worldwide phenomenon.“Tick, Tick,” which Larson wrote as a one-man show for himself in 1990, takes place well before that sad day, but his death movingly hovers over every scene.
Running time: 115 minutes. <br>Rated PG-13 (some strong language, some suggestive material and drug references.) In select theaters and on Netflix.In the new musical, Larson, played by an exceptional Andrew Garfield, struggles to finish a boundary-breaking musical while his friends are dying of AIDS all around him.
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