Before he wowed Broadway with Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda appeared in a production of tick, tick… Boom! The 1990 musical, by American playwright and composer Jonathan Larson, is little known - certainly compared to the smash hit Hamilton.
But Larson is largely credited with Rent, a show that won him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and three Tony awards, so the show has impressive pedigree.
Larson sadly never got to see Rent become a famous musical, as he died at 35 of an aortic aneurysm in 1996, the day before its preview performance. READ NEXT - The cameos viewers didn't expect in Netflix movie Red Notice The musical tick, tick … Boom!
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