![]() On the top row of seats sits Chad Beguelin (lyricist for The Prom and the new material for Broadway's Aladdin), Matthew Sklar (Beguelin's composing partner on The Prom, The Wedding Singer, and Elf), Stephen Schwartz (legendary composer/lyricist of Wicked, Pippin, and Godspell), Tom Kitt (composer for the Pulitizer Prize-winning Next to Normaland co-composer with Lin-Manuel Miranda for Bring It On: The Musical), Amanda Green (co-composer and lyricist for Hands on a Hard Body and co-lyricist for Bring It On), Jaime Lozano (rising star composer of The Yellow Brick Road), Steven Levenson (screenwriter of the film and Tony-winning book writer of Dear Evan Hansen), and Quiara Alegría Hudes (book writer for Miranda's In the Heights). However, the rest of the panel is filled with actual esteemed playwrights and composers. In the scene where Larson plays a piece in a writers workshop for a panel, the focus is squarely on Stephen Sondheim (the composer and Broadway legend who sadly passed away recently), played by Bradley Whitford. ![]() Nicola, who, from 1988 until this year, served as artistic director of the New York Theatre Workshop where Rent debuted Off-Broadway. Facing towards the camera is actor, Roger Bart, Tony winner for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and nominee for The Producers, who was a fellow waiter at the diner with Larson and participated in the actual workshop of Superbia that is dramatized in the film. Just to show how minuscule these cameos can be, we have two people who could simply be background extras in the opening number "30/90." However, the two men sitting at this diner table are fairly important to Larson's true-life story. Here is a chronicle of every cameo in Tick, Tick.Boom! With Miranda telling Larson's story, he could enlist a cavalcade of Broadway stalwarts, be it luminaries in the community or just workaday folks, to spread throughout his adaptation of Larson's Ti ck, Tick.Boom! Even outside the supporting cast of Broadway figures like Robin de Jesús, Joshua Henry, and Judith Light, very rarely does a scene pass by without a cameo from someone in the theater community. Miranda is also beloved in the theater community and has taken up the mantle of being the cultural ambassador for Broadway. Lin-Manuel Miranda unquestionably took up the mantle as Broadway's new rock star composer, with Hamilton becoming the biggest musical since Rent to really make a seismic cultural impact.
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