At the workshop are friends, family, and industry professionals, including Sondheim. He heads to a swimming pool to vent his frustrations over the workshop and his personal life, before finally coming up with the new song. After receiving an encouraging call from his agent Rosa, Jonathan tries to write the new song the night before the workshop, but his power gets cut off. Michael accuses him of wasting the privilege to have a life with the person he loves-something Michael cannot do as a gay man in the AIDS crisis-for the sake of a financially unstable theater career. He chooses to prioritize the workshop, which leads to trouble in his personal life: Susan, frustrated by Jonathan's indecisiveness and obsession with his career, breaks up with him, and he angers Michael when he deliberately sabotages the focus group. Jonathan's anxieties over the workshop and Michael and Susan's offers are compounded when he learns from Carolyn that Freddy, who is HIV-positive, has been hospitalized.
This troubles him, as his idol Stephen Sondheim told him the same at a composing workshop some years ago, but he can't come up with anything and he only has a week. Jonathan's producer Ira asks him to write a new song for Superbia because the story needs it. Michael, who previously left theater for a lucrative advertising career, sees Susan's offer as an opportunity for Jonathan to consider a serious future, and invites Jonathan to join an advertising focus group at his company. Susan tells Jonathan about a teaching job at Jacob's Pillow and asks him to come.
He has a party at home with friends, including his former roommate Michael, his girlfriend Susan, and fellow waiters Freddy and Carolyn. He feels pressure to be successful before he turns 30: with his birthday just over a week away, he sees the workshop as his last chance. In early 1990, Jonathan juggles work at the Moondance Diner in SoHo with preparing for a workshop of his musical and passion project Superbia. An unseen narrator explains the film is the true story of Larson, "except for the parts Jonathan made up." He describes an incessant ticking noise he hears in his head and begins to tell his story. Boom! at New York Theatre Workshop, accompanied by friends Roger and Karessa. In 1992, Jonathan Larson performs his rock monologue Tick, Tick. For his performance, Garfield earned numerous awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. It was named one of the best films of 2021 by the American Film Institute, and was nominated for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy at the 79th Golden Globe Awards, and Best Picture at the 27th Critics' Choice Awards. The film received acclaim for Garfield's performance, the editing and Miranda's direction. Boom! had its world premiere at the AFI Fest on November 10, 2021, and began a limited theatrical release two days later, before streaming on Netflix on November 19. The film stars Andrew Garfield as Larson, alongside Robin de Jesús, Alexandra Shipp, Joshua Henry, Judith Light, and Vanessa Hudgens. Written by Steven Levenson, who also serves as an executive producer, it is based on the stage musical of the same name by Jonathan Larson, a semi-autobiographical story about Larson writing a musical to enter into the theater industry. BOOM!) is a 2021 American biographical musical film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda in his feature directorial debut.
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