Tick, Tick…Boom! – 7

Good music and a clever production – at one point a musical within a musical within a musical – marred mainly by an annoyingly frenetic Andrew Garfield in the lead. For the first half hour I feared I was back In the Heights, but the movie slowly grew on me and charmed me by the end, with its echoes of Rent to come adding welcome gravitas. Bradley Whitford’s portrayal of Stephen Sondheim, who died the day before I saw it, added some more.