Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Sound of Tick, Tick... Boom!

For his feature film directorial debut, director Lin-Manuel Miranda chose to adapt the autobiographical stage musical tick, tick... BOOM! by Jonathan Larson — the Broadway phenom behind Rent. We recently sat down with the director along with Tod Maitland the sound mixer, and Paul Hsu, the re-recoding mixer and supervising sound editor for the film, to discuss how they adapted this small stage show into a fully realized movie musical with a big cast, elaborate set pieces, and a lush soundtrack — all during the Covid-19 pandemic.