“I grew up absolutely obsessed with ‘Rent,'” remembers producer Julie Oh about the classic Jonathan Larson musical, but she didn’t discover Larson’s earlier autobiographical musical “tick, tick… Boom!” until 2014, when she saw the Encores! production starring Lin-Manuel Miranda. “There are very few moments in your life when you see something and it feels like it was written for you, and you sit there in the audience and the first thing that you want to do is share it with someone.” We talked with Oh as part of our “Meet the Experts” Film Producers Panel. Watch our exclusive video interview with Oh above.
“After I saw it I immediately asked myself, why doesn’t the world know about this extraordinary story of struggling, not knowing where you’re going to go, being at a crossroads in life and having to choose a path?” Oh adds. Well, if the...
“After I saw it I immediately asked myself, why doesn’t the world know about this extraordinary story of struggling, not knowing where you’re going to go, being at a crossroads in life and having to choose a path?” Oh adds. Well, if the...
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