They glance at one another wistfully, but never quite make eye contact. In another scene, two students share an elevator at the school. The camera catches some students dancing to the soundtrack while others sit on the floor, notebooks propped open on their laps. One scene shows a bright windowed hallway of the Baltimore school. Still, Tick, TickBoom saves itself from the navel-gazing brink by having both Larson’s writing, and Miranda’s staging of that writing, repeatedly acknowledge the narcissistic insularity of. What does that life look like to us?”īSA’s submission was sent to Netflix, which combined it with videos from the other four arts programs and whittled it down to a tight six minutes, cutting from one school to the next. We’re teenagers and we have things we want to accomplish. “Even if you have to kick yourself, just go out and do it. “The song is about taking your chance at life” Amirah said. Junior Amirah Peay, 17, directed the school’s video submission and said that the message in “Louder Than Words,” resonated with her. (Wearing black mask) Amirah Peay, 17, Baltimore School for the Arts (BSA), and other BSA students watch a video of their interpretation of "Louder Than Words” a song that will be used to promote the Netflix film 'Tick, Tick.Boom!' (Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun ) And collaboration is the direction in which the art world is moving.”Ĭauthen doesn’t know how the Baltimore school was selected to participate in a project about Larson, but finds it serendipitous alumna Tracie Thoms performed the role of the attorney Joanne Jefferson in the 2005 film adaptation of “Rent.” Shooting this musical theater video became an experience of bringing people together. “Here in our building we have filmmakers, music students, theater kids and dancers. “We really played up the spirit of collaboration,” Cauthen said. The students worked on the video during class time, they worked on it after school, and they worked on it during weekends. Ultimately, almost 40 students from every discipline at the school - including visual arts and stage design - and half a dozen faculty members participated in the video. “Right away, we said, ‘let’s make this happen.” “When we heard that Netflix and Lin-Manuel were involved, our eyes lit up,” Cauthen said. The Baltimore high school turned itself upside down for a month after Netflix approached administrators earlier this fall about the video, according to the principal, Rosiland Cauthen. Students Hassan Aziz and Amirah Peay, who attend the Baltimore School for the Arts, were involved in the filming of a video for the song 'Louder Than Words.' (Pat Galluzzo/Pat Galluzzo/Baltimore School for the Arts)
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