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“We don’t want to see scraggly 1990s New York,” he said. Then, while watching the Sondheim musical on PBS over and over again, editor Weisblum wondered if they should go outside of the diner. However, what to do after the big reveal of the Broadway legends took some thought. In keeping with the interior design and the lyrics of Larson’s song, the green, silver, blue, and purple stools come to life along with the metallic sheen of the diner walls. At that time, the menu was a little more sophisticated than a regular diner.” Jonathan described it as a dusty diner, but when we saw what went on inside, it actually became a greasy spoon later on. “But because of the meta mechanics of this story, it was important to present New York as it actually was at that time. “First, we had to recreate the Moondance as it was because, from the very beginning, we realized that musicals tend to romanticize and heighten almost from the get-go,” said production designer DiGerlando. They were joined by “Rent” original cast members Adam Pascal, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and Wilson Jermaine Heredia, and “Hamilton’s” Miranda (as a cook) and Schuyler sisters: Renée Elise Goldsberry and Phillipa Soo. Thus, through strict protocols and safe distancing, Miranda managed to assemble a who’s who list of cameos by Bernadette Peters (“Sunday”), Chita Rivera (“Chicago”), Joel Grey (“Cabaret”), Phylicia Rashad (“Into the Woods”), Brian Stokes Mitchell (“Ragtime”), André De Shields (“Hadestown”), Howard McGillin (“The Phantom of the Opera”), Chuck Cooper (“The Life”), Bebe Neuwirth (“Chicago”), and Beth Malone (“Fun Home”). Miranda’s idea was to not only pay tribute to Larson’s heroes of Broadway but also to his own legacy, since he tragically died before the opening of “Rent” and was unable to witness its impact on the theater world. Second, through “Tick Tick Boom” director Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ambitious, even miraculous, staging of the scene in a replica of the ’90s diner on a New York soundstage. First, through Jonathan Larson’s (Andrew Garfield) tribute song, “Sunday,” set in The Moondance Diner in SoHo, where he toils as a waiter and dreams of becoming the next Sondheim.
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The sublime “Sunday” diner scene with the Broadway legends in Netflix’s “ Tick Tick Boom” has become even more tear-inducing and meta with the recent passing of Stephen Sondheim, whose “Sunday in the Park with George” musical about French pointillist painter Georges Seurat started it all.