The T-shirt says it all: “This body was built on arroz con gandules.” Arroz con gandules, or rice with pigeon peas, is a Puerto Rican classic, and Robin de Jesús wears the shirt with pride under a burnt orange jacket.

In ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!,’ Robin de Jesús knew he could do it

Truth trickles over like a hot block of lava when two lovers, on the brink of separation, fight. "Everyone is unhappy in New York!" Jonathan 'Jon' Larson (Andrew Garfield) screams in defense when Susan (Alexandra Shipp) tells him what he has, frankly, known all along: that he is a success-crazed, table-waiting, broke artiste with a pigeon-holed approach towards musical writing.

'Tick, Tick... Boom!' review: Andrew Garfield's ode to musical genius is heart-wrenching

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In ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!,’ Robin de Jesús knew he could do it

'Tick, Tick... Boom!' review: Andrew Garfield's ode to musical genius is heart-wrenching