Garfield spent a year working with various vocal coaches, learning to play piano, and closely studying Larson’s performances on YouTube. “I asked him, ‘Can you sing?’ And he said, ‘When are you making the movie?’ And I said, ‘Not for at least a year.’ And he goes, ‘A year. In the tick, tick… BOOM! press notes, Miranda elaborated a little. Garfield laughed, adding: “And I freak out! That’s a good friend, who will lie on your behalf.”Īndrew Garfield learned to play piano for 'tick, tick. As soon as Lin left, I called Andrew, and I said, ‘Can you sing? Because I just lied to Lin-Manuel.’”

“I said, ‘Of course he can sing! He has the voice of an angel!’,” Miele told CBS. So, he called up Greg Miele, a massage therapist in New York City who works with both Garfield and Miranda.

He does – and he plays piano in the film, too.īefore filming tick, tick… BOOM!, Garfield had just finished an 18-week, Tony Award-winning Broadway run of Angels in America, which examines AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s.Ī CBS interview with Garfield reveals that Miranda saw Garfield in the Broadway show and was impressed, but wasn’t sure if he could sing. So, does Andrew Garfield really sing in tick, tick.

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