EXCLUSIVE: Why This Broadway Icon Was Edited Out of the "tick, tick... BOOM!" Diner Scene
by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. (EXCLUSIVE) NEW YORK, NY - Re[ports are circulating this morning that the instant classic Moondance Diner scene in Lin-Manuel Miranda's acclaimed adaptation of Jonathan Larson's tick, tick... BOOM! was set to feature one more Broadway cameo unceremoniously cut from the final product: the King Kong Puppet from the musical King Kong. We caught up with Miranda himself to finally get the story straight on this shocking edit. "Having the puppet itself