Andrew Garfield, Lin-Manuel Miranda join to make art that sings

Lin-Manuel Miranda warned Andrew Garfield he might not get it at first as he slid music and lyrics across the table. What Garfield did get, eventually, was a "long-lost brother" in the late Jonathan Larson, writer of the musical phenomenon "Rent." And, one supposes, by a kind of associative property, in Miranda as well.

Miranda (the charming but mad scientist — involved in four films released last year) and Garfield (dapper, dedicated, sincere) sat down with The Envelope to chat about the making of Miranda's studio feature directorial debut, "Tick, Tick ... Boom!," based on the musical monologue of the same name Larson wrote about his own creative struggles. In a 2014 stage