DECEMBER 03, 2021, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A11
Keizer kids disguise the
turkey in school contest
Students from Keizer Elementary took part in a Disguise the Turkey contest, in
hopes that their turkey would not get eaten for Thanksgiving. Below are some favor-
ites, selected by librarian Tracy Peterson.
Santa will to make an appearance at the Keizer Holiday Lights Parade.
FILE PHOTO, Keizertimes
Travel impact of parade
If you are planning to leave Keizer the evening of Saturday, Dec. 11, make sure you have
an alternate travel route planned.
That night Keizer is host of the Holiday Lights Parade, meaning there will be road
impacts.
The parade travels southbound on River Road starting at Lockhaven Drive at 7 p.m.
Dec. 11, and disbands at the intersection of River Road and Glynbrook Street North.
The Keizer Police Department will have two areas closed for the parade and other
activities. The impact starts at 3:30 p.m., when Lockhaven Drive N. is closed to all traffic
between River and McClure Street N. to establish a parade staging area.
River Road will be closed to all northbound and southbound traffic around 6 p.m.
from Plymouth Drive to Lockhaven. Northbound River Road traffic will be diverted to
Cherry Avenue Northeast via Plymouth Drive while southbound River Road traffic will be
diverted eastbound on Lockhaven.
Prior to the parade and other events, traffic will periodically be allowed to cross River
Road at Chemawa Road, Dearborn Avenue and Manbrin Drive.
River Road is expected to re-open around 9 p.m. as the parade continues southbound.
Signs advising of street closures are expected to be placed leading up to the day of the
parade. Police are asking for sidewalks along River Road to be kept clear of chairs until the
parade starts so that disabled citizens can travel on them.
Tick, Tick...BOOM! is successful adaptation
BY T.J REID
For the Keizertimes
As Homer Simpson once said,
“Trying is the first step towards failure…
the lesson is, never try.” As a flawless
human being, I am not personally famil-
iar with the concept of failing, but every-
one else in the world would do well to not
heed this fatherly bit of advice. I am told
that a much healthier way of looking at
things was expressed by Thomas Edison
when he insisted that he “(had) not
failed (to make the lightbulb). (He) had
just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Broadway legend Jonathan Larson did
not have to write 10,000 musicals before
figuring things out, but he did need at
least one failure before he hit the big
time. That failure and the story behind
it is explored in Tick, Tick… BOOM!, a
Netflix adaptation of the off-Broadway
show of the same name that beautifully
celebrates the creative process, art, and
the people who make it.
The structure of tick, tick…
BOOM! was a bit confusing to me at
first. Originally a stage show, BOOM! is
about the failure of another stage show
entitled Superbia. This is the film adap-
tation of BOOM! that includes bits as
they would have been seen on stage
in the original production (ie. with a
three-person cast, band, and no sets to
speak of), but the majority of the film
dramatizes the story as what you as
an audience member of the play are
supposed to be imagining while watch-
ing the actual minimalistic show. That’s
how I, as a Broadway neophyte, inter-
preted things, anyway.
While initially puzzled, I really grew
to appreciate the creativity and authen-
ticity of this approach over time. Those
two adjectives are perfect descriptors of
the entire experience, in fact. You would
never guess that this was Lin-Manuel
Miranda’s first time directing a feature
film if you didn’t know that fact going in,
as he seems to fit as naturally behind a
camera as he does composing behind a
piano. Buoying Miranda’s freshman out-
ing is a screenplay that cleverly adapts
the small and personal play in a way that
actually works on screen and still man-
ages to convey the intimacy of the orig-
inal venue, as well as Andrew Garfield’s
stunning performance as Jonathan
Larson himself. Who knew that guy
could sing? I didn’t.
Nowhere is the creativity of Tick,
Tick… BOOM! more apparent than in the
musical numbers, however. For those
who don’t know (I didn’t), Jonathan
Larson would later go on to write
the smash-hit Rent and get that one
string of numbers stuck in everybody’s
heads for all of eternity, and a song or
two in BOOM! might have the same
result on audiences as well (there are
also some “talky” songs that basically
amount to people randomly moving
their voices up and down while talking,
however, which I must admit I am not
a fan of). The music, choreography, and
camera work of the diner number makes
that scene a particular stand out, and if
you don’t have the time (or patience) to
watch the entire movie you should at
least look up that bit on YouTube (the
cameos in this scene alone are enough
to thrill committed theater goers).
Andrew Garfield stars in Tick, Tick...Boom!
If failure is an excellent teacher,
then the people behind Tick, Tick…
BOOM! probably didn’t learn much. But
that’s what happens when you success-
fully create the lightbulb on your first
try.
Tick, Tick… BOOM! is now available
on Netflix.
Netflix