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Shows · tick, tick... BOOM! · Production, 2001

tick, tick... BOOM!, 2001

Opened 2001

215 performances

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 2000s, this had the 89th longest run.

Who was in it4 named

Raúl Esparza as Jon

Creative team

Director
Scott Schwartz

Recordings 2 released while this run was on

2001
tick, tick... BOOM!
tick, tick... BOOM! Released 2001
2001
tick, tick... BOOM! RCA Victor 09026-63862-2, released September 11, 2001
United States

5 more exist for other runs of this show: see tick, tick... BOOM! for all of them.

Around this production

Tick, Tick... Boom! (styled as tick, tick... BOOM!) is a musical by Jonathan Larson. It tells the story of an aspiring composer named Jon, who lives in New York City in 1990. Jon is worried he has made the wrong career choice to be part of the performing arts. The story is semi-autobiographical, as stated by Larson's father in the liner notes of the cast recording – Larson had been trying to establish himself in theater since the early 1980s. Larson began to perform the piece as a solo work in 1990. After his death in 1996, it was revised and revamped by playwright David Auburn as a three-actor piece and was premiered off-Broadway in 2001. Since then, the show has had an Off West End product…

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