tick, tick... BOOM!
Shows · tick, tick... BOOM!
Jon, a young composer in New York City, is about to turn 30 and fears his dreams of writing a great American musical are slipping away. As his best friend Michael abandons art for a lucrative advertising career and his girlfriend Susan wants to leave the city, Jon races to finish his ambitious rock musical while waiting tables and questioning whether he should give up on his passion.
- Opened
- 2001
- Performances
- 215
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions1 on Broadway
| 2001 | Original Theatre unknown. · Scott Schwartz | 215 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 7 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Tick, Tick... Boom! matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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3 passages naming tick, tick... BOOM!, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Later, Larson’s struggle to get a musical produced was dramatized in the 2001 musical tick, tick... BOOM! Here we saw Larson (Raul Esparza) as a young composer-lyricist who sometimes feels he’s getting nowhere. Part of his angst comes from turning thirty. book:broadway-musicals-the-biggest-hit-and-the-biggest-flop-of-filichia-peter-new-yor#p221
Ironic that in tick, tick... BOOM! Larson is shown to be consumed with Stephen Sondheim’s opinions of his work. He especially admires Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George. book:broadway-musicals-the-biggest-hit-and-the-biggest-flop-of-filichia-peter-new-yor#p222
a superb re-rendering of Jonathan Larson's tick, tick... BOOM! that opened at the Jane Street Theater in June 2001, with Larson’s book effectively reworked by David Auburn, reconfirmed one tragic fact: No one wrote better rock and roll songs for the stage than the deceased composer of Rent had. book:ever-after-the-last-years-of-musical-theater-and-beyond-singer-barry-1957-new-yo#p259
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