Shows · tick, tick... BOOM!
tick, tick... BOOM!
Opened 2001
215 performances
Musical, Modern
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.
- Music
- Jonathan Larson
- Lyrics
- Jonathan Larson
- Book
- Jonathan Larson
Productions1 on Broadway
Recordings 7 recordings
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Tick, Tick... Boom! matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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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