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the plot
tick, tick ... BOOM! is the musical tale of Jonathan's days as a struggling artist in SoHo - an artist on the verge of exploding!
It is 1990, and RENT is still six years away from its Broadway debut. It's the week of Jonathan's 30th birthday. His girlfriend Susan wants to get married and move out of the city. His best friend Michael has given up acting for marketing, bought a BMW, and is moving uptown. Should he sell out his dreams of becoming a composer and join the corporate rat race on Madison Avenue as Michael has? Should he commit to Susan and move with her to Cape Cod as she wishes? He’s tired of waiting tables to pay the rent, a job he’s done for the past six years, and he hopes that the musical he’s been working on for the past five years, Superbia, which is in rehearsals and about to be work-shopped, will be his big break. With fourteen songs, ten characters, three actors, and a band, tick, tick...BOOM! is a musical look at facing a crossroads in life and holding onto dreams.
the history
The show was originally entitled 30/90, and was conceived as a one-man show. Larson performed the work in various small venues in New York before abandoning it to work on what eventually became Rent. Pulitzer Prize-winning David Auburn (author of the acclaimed Proof) worked with the producers of tick, tick…BOOM! to adapt the multiple versions that Larson had left into a coherent whole for three performers representing Jonathan, the protagonist; Michael, his best friend; Susan, his girlfriend and multiple characters they encounter.
The show opened on June 13, 2001 at the Jane Street Theatre ran for eight months, and has since been produced across the United States, Korea, the Philippines, Australia ,and Singapore.
This production will mark the show's Canadian premiere.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
