NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
#0NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:30pm
This is hot.... Neil Patrick Harris will open Tick Tick Boom! in London!
LONDON -- "tick, tick ... BOOM!," the three-character Jonathan Larson musical that went through several casts Off Broadway, will open at a fringe London venue at the end of May. American thesp Neil Patrick Harris will star.
Scott SchwartzScott Schwartz will direct the production at the Menier Chocolate Factory, previously home to the popular one-man play "Fully Committed," starring Mark Setlock, which transferred to the Arts Theater for a commercial run.
Show starts perfs May 31, opens June 9 and is skedded for a 14-week run through Sept. 3. Production will have an all-British creative team, aside from Schwartz and leading man Harris, whose New York theater credits include "Cabaret," "Proof" and "Assassins." (Raul Esparza originated the role Off Broadway.) The inhouse production team at the Menier in southeast London pegged the capitalization at $130,000.
The success of Larson's show, which was produced in New York after the "Rent" composer's death, will be something of a test case for Off Broadway tuners in London, a town that can be unfriendly to contempo American musicals.
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#1re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:34pmHm, good for him. I can't really picture him as Jon, tho.
#2re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:34pmThanks. Thats excellent news. Too bad its in over London and I'm here.
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#3re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:34pmwow. interesting. now when do the rights become available to us here in the us??? mti still says "currently restricted"
ikmbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#4re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:41pmI wish I was in London. I told my mom that Les Miz was still playing in London (am I right?) but i dont think we are going in the 14 weeks its playing.
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#5re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:43pmWHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?! I can't beleive this!
#6re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:43pm*goes to London*
#7re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:58pmYeah...I think I need to move to London this summer...
QueenMuppet
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/29/04
#8re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:02pm
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm DEAD! I'm SO in London! Why did I leave London and move to NYC.... London, it's time I returned for a visit.
QM
#9re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:05pmI'm going in your pocket, QM!
QueenMuppet
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/29/04
#10re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:09pm
*puts Emcee in her pocket and start packing suitcases*
QM
#11re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:11pm
Wait, I have to pack.
*climbs in*
QueenMuppet
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/29/04
#12re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:14pm
TheNPH, what's the source of your article?
QM
#13re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:18pm
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117920622?categoryid=15&cs=1
...But I think you will have to subscribe...so thats why I just pasted it.
QueenMuppet
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/29/04
#14re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:20pm
Thank you very much. I'm really going, I need to catch up on a few shows anyway and now I have the perfect excuse. I'm 100% going.
QM
#15re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:21pm
*flails after QM*
You knowww you want company on the flight!!
#16re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:23pm
Have any extra pockets, QM?
QueenMuppet
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/29/04
#17re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:27pm
Guys, get the extra cash and we are going to London! Because I'm definitely going.... Sell your young bodies if you have to.
QM
#18re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:29pm*pokes bank statement, hoping it will grow*
#19re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/11/05 at 10:14am
Oh bloody hell. Why do I live in Cleveland....
QM - you must video record this!! (kidding. well, ok, not really)
QueenMuppet
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/29/04
#20re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:17pm
BUMP
Just have to rub into everyone's face that I bought my first ticket for this... and YES, I'm going to London! 
QM
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#21re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:22pmAnd another one for me, right?
#22re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:28pmI'm wondering about how well this will do there, considering that RENT wasn't really as much of a success in London as people had hoped it would be, apparently. I mean, I'm assuming TTB did well in New York because of familiarith with Larson, so I wonder if it will attract attention even if a lot of people there don't know that much about him.... or do they?
amasis
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/7/04
#23re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:33pmI hate QM. I just have to say that. Hmph.
QueenMuppet
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/29/04
#24re: NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London
Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:49pm
Emcee, it's going to be playing at a very small venue. I assume that it might get a good, loyal following and that's all they need.
Rent had a loyal following too but just not quite enough to fill that huge theatre.
And Amasis, you love me really. 
Nia, I wish you could come. 
QM
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