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Come To Your Senses is not meant to fit in with the rest of the show. It is supposed to be a performance of Superbia that your seeing. You have to keep in mind that Come To Your Senses was not a song Larson wrote for Tick Tick Boom. It was one he wrote for Superbia.

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First, I thought "I love the SP photo" was meaning to talk about South Pacific, so I was really confused... even though I saw the sock puppet picture haha.

And I'm stupid because I thought that it was NLB not Raul. I have the recording too. wow But I really like some of the songs of this show, it isn't the strongest but neither is RENT.

Kitzarina- why do you attend so many high school talent shows?

I always thought of TTB as good as long as you go into it knowing that RENT was coming next. Most of the songs are ALMOST great, but they lack that indefinable quality that RENT, as a whole, seemed to have. Nevertheless, as long as you know the backstory and the "Stakes" (which couldn't be higher when the show is basically about needing to write what is the defining piece of musical theater for a generation) that TTB is an enjoyable show.

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heres why I like it:

Gotta admit, i'm a huge rent fan and found it that way, so i'd chalk a great deal of it to that

I personally love Jonathan Larson's music. I think it has a smooth but edgy touch to both the lyrics and songs that set him aside from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sondheim. Although i love a great deal of their work, some of their songs can beinterchangable within shows - they repeat a lot of the same chord progressions and the music takes the time predictable turns (listen to Johanna V.S. No One is Alone OR Music of the Night V.S. Memory)

Larson's music rarely repeats and seems to defy usual expectations on where the notes are headed.

I'm also fascinated by the fact that its very much an autobiography of a man who died before realizing the success he had. "Johnny" of Tick...Tick...Boom and the struggling Diner-waiter/pre-RENT composer of John Larson are one in the same, and I feel like i know the end of thr story when the writer himself didn't.

Its a musical that i like for, as you can tell, weird reasons, but that might address the fact that people like it despite the fact that its not the best show