Despite this, she leaves for home, and Jon thinks about what may have happened to make her behave this way ('See Her Smile'). After the rehearsal, Susan sees Jon and Karessa walking together and becomes jealous. She reveals a similar weakness for Twinkies, and this leads to a sudden friendship between the two. At the market, he spies Karessa Johnson, one of his actors for SUPERBIA.

Michael tells Jon that the life Susan wants doesn't sound bad, and that he wishes his job could give him the chance to settle down ('Real Life').Īfter dropping Michael off, Jon goes to a rehearsal for SUPERBIA, but not before stopping to get a snack of Twinkies ('Sugar'). As Jon drives Michael to the airport for a business trip, they argue about the meeting. Jon sees the futility of the process and his unwillingness to cooperate gets him removed from the meeting. Back at home, Jon plans to spend the remainder of the evening composing, but is interrupted by a call from Susan ('Therapy').Īt Michael's office, the brainstorming session involves naming a cooking fat substitute through a convoluted process. He agrees to accompany Michael to work the next day and visit a brainstorming session at his firm. Michael exults at the thought of a life of luxury ('No More'), and pressures Jon further to consider changing his career path. His reverie is cut short when he remembers his day job as a waiter in a SoHo diner ('Sunday').Īfter work, Michael picks Jon up in his brand new BMW to show Jon his new apartment. Jon is torn between following his dream of composing and opting for security and family in a different career ('Johnny Can’t Decide'). The next morning, Susan asks Jon about the possibility of leaving New York. When Susan comes to join him, he comments on her dress and how beautiful it makes her look ('Green Green Dress'). On the roof of his apartment building, Jon reveals that he is nervous about an upcoming workshop of his newest musical, SUPERBIA.

Susan, Jon's girlfriend, is a dancer who teaches ballet to 'wealthy and untalented children'. Michael, a friend of Jon's since childhood, gave up acting to pursue a more lucrative career in marketing. The year is 1990, and as his 30th birthday approaches Jon is worried about his aging and lack of achievement ('30/90'). Jon is an aspiring composer for musical theater, who lives in SoHo, New York. Auburn received credit as 'Script Consultant'. This revised version of the piece premiered Off-Broadway at the Jane Street Theater on May 23, 2001. Also, the script and score were streamlined and edited. He restructured the monologue into a three-actor musical, with one actor playing Jon and the other two actors playing Michael and Susan, as well as all the other roles in the show. In 1995, he saw the New York Theatre Workshop production of Larson's musical Rent and convinced his fellow producers to bring it to Broadway.Īfter Larson's death in 1996, Leacock asked David Auburn, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof, to reconfigure Tick, Tick. The performance attracted the attention of a young producer named Jeffrey Seller, who became a fan of Larson's work. Larson performed the show as a 'rock monologue', a new form of theatre for the time. Boom!, and presented with him as performer in November 1991 at the Village Gate (produced by Larson's college friend Victoria Leacock), and then later in 19 in the 'O Solo Mio' fests at New York Theatre Workshop. Larson revised the developing piece following the Second Stage workshop, changing the title to Tick, Tick. The show was first performed as a workshop between September 6 and Septemby Jonathan Larson at the Off-Broadway playhouse Second Stage Theater under the title Boho Days. It was generally well received by critics with Garfield receiving an Academy Award nomination for his performance. Since then, the show has had an Off West End production, a West End production, an American national tour, two Off-Broadway revivals, in 20, and numerous local and international productions.Ī film adaptation, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and starring Andrew Garfield in the lead role, was released by Netflix in November 2021. 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. Larson began to perform the piece as a solo work in 1990. 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. Jon is worried he has made the wrong career choice to be part of the performing arts. It tells the story of an aspiring composer named Jon, who lives in New York City in 1990.

Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical Jane Street Theater, Manhattan, New York City

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