tick, tick...BOOM! 2021
In 1992, Jonathan Larson performs his rock monologue Tick, Tick... Boom! in front of an audience at New York Theatre Workshop, accompanied by friends Roger and Karessa Johnson. He describes an incessant ticking noise he hears in his head, and begins talking about the week leading up to his 30th birthday and his desire to become a successful musical theater composer.
In 1990, Jonathan juggles work at the Moondance Diner in SoHo with preparing for a workshop at Playwrights Horizons of his musical Superbia, which he has been working on for eight years. Larson feels pressure to be successful before he turns 30 like his idol Stephen Sondheim, and with both his birthday and the workshop a week away he sees this as his last chance ("30/90"). He has a party at home with friends, including his former roommate Michael, who left acting for advertising, his girlfriend Susan, a dancer-turned-teacher, and fellow waiters Freddy and Carolyn ("Boho Days"). While alone later, Susan tells Jonathan about a teaching job at Jacob's Pillow and asks him to come too ("Green Green Dress").
Jonathan and Michael discuss Susan's offer, with Jonathan seeing it as an added stress on top of his workshop, while Michael sees it as an opportunity for Jonathan to consider a serious future with Susan, inviting Jonathan to join an advertising focus group to earn extra money and potentially get a job with his company. They visit Michael's new Upper East Side apartment, celebrating his financial success and higher quality of life from their old apartment ("No More"). Ira Weitzman, the Musical Theatre Program Director at Playwrights Horizons, asks Jonathan to write a new song for Superbia, as the story needs it. He admits to his 1992 audience that Sondheim told him the same at a musical theater composing workshop some years ago, but he can't come up with anything and he only has a week.
On the cusp of his 30th birthday, Jonathon Larson, a promising young theater composer, navigates love, friendship, and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City.
Released: 2021-11-11
Runtime: 121 minutes
Genre: Drama, Music
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesús, Vanessa Hudgens, Joshua Henry
Director: Brian Grazer, Celia D. Costas, Lydia Marks, Lydia Marks, Kelley Cribben
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