The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- 2001
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 215
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- —
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 87th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Who was in it3 named
3 of these 3 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters3 roles recorded
Raúl Esparza Jon
Jerry Dixon Michael
Amy Spanger Susan
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Scott Schwartz
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Tick, Tick... Boom! (styled as tick, tick... BOOM!) is a musical by Jonathan Larson. It tells the story of an aspiring composer named Jon, who lives in New York City in 1990. Jon is worried he has made the wrong career choice to be part of the performing arts. 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. Larson began to perform the piece as a solo work in 1990. 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. Since then, the show has had an Off West End product…
- Later, Larson’s struggle to get a musical produced was dramatized in the 2001 musical tick, tick... BOOM! Here we saw Larson (Raul Esparza) as a young composer-lyricist who sometimes feels he’s getting nowhere. Part of his angst comes from turning thirty. Broadway Musicals the Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of Filichia Peter New Yor, p. 221
- Ironic that in tick, tick... BOOM! Larson is shown to be consumed with Stephen Sondheim’s opinions of his work. He especially admires Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George. Broadway Musicals the Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of Filichia Peter New Yor, p. 222
- a superb re-rendering of Jonathan Larson's tick, tick... BOOM! that opened at the Jane Street Theater in June 2001, with Larson’s book effectively reworked by David Auburn, reconfirmed one tragic fact: No one wrote better rock and roll songs for the stage than the deceased composer of Rent had. Ever After the Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond Singer Barry 1957 New Yo, p. 259
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for tick, tick... BOOM! at all.
- When it closed.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.