In the early 1990s, struggling New York theater composer Jonathan Larson wrote and performed “tick, tick … BOOM!,” an anxiety-riddled rock monologue inspired by his failure to achieve artistic success ...
When Actors’ Playhouse opens the curtain on its production of “tick, tick…Boom!” there are many behind-the-scenes stories about close degrees of separation. The musical by Jonathan Larson, famously ...
CONCORD — When it comes to the subject of gone-too-soon composers, the game of what-if? can be a melancholy exercise. But it’s a hard one to resist. As in: What if Mozart had not died at 35? Or ...
No one would know “THX 1138” today if George Lucas hadn’t later made Star Wars. The same is probably true for “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” the semi-autobiographical “rock monologue” that composer Jonathan ...
One of Chance Theater’s go-to strengths in presenting overachieving productions comes from poking around the nooks and crannies of the theater canon to engage audiences with off-the-beaten path fare.
NEW YORK — A few minutes after zipping through the patter song “Therapy” in a Times Square rehearsal studio, the cast members of “Tick, Tick … Boom!” have plopped down in a line of chairs opposite ...