![]() ![]() It is the sound of one man’s mounting anxiety. “The sound you are hearing is not a technical problem,” Jon (Ernesto Figueroa) tells us as he sits in front of his keyboard, the tick tick ticking of a clock echoing in the background. Rather than throw in the towel, however, Jon put his feelings about turning 30 without any notable career success into the one-man show that serves as the basis for tick, tick … BOOM!, adapted as a three-performer musical by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn five years after Larson’s untimely death. ![]() The year is 1990, and a then 29-going-on-30 Jon was the quintessential starving artist, having devoted seven long years to writing Superbia, an ambitious musical that ended up going nowhere to the composer-playwright’s soul-crushing chagrin. International City Theatre opens its 2023 season with a powerhouse, terrifically performed tick, tick… BOOM!, a musical glimpse into Jonathan Larson’s creative and personal life before Rent (and his premature demise at the age of 35) made him a Broadway legend. ![]()
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