Here's Jonny!!
I’ve been taking a deep dive into the oeuvre of Jonathan Larson these last several weeks. Most famously, he wrote the musical Rent , but he also wrote tick…tick…BOOM! , of which the movie version just came out on Netflix. Now, there are several connections--I’m going to try to connect the dots clearly so everyone can follow me down the theater kid rabbit hole… To begin with: Jonathan Larson wrote Rent around 1993, and it went through much workshopping before it premiered as a workshop before the public in 1996. Tragically, the day it was to go on, Jonathan died from an undetected aortic aneurysm. He never saw its massive success. It has gone on to win a Tony, a Pulitzer, a GRAMMY, and other prestigious awards. Before he wrote Rent , he wrote tick…tick…BOOM! , around 1990, which is the story of his writing a musical that never came to be, and from the ashes of that, TICK…TICK…BOOM! was born. It’s the story of the choice between remaining faithful to your art and maki
