![]() ![]() BOOM! is that we are inside Jonathan Larson's mind. "Most people’s exposure to Jonathan Larson is Rent," says Shannon McCarthy, who is directing the Vintage Theatre production. Though the show failed to convince any investors to fund future productions during Larson's life, his work did garner interest from aspiring producer Jeffrey Seller, who continued to follow his work and was instrumental in convincing other producers to invest in Rent after the show's 1996 New York Theatre Workshop production. ![]() The semi-autobiographical work explores what life was like for a struggling artist in Soho during the 1990s while working to achieve his dream. The production follows musical theater composer Jon as he approaches his thirtieth birthday and questions whether to give up his art for more stability. BOOM! and performed it as a solo work multiple times around New York from 1991 to 1993. Following further development, he renamed the piece tick, tick. BOOM! at Vintage Theatre's opening on Friday, March 17.īefore it was a fully produced musical, the show was a one-man rock monologue called 30/90 before being changed to Boho Days, which Larson presented in two workshop readings in 1990 at Second Stage Theater, an off-Broadway playhouse. Coloradans can check out a dynamic staging of Larson's tick, tick. And although the composer, lyricist and playwright passed away before the musical's opening, the show led to a renewed interest in his earlier work. ![]() Jonathan Larson's hit rock musical Rent took the world by storm in 1996. ![]()
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