Netflix released a film adaptation, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and starring Andrew Garfield as Jon, in November 2021.īethel’s production of tick, tick… BOOM! is being directed by guest director and Bethel graduate Katie Schmidt, with technical direction by Damon Klassen and musical direction by Henry Waters. After his death in 1996, it was revised and revamped by playwright David Auburn as a three-actor piece, premiering off-Broadway in 2001. Larson began to perform the piece as a solo work in 1990. In tick, tick… BOOM!, Jon’s girlfriend, Susan, wants to get married and move out of the city, his best friend, Michael, is making big bucks on Madison Avenue, and Jon is still waiting tables and trying to write the Great American Musical. The original musical has 14 songs and 10 characters played by three actors – four in the Bethel production – along with a band. It tells the story of an aspiring composer named Jon, who lives in SoHo, New York, in 1990, worried he has made the wrong career choice in the performing arts. However, Larson also wrote tick, tick… BOOM!, which he completed in 1991.

Rent went on to win a Pulitzer Prize and three Tony Awards. Jonathan Larson is best known as the composer of Rent, a rock musical that premiered in 1996 only hours after Larson died suddenly of an aortic aneurysm. The Friday evening (March 24) performance will be interpreted for the d/Deaf community.īefore there was Rent, there was tick, tick… BOOM! The musical contains adult language and themes and is not intended for young audiences. Tickets are $11.50 for adults, $8.50 for seniors and non-Bethel students, and $3.50 for Bethel students. (credit card orders at 31), or online any time at Tickets are on sale at Thresher Shop in Schultz Student Center, weekdays from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday evening's performance will be interpreted for the d/Deaf community. BOOM!” by Jonathan Larson, Friday-Sunday, March 24-26, in Krehbiel Auditorium in Luyken Fine Arts Center.įriday and Saturday performances are at 7:30 p.m. Bethel's music and theater departments present “tick, tick.

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