Tick, Tick … Boom!

The edgy, breakout musical from Jonathan Larson—who went on to compose Rent—Tick, Tick … Boom is a semiautobiographical account of a restaurant server and aspiring musical-theater composer who faces mounting pressures to abandon his passion for a more lucrative career in the corporate world. Larson died six years after its completion, but the musical has enjoyed a posthumous shelf life in both regional theaters and through a film adaptation in 2021.