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Rather than a series of realistic, minutely detailed locales, scenic designer Matt Scarpino’s simple but effective set takes us inside Jon’s head as he reflects on his past, present, and future. Lewis completes the cast to powerful, touching effect as Jon’s bestie-for-life, is every bit his costars’ vocal equal, and gets to amuse in brief gems as Jon’s father and as a character previously played by Lawrence.Īnthony Zediker earns high marks as music director while leading a rock-concert-ready onstage band: Cody Cadena on guitar, Khris Kempis on bass, Nicole Marcus on percussion, and Zediker himself on piano. Lawrence captivates as Susan, sparkles as Superbia star Karessa, whose power-belted “Come To Your Senses” brings down the house, and delivers a delicious pair of cameos as Jon’s chain-smoking agent Rosa and his worried mom.

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Hayter elicits a particularly rich star turn from Figueroa, instantly likable in a role I’ve rarely heard sung with such powerful, rock-meets-legit pipes, most particularly in a deeply felt, heart-wrenching “Why.” (That Figueroa can strum the guitar and tickle the ivories like a pro is icing on the cake.) (“They’re not unlike rice cakes, only cylindrical and injected with cream.”)Īnd these are only three of the autobiographical gems that get performed on the ICT stage by a gifted young cast under the once again inspired direction of Kari Hayter, fresh off glowing reviews for La Mirada Theatre’s the big-stage, big-cast Grease but in a far more intimate mode this time round, “Johnny Can’t Decide” has Jon, Michael, and Susan harmonizing about their inability to take concrete steps forward in their lives, “Therapy” gives an at-odds Jon and Susan the chance to air their long-simmering differences, and “Sugar” is Jon’s ode to his favorite Hostess treat. Unfolding as a series of vignettes, tick, tick…BOOM! features over a dozen songs in which the composer-lyricist’s signature sound rings forth loud and clear. Tick, tick…BOOM! follows Jon as he prepares for the Superbia workshop, flirts and quarrels with Susan, learns that Michael has worries far exceeding his own … and eventually finds the strength to persevere. Lawrence) is thinking about giving up her Manhattan job teaching ballet to “wealthy and untalented children” and moving out of the city. Lewis), a successful business executive with a fancy sports car and more brand name outfits than he could possibly count. With his 20s-ending birthday fast approaching, Jon can’t help comparing his still unsuccessful life with that of his childhood bff Michael (Phillip J. 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. : Just a dot, a tiny dot of light in the sky, which means you're farther away.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.Just a dot, a tiny dot of light in the sky, which means you're farther away. I told myself I'd miss things, but it's much harder than I ever imagined. : If I really do have this power, who am I?.And if I am to survive this, I need to be home again, with you.

You told me about cardinal north and true north. But getting lost can happen even when you know where you are. You once told me you were the most scared when you were lost. If I really do have this power, who am I? I would be everything we mocked and dismissed. Or perhaps they know I'm a fraud, an imposter. Like I'm the miracle the world has been waiting for.

Yet now, everyone is looking at me like I'm the answer. If Saints were once real, they've long since left us. The world is hard and cruel, but we had each other, and that was enough. We knew that no stranger ever solved our problems for us. We grew up reading about a Saint who would one day perform a miracle of light and solve our country's problems, and we knew that was a lie. What I haven't said in this letter, Mal, what I've been trying to write among all these scattered words is, is that I'm afraid.