Join Fort Myers Theatre for intimate Jonathan Larson musical ‘tick, tick … Boom!’
Fort Myers Theatre is producing Jonathan Larson’s loving ode to Broadway musicals and the artists who create them, tick, tick … Boom! February 9-11. This is the intimate, autobiographical pop/rock show that led to the Lin-Manuel Miranda-directed 2021 film adaptation for Netflix.
Tick, tick … Boom! tells the story of Jon, a struggling composer whose life seems to be going nowhere. About to turn 30 and still waiting tables for a living, the prospect that he may never “make it” on Broadway renders him despondent. The pressure to break out or give up only grows as Jon’s girlfriend, Susan, announces that she wants to get married and move out of the city, and his best friend, Michael, quits acting and finds huge financial success as a Madison Avenue corporate executive. Jon’s new futuristic dystopian musical Superbia has a great workshop but no prospects, and as time ticks by Jon wonders if maybe his friends are right, and it’s time to throw in the towel.
The musical becomes all the more poignant and prescient when you remember that Jonathan Larson died at the age of 35, the night before Rent’s Off Broadway opening night.
Given the short run and limited seating, don’t sleep on getting tickets for this show.
Go here for play dates, times and ticket prices.
February 2, 2024.
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.