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 | Jonathan Type: lead Age Range: 28 – 32 Gender: male Voice Part: belt
Vocal Range: A 2 – A 4 Dancing: N/A Description A struggling but determined East Village composer. Charming, passionate, and a little self-involved |
| Michael Type: lead Age Range: 25 – 33 Gender: male Voice Part: belt
Vocal Range: B♭ / A# 2 – G 4 Dancing: N/A Description Jonathan's handsome, gay and career-minded best friend. Supportive and caring of Jonathan. |
| Susan Type: lead Age Range: 25 – 33 Gender: female Voice Part: belt
Vocal Range: A♭ / G# 3 – D 5 Dancing: N/A Description Jonathan's sexy and supportive girlfriend. However, she is frustrated with Jonathan's fear of commitment. |
Synopsis:
In tick, tick…BOOM!, Jonathan Larson's struggle to become a successful rock
composer and lyricist comes to life with comedy, song and heartfelt passion.
Larson, of course, was the creator of the hit Broadway musical Rent. His tragic
death of an undiagnosed aortic aneurysm in 1996, three days before the review
performances of Rent at the New York Theatre Workshop and ten days before his
36th birthday, makes this energetic and intensely personal musical all the more
poignant to admirers of his life and work. Originally written and performed as a
dramatic monologue based on his life, Larson conceived of tick, tick…BOOM!
around the same time he was creating Rent. After his untimely death, his
producing partner Victoria Leacock brought David Auburn, author of the Pulitzer
Prize winning play Proof, aboard as script consultant to reconfigure the piece.
He restructured the monologue into a seamless three actor musical. Watching the
current incarnation, it's hard to imagine the piece in its original form because
it works so well as an ensemble piece. As the show opens, Jonathan, Larson's
alter ego, composes music in his tiny, grungy apartment located at the edge of
Soho in 1990. It is a few weeks before his 30th birthday and pressures from his
own ambitions, his girlfriend Susan and his best friend and roommate Michael are
getting to him. Should he sell out his dreams of becoming a composer and join
the corporate rat race on Madison Avenue as Michael has? Should he commit to
Susan and move with her to Cape Cod as she wishes? He's tired of waiting tables
to pay the rent, a job he's done for the past six years, and he hopes that the
musical he's been working on for the past five years, Superbia, which is in
rehearsals and about to be workshopped, will be his big break.
Directed by Shannon Khatcheressian
Music Direction by David Rohde
The production runs August 1-23, 2008.
The Elden Street Players (ESP) is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit, community theater. All roles are volunteer positions and un-paid.
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