‘tick, tick…BOOM!’ Producer Julie Oh on the Musical’s Power

In 2014, Julie Oh—then a rising studio exec—settled into her seat at the New York City Center for a performance of tick, tick…Boom! It was one of five that June, all starring a post-In the Heights, pre-Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda. tick, tick…Boom! was Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical musical, initially written as a one-man rock monologue. He’d staged it off-off-Broadway in the fall of 1990, six years before his musical Rent would make him famous—a fame he’d never know. Larson passed away unexpectedly the morning before his seminal work began previews off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop. Since its debut, tick, tick…Boom! had… Read Full Article