Soluna Studio to Present TICK…TICK…BOOM!

SoLuna Studio will produce the musical TICK...TICK...BOOM! as a part their professional mainstage season, with performances running February 20th-March 8th. Performances will be held on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets purchased in advance are $15 for students and seniors and $20 for adults. At the door, tickets for students and seniors are $20 each and $25 for adults. Group rates are also available. For more information about the show and tickets, please visit SoLuna Studio's website at www.solunastudiony.com.

TICK...TICK...BOOM!, the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer Prize- and TONY Award-winning composer of RENT , is the story of a composer and the sacrifices he made to achieve his big break in theatre. TICK...TICK...BOOM! takes you on the playwright/composer's journey that led to a Broadway blockbuster. Set in 1990, this compelling story of personal discovery is presented as a rock musical filled with instantly appealing melodies and a unique blend of musical theatre styles.

TICK...TICK...BOOM! was originally produced Off-Off-Broadway in September 1990 at the Second Stage Theatre. Larson performed the show as a "rock monologue," a new form of theatre for the time. The performance attracted the attention of a young producer named Jeffrey Seller, who became a fan of Larson's work. In 1995, he saw the New York Theatre Workshop production of Larson's musical RENT and convinced his fellow producers to bring it to Broadway.

After Larson's death in 1996, producer Victoria Leacock asked David Auburn, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play PROOF, to reconfigure TICK...TICK...BOOM! Auburn restructured the show to feature a larger cast and the script and score were streamlined and edited. This revised version of the piece premiered off-Broadway at the Jane Street Theater on May 23, 2001.