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t i c k , t i c k … B O O M ! | P E R S P E C T I V E 3 1 tick, tick…BOOM! tells the autobiographical story of Jonathan Larson, an aspiring musical theatre composer and lyricist on the precipice of his thirtieth birthday, as he struggles to finish his sevenyearsinthemaking scifi rock opera, Superbia, which is having its ooo roadway debut in the form of a Playwrights' Horizons read-through in one week's time. The year is and ew ork is a city in ux. The seeds of gentrification have been planted but have not yet sprouted. The AIDS epidemic is devastating communities. At the center of it all is roadway, an institution in desperate need of a fresh perspective. Splitting his days between writing away in the living room of the decrepit Greenwich Street apartment he shares with a roommate, and waiting tables at lower Manhattan's Moondance iner, Jonathan, whose confidence in his craft is often mistaken as arrogance, lives in paralyzing fear that if Superbia fails to pan out as his big break, he will age out of being recognized as the wunderkind he has always been certain he is destined to be. What he doesn't know yet is that although Superbia will be a failure, he will go on to create a very dierent kind of rock opera. adly, what he will never know is that work will leave a mark on the A. DUARTE SQUARE WITH THE MOONDANCE DINER. CONCEPT ILLUSTRATION BY ALI KASHFI FEATURING MURAL BY STEFANO CASTRONOVO.