The first staged reading of the show took place in 1993, and the first staged production at the New York Theatre Workshop in 1996. Larson began writing another musical called Rent in 1990. But no one wanted to produce the play and in his disappointment that followed, he wrote Tick, Tick.Boom!, which he finished in 1991, and performed as a solo act at the Village Gate, the Second Stage Theater, and at the New York Theatre Workshop through 1993. As it does in the film, Larson’s musical Superbia did preview at Playwrights Horizons under the direction of Ira Weitzman in 1990. Jonathan Larson, who grew up in White Plains, NY, moved to Manhattan to pursue his theater dreams and really did work on Soho’s Moondance Diner-famously featured in 2002’s Spider Man, Friends, Sex and the City, and now Tick, Tick.Boom!.
As he wrestles with conflict in his love life and confronts his best friend’s AIDS diagnosis, Larson is working against the clock ticking in his mind to stage his musical Superbia.
He's waiting for his career in the arts to take off while working at the Moondance Diner in Soho to make ends meet. The movie, already in theaters and now on Netflix, follows playwright Jonathan Larson (played by Andrew Garfield) in the months leading up to his 30th birthday in 1990. Beneath the Surface of Bruce Springsteen.
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