Editing Tick, Tick... Boom! (section)

==History==
The show was first performed as a workshop between September 6 and September 9, 1990 by [[Jonathan Larson]] at the [[Off-Broadway]] playhouse [[Second Stage Theater]] under the title ''Boho Days''. Larson revised the developing piece following the Second Stage workshop, changing the title to ''Tick, Tick... Boom!'', and presented with him as performer in November 1991 at the [[Village Gate]] (produced by Larson's college friend Victoria Leacock), and then later in 1992 and 1993 in the "O Solo Mio" fests at [[New York Theatre Workshop]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Jones|first=Kenneth|date=11 September 2016|title=''tick, tick...BOOM!'' Cast Album Released Sept. 11|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/tick-tickboom-cast-album-released-sept-11-com-98538|url-status=live|access-date=18 November 2016|work=Playbill|archive-date=19 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119120036/http://www.playbill.com/article/tick-tickboom-cast-album-released-sept-11-com-98538}}</ref> Larson performed the show as a "rock monologue", a new form of theatre at 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 (musical)|Rent]]'' and convinced his fellow producers to bring it to [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]].

After Larson's death in 1996, Leacock asked [[David Auburn]], author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play ''[[Proof (play)|Proof]]'', to reconfigure ''Tick, Tick... Boom!''. He restructured the monologue into a three-actor musical,<ref>{{cite web|last=Horng|first=Susanna|date=17 August 2001|title=Tick, tick...BOOM! – Jonathan Larson|url=http://www.culturevulture.net/theater/TickTick.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061116022627/http://culturevulture.net/Theater/TickTick.htm|archive-date=16 November 2006|access-date=18 November 2014|work=CultureVulture}}</ref> with one actor playing Jon and the other two actors playing Michael and Susan, as well as all the other roles in the show.  The script and score were streamlined and edited. This revised version of the piece premiered [[Off-Broadway]] at the [[The Jane#Jane Street Theatre|Jane Street Theater]] on May 23, 2001. Auburn received credit as "Script Consultant".<ref name=":0" />