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== Musical numbers == * "30/90" β Jon, Michael, Susan * "Green Green Dress" β Jon, Susan * "Johnny Can't Decide" β Jon, Susan, Michael * "Sunday" β Jon and Diner Patrons * "No More" β Michael, Jon * "Therapy" β Jon, Susan * "Real Life" β Michael and Company * "Sugar" β Jon, Karessa, Counter Guy * "See Her Smile" β Jon and Company (including a reprise of "Real Life") * "Come to Your Senses" β Karessa * "Why" β Jon * "30/90 (Reprise)" β Jon * "Louder Than Words" β Company '''Notes''' *"No More" features a sample from "Movin' On Up", the theme song of the television series ''[[The Jeffersons]]'' *"Sunday", Jon's song at the diner, is based on the Act I Finale from the [[Stephen Sondheim]] musical ''[[Sunday in the Park with George]]''; Larson conceived it as a humorous homage to Sondheim, one of his biggest influences.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Garcia|first=John|date=January 9, 2003|title=''tick, tick ... BOOM!''|url=http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/dallas/dallas78.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030212191412/http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/dallas/dallas78.html|archive-date=February 12, 2003|website=Talkin' Broadway}}</ref> *In "Johnny Can't Decide", all the characters refer to themselves in the third-person, just like George in the song "Lesson #8" from ''[[Sunday in the Park with George]].'' In the monologue version of the musical, only Jon did this. *Another reference to Sondheim is present in the song "Why". Not only mentioning ''[[West Side Story]]'' in the lyrics, the song utilizes the same tritone made famous in the ''West Side Story'' song "[[Maria (1956 song)|Maria]]". *"Why" contains fragments of several other songs: "Yellow Bird", "[[Let's Go Fly a Kite]]" from the film ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]'', "Cool" and "Tonight β Quintet" both from ''West Side Story'', and "Come to Your Senses" from Larson's ''[[Superbia (musical)|Superbia]]''. *On the cast recording, there is an additional song cut from the final version of the show, "Boho Days". This track is one of the few recordings of Larson's voice publicly available. It was extracted from a demo tape recorded by Larson during the development of ''Tick, Tick... Boom!<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Tick-Tick-Boom/dp/B00138F1UW Tick, Tick...Boom! Cast recording listing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100502014920/http://www.amazon.com/Tick-Tick-Boom/dp/B00138F1UW |date=2010-05-02 }}, amazon.com, accessed December 5, 2008</ref> *On the 1989 demo album of Tick, Tick... Boom!, one of the tracks is "Why," performed by Jonathan Larson himself. In this version, instead of "Come to Your Senses" - which was added after Larson's death - there are excerpts from "LCD Readout" and "Too Cold to Care," both originating from [[Superbia (musical)|Superbia]]. These two songs underwent the most extensive rewrites in Superbiaβs development, which is why Larson chose to feature them in "Why."
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