So after three years of editing and collaborating and polishing the musical for release, it was ready to debut, and would go on to become a worldwide sensation. Rent had humble beginnings and started as a stage reading at the New York Theatre Workshop, but it grew and grew and had the potential to be a big stage performance. The rock musical is loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boheme and tells the story of impoverished artists living in lower Manhattan who are struggling to survive and build a life with the HIV/AIDS crisis in the background. Tick, Tick.Boom! is a creative, thought-provoking work, but Rent is the true crown jewel in the Larson catalog. Though Tick, Tick.Boom! was originally intended as a solo piece it was later adapted into a stage performance. It touched on his feelings of rejection and disappointment following the not-so-great success of Superbia, getting older, stressing over achieving his dreams and goals, and navigating the life of a starving artist in NYC. Though he didn't get to put out as much work as he may have hoped to, Larson's creations always had an autobiographical element to them, especially Tick, Tick.Boom! which was essentially just a rock monologue for Larson to perform solo with a piano and backing band.
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