Tick, tick... BOOM! (theatre)/YMMV

These things about  are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.


 * Harsher in Hindsight:
 * Jon mentions that he hears a constant tick in his head, the sense of living on borrowed time. This comes verbatim from the original script. Jonathan Larson in 1995 would suffer a massive aortic rupture, and it was revealed he had Marfan's Syndrome. Welp...
 * Both Michael and John assume that.
 * Heartwarming in Hindsight: Michael reveals to Jon that
 * Retroactive Recognition: Roger Bart, who would later win a Tony for playing Snoopy in You're A Good Man Charlie Brown and play Carmen Gia in The Producers, served as Jon's number two during the original Tick Tick boom monologue.
 * Values Dissonance: Jon maintains that getting a corporate job would be selling out, even for something that suits his passion like writing jingles. Michael convinces him not to give up his composing dreams when admitting that sometimes his job feels meaningless in the face of missing art. You can also see this attitude in Rent. The 2021 movie updates this so that Michael is completely in the right to yell at Jon for the privilege that he flaunts around while acting like a gay Hispanic man has access to the same opportunities. Later, when he encourages Jon to not give up, it's because.