Tick, Tick...boom! 2021 - 115 Min Dramma Вђў ... -

: Jon’s idol and mentor whose encouragement serves as a pivotal moment of validation.

: A dancer who represents a different path to fulfillment, ultimately breaking up with Jon to pursue a teaching career. tick, tick...BOOM! 2021 - 115 min Dramma • ...

: An ambitious, often self-absorbed waiter at the Moondance Diner who is determined to revolutionize musical theater. : Jon’s idol and mentor whose encouragement serves

: Set at the height of the epidemic, the film highlights how the crisis ravaged the artistic community, adding a literal sense of mortality to Jon's figurative "ticking clock". This is personalized through his friend Michael’s HIV-positive diagnosis. : Set at the height of the epidemic,

The film functions as a "musical within a musical," alternating between Jon’s 1992 stage performance of the rock monologue tick, tick... BOOM! and the literal events of 1990 that inspired it.

: Jon is haunted by a self-imposed deadline—to finish and produce his sci-fi musical, Superbia , before turning 30, fearing that failing to do so means his dreams are over.

: Jon's childhood best friend who provides a critical perspective on Jon's privilege and the reality of life as a gay man during the AIDS crisis.