Why - TICK, TICK... BOOM!

[otherlyn]

My favorite song from the show! In my opinion, Stephen Grey nails the sentiment, reminiscing about a couple of past events in Jon's life, with best his friend, Michael; events that relate to this moment of deciding into which direction Jon's life will now lead. Although he knows Michael's destiny has taken a final turn that will take him out of his life, Jon has an epiphany. Stephen expresses the bittersweet joy of the moment. Jon decides that his own destiny leads him to stay with his music.

[funkymonkey11179]

my favorite song <3 Makes me cry every time I listen to it. This is wonderful :)

[Wayannik]

great singer

as a performer he could work on his energy and a bit on the movements

[Rogue9a]

Great Video, I'm sure Jonathan Larson would have loved the performance. RIP Jonathan

[kevinlilysarah]

this song is sad :(

[samplemike]

this song is so true

[colleen3456]

beautiful.

[fulminousalt]

This song is amazing. I'm not very familiar with Larson's work- I've only heard RENT- but from what I've seen from these videos you've put up, if Tick, Tick... Boom! is anything to go by the man is definitely up there with Sondheim on the 'amazing musical composers' list. Your rendition of this does it justice- it's thoroughly realised and just, lovely, in terms of acting- and it's wonderful as a vocal performance. Thank you so much for putting this up :).

[adrian102689]

man this has me PSYCHED[spellcheck]

we're doing it at our school and i got JON XD

so id love to do this song

[wylloughbye]

You are very talented! and I'm loving these vids, as this is one of my favorite shows. My only beef with the performance is the extreme diction. Sometimes, you don;t have to always hit that hard "T". :-)Slightly reminds me of a production I saw of footloose directed by a teacher who corrected all of the grammar. Took away the easy feel.

[joyfulnumber3]

:) You are incredibly gifted. This is so beautiful. I love you much, dear one.

[rickheaton]

Great performance!! Clearly some of comments you're received reflect those who aren't as experienced in performing live music... Tempo is rarely a concrete constant, especially for solos when the accompanist follows the vocalists adaptation. Great work man, keep it up!

[scrantonparty]

the tempo is a little fast but an all around good job

[jiffiequeen]

itsa bit too fast in places. but good job, love this song :)

[buckets28]

i wish you had posted the introductory monologue for this song. it's unbelievable, and i would have loved to see his interpretation of it..

[lgfrommk2931]

Oh, I know. I would love to see that.

[m3rr13z0r]

The fact that he resembles Jonathan Larson so much would make this very moving even if his acting and singing WEREN'T amazing.

Which they are. It's a very lovely interpretation, thank you for sharing this.

[thegaythespian]

My one beef w/ this is that the story goes that he is playing on the rehearsal piano in the park. I love your voice, and acting, but this is so effective when Jon plays the whole thing on the piano.

[OjosNativo]

Love the performance! intriguing voice, love it love it

[FOSSEMOVES]

As a working director I can tell you, you're truly gifted. It's a solid performance and interpretation. I love how you don't over do it. You let the music do the work. thats a sign o f a secure and strong actor.

[Broadwaypopulair]

Don't listen to the people below... You have a beautiful voice, and your supposed to smile when your thinking back on "happy momments". I thought you did a wonderful job acting this out. Kudos to you!

[showtunesfever92]

Talk about a delayed applause. Haha.

But I love your voice Stephen

[Ho1ySmokes]

Sounds fine, but I am afraid that the situation is missed. Coming into this song Jon has just learned that Michael is HIV+ and he is singing this a broken down piano in the park, why all the smiles? Looses the sentimentality of what should be an emotional stirring piece.

[Snartwork]

Don't you smile when you reminisce?

[reeciboy]

ye i agree i performed this for a show and did the same... not as quickly though lol

[hectorerasure]

I think he's smiling because he's remembering their friendship thoughout the years and all the things they'd done together.

[thegaythespian]

exactly.

[TheDoughcrayon]

@Ho1ySmokes It's something called playing the opposites so you don't seem like a whiny pansy. Maybe you'd go farther and have more friends if you were a bit more positive :)

[bluejay72789]

@Ho1ySmokes it could also be written as a stage note. or it could also have been the actor asking the director saying something like "is it all right if i smile here because it just seems too depressing" or something like that

[xxfortneyface]

great voice =]

[kidxviciousx187]

Oh my god. This is really really good.

[mixeddxtapee]

jonathan larson.

was truly amazing.

[irockharderthanyou]

i would love to do this song for competition but i just dont have the voice at all... this is high 1st tenor and im 2nd so just too high... but he did it AMAZINGLY! a bit fast though...

[bansaiman]

Nice and charming acted. Some details in singing. But over all nice :)

[nessman930]

great job on this song! See it is possible for me to leave good comments. I especially loved the liberties he took on the last im gonna spend. Faster than on the cd but he really made it his own. Only thing was that the lyrics that were said instead of sung at the end were just a tid bit cheezy. But other than that great job.

[AngelOfMusic144]

a little faster than i'm comfortable with, and i wish he would've sung more. it's a beautiful and difficult song, so all things considered this version wasn't bad--a little pitchy in spots, but not bad.

[BS1der]

Awesome! Really beautiful

[kooymans]

wow...that was amazing.

i love your voice!

[threestarzrx7]

I performed this in January 07' at the Florida District III Thespian Festival. I got an Excellent rating for the performance. It definitely is a difficult peice to perform. I'd like to say that I really absolutely love the way it was done, minus the spoken part at the end, but particularly how you managed to squeeze it in under five minutes and lost nothing.

[reeciboy]

doin this song for grade 8 singing soon. hope i can do it as well as you can m8.

oh and i love it lol

[IJuggleGeese]

This production is so well done! The cast is amazing. This is my favorite song from the play.

Do you have this productions version of "Johnny Can't Decide"?

[mistershinobi]

who is the one uploading this? somebody from the cast, the band, the director, a friend, or who?

[dopineapple]

its a good job. i like some of the the things he did., but i'm not too fond of all the spoken parts

[gdazed]

this song is really hard to perform...i think he did a great job!

[vans1744]

pretty good

[SgtSplatter782]

Awesome. That song is not easy to sing and I loved Stephen's take on the song. Very well done.