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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest is a star of stage and screen

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Speaker 2: whose rolling pack to the rafters made him a household name.

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Speaker 2: He returns to the stage after a break to bring

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Speaker 2: us the musical Tick Tick Boom. This is the story

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Speaker 2: of a struggling songwriter, a real story of a man

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Speaker 2: trying to make his dreams a reality. Hugh Sheridan is

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Speaker 2: playing this man and he joins us. Now, hello, Hugh, Hello,

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Speaker 2: how are you very well? So this sounds amazing. So

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Speaker 2: this is written by Jonathan Larson, who wrote the musical Rent.

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Speaker 2: He's passed away, he's no longer with us, but this

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Speaker 2: is his story of struggling to break through.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's his actual sort of precursor to writing Rent.

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Speaker 1: And he was going through a period in this life

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Speaker 1: where everyone was telling him to give up. Really they

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Speaker 1: were just and he wasn't getting anywhere. And obviously breaking

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Speaker 1: into writing musicals, especially I think probably in New York

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Speaker 1: in the eighties and nineties would have been very difficult

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Speaker 1: when the focus was more on Andeloid were a kind

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Speaker 1: of musicals, you know, Jesus Christ Superstar and Cats and

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Speaker 1: all of those shows, Starlart Express, they were all the

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Speaker 1: really big shows back then, and what he was writing

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Speaker 1: was essentially what became nineties pop music, which we hear

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Speaker 1: in Rent. And so his music was very different. And

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Speaker 1: everyone was getting him to quit, and he was trying

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Speaker 1: to decide whether to quit or not, and he felt

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Speaker 1: like there was this impending ticking going on in his head,

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Speaker 1: like there was a clock, which is why the show

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Speaker 1: is called dicktick Boom. And this is all a true story.

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Speaker 1: And then he wrote this beautiful piece about his struggles

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Speaker 1: and about his friends and started writing about what he knew,

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Speaker 1: which was his life. And he decides to go on

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Speaker 1: and he's totally broke by the way it works in

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Speaker 1: a diner, can't afford medical insurance or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: So he had had the heart problems and didn't go

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Speaker 1: to the doctor, and then he wrote Rent, and just

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Speaker 1: before it opened, just before the first preview, he had

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Speaker 1: a heart attack and he died at thirty five and

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Speaker 1: went on to win the Politzer Prize and all the

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Speaker 1: Tonys and everything that he was.

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Speaker 3: I never got to know it, that's absactly. I never

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Speaker 3: knew that. It's like Scott Joplin, the great piano player,

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Speaker 3: wrote the Black and White Rag. He died an unknown

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Speaker 3: and then someone years later goes through his a piano

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Speaker 3: stool and finds all this music and said, this guy

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Speaker 3: was a genius.

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Speaker 2: He wrote this as he was living this story. Then

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Speaker 2: for the Tic Tick Boom.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he wrote it while he was sort of living it.

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Speaker 1: And he never got to see hit deeper him either.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of people look at the story and

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Speaker 1: sort of think that from a distance it could be

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Speaker 1: quite tragic. But I think when you come and see

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Speaker 1: the show, and certainly what I love about playing the

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Speaker 1: role is that he's really happy. And he says that

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Speaker 1: he decides that he would father be pursuing what he

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Speaker 1: loves and be Paul I live like a bohemian and

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Speaker 1: then go and take a market research job and make

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Speaker 1: all this money and have a BMW and he decides

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Speaker 1: to prefer to work at the diner. Story quite beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Now, people who only know you from pack to the

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Speaker 2: rafters may not be aware of your musical chops. You

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Speaker 2: you are a beautiful.

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Speaker 3: You've got chops.

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Speaker 1: You've got chops. I've got chops chops yet No. I

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Speaker 1: My father was a singer, and I started as a

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Speaker 1: singer and sat down to the poman Tonia and so yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's nice to put the Australian Ballet School and vocal

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Speaker 1: training from VCA and that sort of thing together and

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Speaker 1: be back on the main stage and a beautiful musical.

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Speaker 1: It's such a beautiful stories.

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Speaker 2: And Shane Jacobson is the producer.

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Speaker 1: I know how funny is that he's not trying to

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Speaker 1: get himself.

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Speaker 3: In Yeah, I reckon Jaco put himself in there because

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Speaker 3: he's everywhere.

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Speaker 1: He's my understanding as well A beautiful for it.

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Speaker 3: I tell you what, do not walk. Do not take

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Speaker 3: any food from that man or anything, because all of

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Speaker 3: a sudden you feel you get a runny bottom and

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Speaker 3: Jacob will say, Oh, don't worry, I'll do it.

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Speaker 1: I'll do it.

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Speaker 3: Don't walk behind his car. You like when Amanda had

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Speaker 3: a hip. When Amanda had a hip surgery is ringing

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Speaker 3: me gain mate. I could easily come in and do

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Speaker 3: Amanda easily.

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Speaker 1: A manad he remember the movie all about It?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I do.

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Speaker 1: I could see him in the in the corner of

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Speaker 1: the he's glowing. He'll be like fandom of everywhere.

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Speaker 3: He's just ready to go.

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Speaker 2: Well, this sounds incredible.

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Speaker 3: It's always good to talk to you. Tic Tic Boom

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Speaker 3: is playing at the Sydney Lyric Theater. Now head to

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Speaker 3: Sydney Lyric dot com dot are you for more deeds.

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Speaker 3: Hugh Sheridan, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I just love you too,