Tick, Tick... Boom!

Roger’s friend Scott tells his playwright friend Jonathan Larson, "The drugs there are always the best." (0:15)

Television reporter: "North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms is worried the legislation was sending the wrong message."
Helms: ”Let me say that if IV drug users and homosexual men would stop their activites today, there would never be another case of AIDS in this country...” (0:34)

Jonathan: "That was a Ghostbusters reference." (0:41)

Jonathan: "Thank you for your patience." (0:41)

Jonathan: "I went to three friends’ funerals last year." (0:49)

Jonathan tells his girlfriend Susan Wilson, "I’ve been distracted..." (0:59)

Focus group leader Judy Wright: "There are some side effects associated with the product..." (1:05)

Jonathan tells his advertising executive friend Michael, "Tell them I had a stroke." (1:06)

Michael tells Jonathan, "What a nightmare." (1:17)

His agent Rosa Stevens asks Johnathan, "You nervous? Don’t be nervous."
Jonathan: ”Yeah, a little nervous.”
Rosa: ”Of course you’re nervous.” (1:18)

Jonathan, on stage: "We smoked a bowl on the Kennedy breakwater, and Michael told me that he was gay... I think of their funerals..." (1:31)

Jonathan tells Michael, "There’s a support group." (1:39)

Susan, referring to Jonathan Larson: "The night before Rent’s first public performance, he died from a sudden aortic aneurysm." (1:45)