Discouraged, Jonathan runs to Michael begging for a corporate job and perceived stability, but Michael changes his mind after seeing the workshop, encouraging Jonathan to continue in musical theater. Rosa tells him he must keep writing, hoping that something will succeed, but he will likely face more rejection. He receives praise but no offers to produce Superbia. Karessa brings down the house with the new song, "Come to Your Senses", and Jonathan imagines Susan singing it.
At the workshop are friends, family, and industry professionals, including Sondheim. Heading to a swimming pool to cool off, he pictures sheet music lines on the pool floor and finally comes up with the new song, which he writes out by hand ("Swimming"). After finally getting an encouraging call from Rosa about his industry invites, he plans to write the new song the night before the workshop, but his power gets cut off before starting. Michael criticizes him for being in a financially unstable theater career, while Jonathan claims with his impending 30th birthday that he is getting too old to be successful. Making a good first impression, he considers a corporate future, but realizes he would hate it and deliberately sabotages it.
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To get money to hire a full band for the workshop, Jonathan attends the advertising focus group. Susan, frustrated by Jonathan's indecisiveness, breaks up with him ("Therapy"). He walks down Broadway to Playwrights Horizons for the start of rehearsals for Superbia ("Play Game"). Carolyn tells him Freddy, who is HIV-positive, has been hospitalized, adding to Jonathan's anxieties as many of his friends have already died in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The next day he imagines the Diner full with Broadway stars ("Sunday").
Susan also pressures him again to move with her, although he feels his career is just starting in New York ("Johnny Can't Decide"). He watches PBS's Sunday in the Park with George with Michael and Susan, and afterwards Michael asks him to join an advertising focus group to earn extra money.
Jonathan tries to get his agent, Rosa Stevens, to invite Sondheim to the workshop, but eventually just cold-calls Sondheim and others. This troubles him, as his idol, Stephen Sondheim, told him the same at the ASCAP Workshop some years ago, but he can't come up with anything and he only has a week. Ira Weitzman, the Musical Theatre Program Director at Playwrights Horizons, asks Jonathan to write a new song for Superbia, as the story needs it. Jonathan visits Michael at his new Upper East Side apartment, celebrating his financial success and higher quality of life from their old apartment ("No More"). While alone later, Susan tells Jonathan about a teaching job at Jacob's Pillow and asks him to come too ("Green Green Dress"). He has a party at home with friends, including his former roommate Michael, who left acting for advertising, his girlfriend Susan, a dancer-turned-teacher, and fellow waiters Freddy and Carolyn ("Boho Days"). In 1990, Jonathan juggles work at the Moondance Diner in SoHo with preparing for a workshop at Playwrights Horizons of his musical Superbia, which he has been working on for eight years. He describes an incessant ticking noise he hears in his head, and begins telling about the week leading up to his 30th birthday and his desire to become a successful musical theater composer ("30/90"). Boom! in front of an audience at New York Theatre Workshop, accompanied by friends Roger and Karessa Johnson. In 1992, Jonathan Larson performs his rock monologue Tick, Tick.
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