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How To Save Superbia
When you hear a musical about social media, about twenty years before social media became a new addition to our lives, you sit up straight. Jonathan Larson wrote that musical and spent eight years trying to sell it to show producers, as well as Broadway. He called it Superbia, a love letter to the novel 1984, to express fear about how we would let computers run our lives.
The way that the movie Tick Tick Boom film portrays Superbia, Jon was an artist ahead of his time, hampered by the technological demands and putting a science-fiction musical on Broadway. The truth was a little different, as the YouTuber Waiting in the Wings kindly described. Yet I believe that with some editing, a lot of love, and a dedication to the story, you can bring the musical to life.
What Was The Basic Story Of Superbia?
That’s…actually the rub. Larson wrote and rewrote Superbia so many times that it was hard to pin down a basic story. There were two major versions that he premiered; one that was optimistic about the fate of humanity, and the other that had a massive downer ending. My vote would be for version one, for it to be premiered. I’m always for hopeful stories because ones with…
