“These Greek myths are told in this fresh, subversive, funny, scary way of teens taking agency of their lives as they start to instill the changes they want to see in the world.”įor each character’s mindset and personality, Rokicki assigned a different sound, like an electric guitar for Percy’s explosions of painful emotion, embodied by power chords. “The tone is what I think fans responded to,” he adds, regarding the show’s success. “I think YA is so perfect for tapping into that inner angst you have when you’re trying to get someone to notice your work. “I just threw everything at it and had a blast,” Rokicki says of the songwriting process. READ: Secrets From Broadway’s The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical Now his musical-about demi-god Percy Jackson, who battles both mythological monsters and teenage angst as he and his friends try to rescue Zeus’ stolen thunderbolt-is up on the stage at the same theatre eight times a week. The trajectory is a particularly sweet one for Rokicki, who once worked as a bartender at the Longacre. The eventual outcome was The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, which premiered as an hour-long show in 2014 before expanding into a fully-fledged Off-Broadway musical in 2017, a successful national tour in 2019, and now a Broadway run at the Longacre Theatre, directed by Stephen Brackett. And so, alongside book writer Joe Tracz, Rokicki threw his full attention to writing. After years of bad breaks as an actor, Rokicki wasn’t sure whether he could take another rejection. When it was first suggested to Rob Rokicki that he adapt The Lightning Thief into a musical, the songwriter-performer was at a crossroads.
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