![]() It is the sound of one man’s mounting anxiety. ![]() (The title refers to his crippling anxiety, with the show opening to the sound of a ticking clock and Jon saying: “The sound you are hearing is not a technical problem. Larson described the work as a “musical monologue,” and it followed his character - a composer named Jon who lives in a SoHo walkup and works at the Moondance Diner (as Larson had) - as he grappled with the challenges of creating art for a mostly inhospitable commerical-theater industry. Larson suffered from a sudden aortic aneurysm when he was 35 years old. He died before its first public performance. However, Jonathan never got to see the success of Rent. (The space has since become the ballroom of a boutique hotel.) That production was in turn based on an autobiographical solo musical that Larson had written (and occasionally performed) before Rent. Larson wrote Rent, which ran on Broadway for 12 years and became one of the longest-running shows in Broadway history. The film is based on the three-character show of the same name, originally mounted in June 2001 at the 280-seat Jane Street Theatre in the West Village. 19 on Netflix, it will be the first time that Hollywood has tackled the life of the brilliant composer, whose sudden death on the day of Rent‘s first off-Broadway preview remains, 25 years later, one of theater’s most tragic and poignant legends. ![]() ![]() When Tick, Tick … Boom! - Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature directorial debut that stars Andrew Garfield as Rent creator Jonathan Larson - premieres Nov. On January 24, 1996, Rent had its final dress rehearsal at the New York Theatre Workshop, an Off-Broadway venue. ![]()
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