Before you rock out to the live version, study up on these facts about the original play. The rock opera’s uplifting message still strikes a chord with audiences everywhere. Martin was his waiting trainee, and would later play the role of Tom Collins.Fox's live performance of Rent, the Broadway musical that ushered in a new age of pop-rock music on the Great White Way, has finally arrived. Martin while working as a waiter after university. Nanette, Larson's mother's name, is also the name of the rabbi's daughter Mark Cohen claims to have learnt to tango with in Tango: Maureen.Officials also concluded that Larson might have been saved if he had been given the proper diagnosis. His death resulted in two hospitals being fined after New York City health officials found them to have been ineffective in their care of Larson. Although Larson sought medical aid twice, he was misdiagnosed the first time as having a viral infection and the second as having food poisoning. Jonathan Larson died at age thirty-five due to aortic dissection, thought to be because of undiagnosed Marfan syndrome. RENT went on to win several awards, with many posthumously going to Larson.
Tragically, Larson died the morning before the musical premiered.
It took roughly three years for RENT to reach its Off-Broadway premier, January 25th, 1996. The autobiographical nature of his writings made Larson want to pursue the play solo, to which Aronson agreed, with the condition he wold have a portion of the profit if the play made it to Broadway. Much of it was inspired by Larson's personal experiences, most notably with his own apartment. The two developed the concept together, with Larson coming up with the title and moving the setting of the play to downtown. Aronson wanted someone to collaborate with and was put in touch with Larson through a mutual contact. It was not actually Larson that came up with the idea to make a musical adaption of La Bohème, but fellow playwright Billy Aronson. He wrote several other plays and musicals before RENT, to varying degrees of success. Larson took inspiration from the rock musicians he liked, such as the Beatles and Elton John, although he also followed composers for musical theater, most notably Stephen Sondheim.Īfter high school, Larson went to Adelphi University, where he was an acting major.
He grew up around music and theater from a young age, playing many musical instruments and sang in his school's choir. His parents were Allen and Nanette Larson. Larson grew up in a Jewish household in New York.
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