US EditionReview: ‘Jonathan Larson Project’ is an off-Broadway chance to hear lost songs of the ‘Rent’ composer
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Review: ‘Jonathan Larson Project’ is an off-Broadway chance to hear lost songs of the ‘Rent’ composer
NEW YORK — Jonathan Larson, the cheerily boyish composer of the musical “Rent,” died in 1996 at the age of 35. “The Jonathan Larson Project,” the new off-Broadway collection of his unheard songs, is a bit like opening a time capsule. Larson never got to grow old and write the kind of songs people write as they confront middle age and beyond, likely turning cynical in the face of failure. He is forever young, forever hopeful, forever pushing forw…
Taylor Iman Jones Illuminates the Depth of Jonathan Larson’s Legacy in New Theatrical Project
For its off-Broadway debut, “The Jonathan Larson Project” went back to its roots: the East Village. The new musical has officially opened at the Orpheum Theatre in New York, just a few blocks north of where Larson first staged his career-defining musical “Rent.” Although Larson died suddenly at the age of 35, on the eve of the show’s first off-Broadway performance, the writer left behind a cannon of creative output. Some of that lesser-known wo…
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