Jonathan Larson

Jonathan Larson (February 4, 1960 - January 25, 1996) was a composer from New York City who created musicals including Rent and tick, tick...BOOM!.

Production History

Rent started as a staged reading in 1993 at the New York Theatre Workshop, followed by a studio production that played a three-week run a year later. The version now known worldwide opened Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop on January 26, 1996 and opened on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996.

Related Topics:
Rent - Off-Broadway - Broadway

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tick, tick...BOOM! has played off-Broadway at the Charles Street Playhouse.

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Superbia has played at Playwrights Horizons and as a rock concert at the Village Gate.

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J.P. Morgan Saves the Nation was an En Garde Arts Company production.

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Sacrimoralimmorality was Larson's first musical, co-written with David Armstrong, and originally staged at Adelphi University sometime in the 1980s. Retitled Saved, it played an unacclaimed one-week run in a 42nd Street theatre.

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