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Jonathan Larson Biography

Jonathan Larson is one of the most popular and richest Playwright who was born on February 4, 1960 in White Plains, New York, United States. He was awarded three Tony Awards for Best Musical as well as Best Book as well as Best Score, posthumously in his production of Rent. The critically acclaimed musical won the actor an honorary Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

He had a wide range of musical influences such as The bands The Beatles The Doors and The Doors and the famous entertainer He had several musical influences including the bands The Beatles and The Doors as well as legendary performer Billy Joel..

Jonathan David Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer and playwright noted for exploring the social issues of multiculturalism, addiction, and homophobia in his work. Typical examples of his use of these themes are found in his works Rent and Tick, Tick… Boom! He received three posthumous Tony Awards and a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the rock musical Rent.

Larson graduated from White Plains Senior High School in 1978. There, he was active in dramatic and musical productions. He attended Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, with a four-year scholarship as an acting major, in addition to performing in numerous plays and musical theatre. During his college years, he began music composition, composing music first for small student productions, called cabarets, and later the score to a musical entitled Libro de Buen Amor, written by the department head, Jacques Burdick. Burdick functioned as Larson’s mentor during his college education. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Larson participated in a summer stock theatre program at The Barn Theatre in Augusta, Michigan as a piano player, which resulted in his earning an Equity Card for membership in the Actors’ Equity Association.

He was raised from White Plains, New York The actor died on the day of Rent’s preview show off Broadway in a sudden manner.

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Between 1983 and 1990, Larson wrote Superbia, originally intended as a futuristic rock retelling of George Orwell’s book Nineteen Eighty-Four, though the Orwell estate denied him permission to adapt the novel itself. Superbia won the Richard Rodgers Production Award and the Richard Rodgers Development Grant. However, despite performances at Playwrights Horizons and a rock concert version produced by Larson’s close friend and producer Victoria Leacock at the Village Gate in September 1989, Superbia was never fully produced.

Jonathan Larson Net Worth

Jonathan Larson is one of the richest Playwright from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jonathan Larson's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Some of his first work includes the music Sacrimmoralinority and Superbia which is the latter was originally intended to represent an adaptation 1984 by George Orwell, however, Orwell did not grant him the rights.

Perhaps his most well-known other album was his rock monologue the tick… BOOM! initially called 30/90 and then Boho Days before finishing as it’s now popularly known.

Larson was born to Jewish parents, Allan and Nanette (1927-2018) Larson, in White Plains, New York, on February 4, 1960. He was exposed to the performing arts, especially music and theatre, from an early age, as he played the trumpet, tuba, sang in his school’s choir, and took formal piano lessons. His early musical influences were his favorite rock musicians such as Elton John, The Beatles, The Doors, The Who, and Billy Joel, as well as the classic composers of musical theatre, especially Stephen Sondheim. Larson was also involved in acting in high school, performing in lead roles in various productions at White Plains High School. He had a sister Julie.

Playwright Billy Aronson came up with the idea to write a musical update of La Bohème in 1988. He wanted to create “a musical inspired by Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème, in which the luscious splendor of Puccini’s world would be replaced with the coarseness and noise of modern New York”.

In 1989, Aronson called Ira Weitzman with his idea, asking for ideas for collaborators, and Weitzman put Larson together with Aronson to collaborate on the new project. Larson came up with the title and suggested moving the setting from the Upper West Side to downtown, where Larson and his roommates lived in a rundown apartment. For a while, he and his roommates kept an illegal wood-burning stove because of lack of heat in their building. He also dated a dancer for four years who sometimes left him for other men and eventually left him for a woman. These experiences would influence the autobiographical aspects of Rent. Larson wanted to write about his own experience, and in 1991, he asked Billy if he could use the original concept they collaborated on and make Rent his own. They made an agreement that if the show went to Broadway, Aronson would share in the proceeds. Eventually they decided on setting the musical not in SoHo, where Larson lived, but rather in Alphabet City in the East Village.

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Among his early creative works is Sacrimmoralinority, his first musical which was co-written with David Glenn Armstrong, and originally staged at his alma mater Adelphi University in the winter of 1981. Following Jonathan and David’s graduation in 1982, and retitled Saved! – An Immoral Musical on the Moral Majority, the Brechtian-themed musical cabaret played a four-week showcase run at Rusty’s Storefront Blitz, a small theatre on 42nd Street in Manhattan, and won both authors a writing award from ASCAP.

In 1992, Larson collaborated with fellow composer/lyricists Rusty Magee, Bob Golden, Paul Scott Goodman and Jeremy Roberts on Sacred Cows, which was devised and pitched to television networks as a weekly anthology with each episode taking a different Biblical or mythological story and giving it a ’90s celebrity twist. The project was shelved due to scheduling conflicts among the five composers but resurfaced over 20 years later in a six-page Playbill.com article. The demo for Sacred Cows was released on iTunes.

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His next work, completed in 1991, was an autobiographical “rock monologue” entitled 30/90, which was later renamed Boho Days and finally titled tick, tick… BOOM! This piece, written for only Larson with a piano and rock band, was intended to be a response to his feelings of rejection caused by the disappointment of Superbia. The show was performed off-Broadway at the Village Gate in Greenwich Village, as well as at the Second Stage Theater, then on the Upper West Side. Both of these productions were produced by Victoria Leacock. The producer Jeffrey Seller saw a reading of Boho Days and expressed interest in producing Larson’s musicals. After Larson’s death, the work was reworked into a stage musical by playwright David Auburn and arranger and musical director Stephen Oremus. The stage version premiered off-Broadway in 2001, and has since also been produced on the West End.

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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. However, the version that is now known worldwide, the result of a three-year-long collaborative and editing process between Larson and the producers and director, was not publicly performed before Larson’s death. The show premiered Off Broadway on schedule. Larson’s parents (who were flying in for the show anyway) gave their blessing to open the show. Due to Larson’s death the day before the first preview performance, the cast agreed that they would premiere the show by simply singing it through, all the while sitting at three prop tables lined up on stage. But by the time the show got to its high energy “La Vie Boheme”, the cast could no longer contain themselves and did the rest of the show as it was meant to be, minus costumes, to the crowd and the Larson family’s approval. Once the show was over, there was a long applause followed by silence which was eventually broken when an audience member shouted out “Thank you, Jonathan Larson.”

What caused Jonathan Larson's death?

It was believed that Larson’s aortic dissection was caused by an undiagnosed case of Marfan syndrome, a disease that weakens the body’s connective tissue.

What happened Jonathan Larson?

Larson died at his home in the early morning of January 25, 1996, ten days before his 36th birthday, the day of the first Off-Broadway preview performance of Rent. An autopsy determined Larson died from an aortic dissection. His body was found on the kitchen floor by his roommate at 3AM.

How much did Jonathan Larson estate make from Rent?

David Taback, the lawyer that represented Larson’s family and estate, estimated to The Washington Post in 1996 that Rent would earn $250 million in its lifetime, with a third going toward Larson’s estate—which includes his parents and sister.

What did Stephen Sondheim think of Jonathan Larson?

But when I interviewed Sondheim in 1996, a few months after Larson’s sudden death, his view was complicated. “I think it is a work in progress,” he said of “Rent,” the Broadway sensation that won Larson a Pulitzer and a Tony. “He wanted to put in everything and the kitchen sink, and he did.

Is Jonathan Larson's friend Michael still alive?

Michael, in turn, is inspired by Larson’s real-life childhood friend Matt O’Grady, who truly was diagnosed as HIV-positive during this time. Lin-Manuel Miranda revealed that Michael’s real-life counterpart is alive and healthy today, saying he’s practically a champion swimmer.

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