He was Malvolio in Twelfth Night that year. He was an acting major, a tall, gangly guy with black hair, and “a very good actor,” according to Leacock. Leacock says she first saw Jonathan when he starred as Christ in the college’s production of Godspell in 1981. She was a freshman at Adelphi University, on Long Island, and Jonathan was a senior. She said that when she met Larson she was more blatantly sexual, exotic and funky. Leacock was a slender, youthful-looking 38 in 2001. So much has been written about Rent and about Larson’s death Leacock is the ideal person to talk about Larson’s life and his work. When t ick…tick…Boom! finally opened at the Jane Street Theater in 2001, one of the musical’s producers was Victoria Leacock, one of Larson’s closest friends. He put aside tick…tick…Boom! when he started writing Rent, and it never had a theatrical run until five years after his death. Larson wrote tick…tick…Boom! In 1989, when he was on the verge of turning 30. I’d prefer to celebrate his life.Ī previous show, before Rent, was autobiographical, and when it had a posthumous off-Broadway premiere and an RCA recording, it gave us a look at his career. Jonathan Larson is mostly remembered for his untimely death just as his creation, Rent, was about to open.
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