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Posted: 11/27/05 at 6:18pm
Don't know if you guys have read this yet, but this is a great article about RENT and Jonathan Larson.
The movie "Rent," which hit multiplexes Wednesday, opens with a dark stage and a line of spotlights on actors singing Jonathan Larson's "Seasons of Love."
"525,600 minutes,
525,000 moments so dear.
525,600 minutes.
How do you measure, measure a year?"
Adding leap days and subtracting the days he died short of his 36th birthday, Jonathan Larson lived about 18,920,160 minutes. His final minute came the day before his rock opera, "Rent," was about to play its first preview performance.
...edited for copyright...
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051127/LIFESTYLE01/511270325/1031
The movie "Rent," which hit multiplexes Wednesday, opens with a dark stage and a line of spotlights on actors singing Jonathan Larson's "Seasons of Love."
"525,600 minutes,
525,000 moments so dear.
525,600 minutes.
How do you measure, measure a year?"
Adding leap days and subtracting the days he died short of his 36th birthday, Jonathan Larson lived about 18,920,160 minutes. His final minute came the day before his rock opera, "Rent," was about to play its first preview performance.
...edited for copyright...
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051127/LIFESTYLE01/511270325/1031
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
Updated On: 11/27/05 at 06:18 PM
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