Jonathan Larson — Page 2

oh my gosh, i didn't realize that was today.
it doesn't seem like eleven years, such a long time ago. but then again i guess it really wasn't.

no matter what anyone may say about it, rent was and still continues to be one of the most powerful and groundbreaking shows in the theatre. it's like a right of passage to see rent, and everyone knows of the show. what an amazing accomplishment it is, and i'm sure jonathan is looking down and smiling at each and every performance of it. each time someone hums seasons of love and sings one song glory at the top of their lungs, jonathan is there. and from the opening notes of the first tune up to the closing harmonies of finale b, he lives on.
going from starving artist to a huge broadway success, even posthumously is just such an amazing feat. i am proud to know and have seen rent and i do and always will believe in all that it stands for. so live on rent, you're still doing great things out there onstage and off.

in loving memory, Jonathan.

rest in peace, love, and music.

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"It's not how long you're here but what you do while you're here."

Rest in peace, Jonathan Larson. His life and his contributions will not be forgotten.

Thank you Jon.

"Hey, what a way to spend a day
I make a vow
Right here and now
I'm gonna spend my time this way"

I didn't even realize that today was the day that Jonathan passed away. Very sad, R.I.P.

Thank you JL from me all the way in the UK

I hope your making great music up there with the angels

You and your work will never be forgotten

XXXXXXXXXXX

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Sad day.

RIP

The thing that always makes me so sad is how his friends and family members (and even himself in tick, tick...BOOM!) said that he wanted to creat a Hair for the '90's generation- which he did, only after his death.

Rest in peace, Jonathan. You will not be forgotten.

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"two shows do not a legacy make"

Are you kidding me? Rent alone is legacy enough!
Jonathan Larson so brilliantly voiced the celebration of life and hope in the face of AIDS and hatred.

If there's only this-
that's quite a gift.
Thank you, Jonathan.

Oh, strange. I was just struck with the sudden urge to listen to TTB, after months of letting it rest, and Johnny Can't Decide was playing when I came here and read this thread. I had no idea that was today.

Nothing like a sweet coincidence to make you feel a little better about dates like this.

I had forgotten that this was today, too. I never really know what to say on occasions such as this, particularly this one as Rent has gained -- and continues to have -- a very significant place in my heart.

I fell in love with Rent about five or so years ago, (and the time since then has been a mind-altering journey), but it wasn't until quite a bit of time after that that I became familiar with tick, Tick... BOOM! and the rest of Jonathan's story. I think it was Tracie Thoms who said this, and I think she put it so beautifully -- so many artists say "I'm going to change the world, change people's lives. I'm going to out there and I'm going to do it." But how many really do? And Jonathan did; he touched and changed so many lives, but he never got to know it. Of all the things I've heard said about Jonathan, that's the most heartbreaking, to me. He never knew his success. From the standpoint of someone who loves the theater, it also breaks my heart that we'll never know what other gifts his talent might have given us, and that sense of unfairness in that he was gone much too soon.

I haven't been to the Nederlander in quite some time, but I've been feeling lately that it might be time to return -- revisit an old friend, so to speak. Every time I do return, I feel as though I had forgotten just what a thing of beauty it really is.

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Updated On: 1/25/07 at 09:33 PM

I thought it was weird that when I put my shuffle mode on my iPod, Rent kept playing more than usual.

I don't care what anyone says. Rent will always mean something to me.

I want to write music
I want to sit down
Right now at the piano
And write a song that
People will listen to and remember
And do the same thing every morning
For the rest of my life.

-Thank you Jonathan Larson

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Wow i didn't know that it was today either. R.I.P...what a shame he was so young with so much potential..He would be very happy to see how successful rent is and what a cult following it has...

If I ever play Mark at the Company Theatre, I'm going to take a leaf out of Anthony Rapp's book and say, "We dedicate this and every performance to the memory of Jonathan Larson."

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