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“Thank you, Jonathan Larson!” That’s what one of the audience shouted after the first performance of Rent off-Broadway on 25 January, 1996. Larson, the author of the musical, had died earlier that very same day.
Rent went on to become a big part of Broadway history, and as the eagerly awaited film version of Larson’s earlier work, the autobiographical tick, tick… BOOM!, is released, the time seems right to revisit the writer’s legacy and his best-known creation, which marks its 25th anniversary this year.
The day before his death, Larson gave his first and only major interview about to the . In it, he spoke about the coincidence that his show was due to open exactly a hundred years after the premiere of its main inspiration, . In Puccini’s heartrending opera,
