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Jonathan Larson: Life & Work

He followed up Superbia in 1991 with an autobiographical musical called tick, tick ... BOOM!, which fictionalized his own journey trying to get Superbia produced. He created the show to be smaller and “more producible,” with just three actors including himself. He was urged to cast another actor in the role of Jon so that he could focus on his book, but he refused. Tick became more successful than Superbia, with several developmental productions. After tick, tick ... BOOM! ran at Second Stage Theater, an aspiring producer, Jeffrey Seller, saw the show and wrote Jonathan a letter:

“Your work — music, lyrics, and spoken word — has an emotional power and resonance that I have rarely experienced in the theatre. You’re also insightful, perceptive, and very funny,” said Seller. He added, “Like you, I want to do great things in the theatre.” Seller would go on to produce shows like Avenue Q and Hamilton and was instrumental in bringing

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Jonathan Larson ’82 was the kind of person who made a memorable first impression. Just ask anyone who knew the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and composer of the musical RENT during his student days at Adelphi.

Jonathan Larson, with Maggie Lally as Mary Magdalene, in a 1982 campus production of Godspell.

“He came in like a spark plug,” said Nicholas Petron, MA ’70, professor and chair of the Department of Theatre,in a panel discussion held last November. Petron remembers the moment he met Larson in the late 1970s. Larson was a teen who had come to the Olmsted Theater on campus to audition for a spot in the performing arts department. “He went right to the piano—and this was anactingaudition,” Petron said. “He did some monologues, but that was after he putzed on the piano for a while. And that was my first impression: ‘Who is this guy?’ He was a firecracker.”

Petron, who, along with Professor Emeritus Jacques Burdick, PhD, had come to Adelphi in the early 1970s from the Yale School of Drama to start an undergrad repertory theater, were bl

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Jonathan Larson

American composer, lyricist and playwright (1960–1996)

For the American journalist, see Jonathan Larsen.

"Jon Larson" redirects here. For other people with similar names, see John Larson (disambiguation).

Jonathan David Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer, lyricist and playwright, most famous for writing the musicals Rent and Tick, Tick... Boom!, which explored the social issues of multiculturalism, substance use disorder, and homophobia.

Larson had worked on both musicals throughout the late 1980s and into the 1990s. After several years of workshopping, Rent began an Off-Broadway run in early 1996, though Larson died from an aortic dissection the day before its first preview performance. The show went on to enjoy critical and commercial success, and transferred to Broadway that April, one of the longest-running Broadway productions. Larson posthumously received three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Rent was also adapted into a 2005 film. Tick, Tick... Boom! received an Off-Broadway production in 2