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A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent
Simon and Schuster
February 2006
320 pages ISBN: 0743269764 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Anthony Rapp captures the passion and grit unique to the
theatre world as he recounts his life-changing experience in
the original cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical
Rent.
Anthony had a special feeling about Jonathan Larson's rock
musical from his first audition, so he was thrilled when he
landed a starring role as the filmmaker Mark Cohen. With his
mom's cancer in remission and a reason to quit his newly
acquired job at Starbucks, his life was looking up.
When Rent opened to thunderous acclaim off Broadway,
Rapp and his fellow cast members knew that something truly
extraordinary had taken shape. But even as friends and
family were celebrating the show's success, they were also
mourning Jonathan Larson's sudden death from an aortic
aneurysm. By the time Rent made its triumphant jump
to Broadway, Larson had posthumously won the 1996 Pulitzer
Prize. When Anthony's mom began to lose her battle with
cancer, he struggled to balance the demands of life in the
theatre with his responsibility to his family. Here, Anthony
recounts the show's magnificent success and his overwhelming
loss. He also shares his first experiences discovering his
sexuality, the tension it created with his mother, and his
struggle into adulthood to gain her acceptance.
Variously marked by fledgling love and devastating loss,
piercing frustration and powerful enlightenment, Without
You charts the course of Rapp's exhilarating journey
with the cast and crew of Rent as well as the
intimacies of his personal life behind the curtain.
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