Jonathan Larson

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Jonathan Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer from New York City who created musicals including Rent (1996) and tick, tick...BOOM! (1990). These musicals seriously tackle issues such as multiculturalism, addiction, sexual orientation and HIV. Rent was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won four Tony Awards. The scores of his shows reveal that he was an apt composer and lyricist. One tick, tick...BOOM! song called "Sunday" is an homage to Stephen Sondheim, who supported Larson. It stays close to the melody and lyrics of Sondheim's own song of the same title but turning it from a manifesto about art into a waiter's lament. Among the many awards he received during and after his lifetime were: the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (for Rent), the Richard Rodgers Production Award, the Richard Rodgers Development Grant, the Stephen Sondheim Award, the Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation's Commendation Award, the Tonys for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Score of a Musical for Rent, the Drama Desks for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Book, and Best Lyrics (also for Rent), the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical (again for Rent), the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical in the Off-Broadway category (another for Rent), and three Obie Awards for Outstanding Book, Outstanding Lyrics and Outstanding Music (yet again for Rent). Among his many creative works are Rent, tick, tick...BOOM!, Sacrimora

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The Best of Rent

Rent- Selections From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Rent (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Rent (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (disc 2)

RENT - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Rent

Rent [Original Soundtrack] Disc 1

Rent [Original Soundtrack] Disc 2

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Rent (Original Broadway Cast) (disc 1)

Jonathan Sings Larson

The Jonathan Larson Project

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Rent (Original Broadway Cast) (disc 2)

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