As a member of rentNative Broadway throwsand Anthony Rap I got the certificate Jonathan LarsonLive genius.

“It was a prolific production,” he told Rap, 53, US weekly Exclusively on Monday, March 10, while celebrating the opening night of the new Broadway music, Jonathan Larson project, In New York City. “He was very young, but it is prolific.”

Now a legend in the world of music theater, Larson He died unexpectedly at the age of 35 Shortly before performing the first inspection of rent In January 1996. RAPP starred in the role of Mark Cohen in the original actors Adam Pascaland Dafni Robin Vegaand Idina Menzeland Tai Digz And more.

The rent became a specific success in a profession, as he received multiple awards after his death Larson, including the Tony Award for Best Music and Politzer Award for Drama. Although his beloved work may be, Larson’s music archive – and Jonathan Larson project Finally, the fans allow access to the work of the songwriter who has not heard.

“I really went to this I don’t know,” I tell Rap we. “I didn’t want to know how they organized it. I didn’t want to know what the songs are in it. I wanted to come to him completely open to everything it would have been, and I was very transferred.”

RAPP is known for “Four or Five” of the Sung-thetough display, which starred Adam Changler batchand Taylor Iman Jonesand Andy Maintusand Jason there and Lauren Marcos.

“[‘Valentine’s Day’] It was a song in an early version of rent It has been cut and changed, as you know, it has become something else. … We made a copy of the company “Love Heals”, so it was a song I was aware of. weHe also cited “Bora Fida” and “Creating Furniture” as a deep reduction.

Along with existence Launch He has not heard before, Rap pointed to the privacy of the larger Larson’s interior vision.

“The family extends”, he said, in detailing his personal history with Chanler-BARAT and TAM. “He is not a rented, but it is everything [connected]. So it looks like at home. “

Although he was familiar with the new offer, RAPP was his hands during the rehearsal process. This is for them. His legacy lives, and his legacy is very pure. This is amazing. “

He spoke to Larson’s passion, Rap said we“I know that he had moments of doubt and had moments where he gave up almost, but … he always believed in himself. He always believed in the possibility and strength of what art and theater could have, and what the song and music could do, and he was deeply driven by that. So this is also through all this [show]”

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The Larson family was on hand to celebrate Emotional opening night. “It is very difficult to address and clarify it immediately,” his sister, Jolly LarsonHe said we After performance. “But this is a long time and [conceiver] Only tefer This was in her heart and in her eyes for years. To see it, its fruits with such a talented emotional group have become people and hear some of these songs, which he heard a few people except for our family, as you learned, on the cassette tapes, beautiful. “

Jolie continued, “It is great. He is always emotionally complicated, but I am very happy at the moment.”

The project displays “a lot of colors from where it comes [and] “Where he started,” said Jolie, praising the “wide range of patterns” seen on the stage. Mientus agreed, he says we It was shocked by “curiosity and fun” in the writing of Jonathan.

“Jonathan Larson is the complete reason for doing this … and I thought we saw all the work we had from,” the actor continued. “So not only to have a new work in New York City at the present time, but to be part of it-to be in the Jonathan Larson’s third crew at all in New York City-it is a dream that I did not even know that I could have it, and it has become a reality.”

Jonathan Larson project Now in offers for limited 16 weeks, it ends on June 1, at the Orpheum Theater in New York City.