RENT, his rock opera based on La Boheme, had its world premiere on Februat New York Theatre Workshop. He conceived, directed and wrote four original songs for Away We Go!, a musical video for children. Other film scores include work for Rolling Stones magazine publisher Jann Wenner. In addition to scoring and song writing for Sesame Street, he created music for a number of children's book-cassettes, including Steven Spielberg's An American Tail and Land Before Time. BOOM! at Second Stage Theatre, The Village Gate and New York Theatre Workshop. Larson performed his rock monologue tick, tick.

Morgan Saves the Nation, which was presented by En Garde Arts in 1995. He composed the score for the musical J.P. In 1988 he won the Richard Rodgers Development Grant for his rock musical Superbia, which was staged at Playwrights Horizon. In 1989 he was granted the Stephen Sondheim Award from American Music Theatre Festival, where he contributed to the musical Sitting on the Edge of the Future. He also won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 1994 Richard Rodgers Award for RENT and twice received The Gilman & Gonzales-Falla Theatre Foundation's Comendation Award.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International. All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI Jonathan Larson received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for RENT. RENT was originally produced in New York by New York Theatre Workshop and on Broadway by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. How these young bohemians negotiate their dreams, loves and conflicts provides the narrative thread to this groundbreaking musical. Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, feels like an outsider to life in general. Benny has sold out his Bohemian ideals in exchange for a hefty income and is on the outs with his former friends. Maureen deals with her chronic infidelity through performance art her partner, Joanne, wonders if their relationship is worth the trouble. The physical and emotional complications of the disease pervade the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom and Angel. Based loosely on Puccini's La Boheme, Jonathan Larson's Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.

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