Jonathan Larson
JONATHAN LARSON received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize
for Drama for Rent. Rent received four
1996 Tony Awards (including Best
Musical and Best Score of a Musical); six
1996 Drama Desk Awards (including Best
Musical and three to Mr. Larson-- Best
Book of a Musical, Best Music, and Best
Lyrics); 1996 Best Musical Awards from
the New York Drama Critics Circle and
the Outer Critics Circle (Off-Broadway);
and three 1996 Obie Awards (including one to Mr. Larson for
Outstanding Book, Music, and Lyrics). He won the 1994 Richard
Rodgers Award for Rent and twice received The Gilman &
Gonzales-Falla Theatre Foundation's Commendation Award. 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. In 1988 he won the
Richard Rodgers Development Grant for his rock musical
Superbia which was staged at Playwrights Horizons. He
composed the score for the musical J.P. Morgan Saves the
Nation, which was presented by En Garde Arts in 1995. Mr.
Larson performed his rock monologue tick, tick...BOOM! at
Second Stage Theatre, The Village Gate, and New York Theatre
Workshop. 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. Other film scores include work for Rolling
Stone magazine publisher Jann Wenner. He conceived, directed,
and wrote four original songs for Away We Go!, a musical video
for children. Rent, his rock opera based on La Bohème, had its
world premiere on February 13, 1996 at New York Theatre
Workshop. Mr. Larson died unexpectedly of an aortic aneurysm
on January 25, 1996, ten days before his 36th birthday.
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