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Anthony Rappis bringing his life’s story to the stage.
On Tuesday, producer Lisa Dozier and Royal Family Productions announced that an adaptation of theRentstar’s one-man musical and memoir of the same name,Without You, will premiere in New York City on Jan. 14, 2023.
The show will run on a limited-run basis and see its opening night on Jan. 25, 2023, 27 years to the day after 51-year-old Rapp first took the stage forRent’s opening public performance at New York Theatre Workshop.
The show will run through April 30, 2022, according to the announcement.
The show will also feature original music and compositions from Rapp, David Matos, Joe Pisapia, and Daniel A. Weiss, according to the announcement.
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“Without Youis a powerful and ultimately uplifting story of love and loss all set to the iconic score ofRent,” producer Dozier said in a statement. “Anthony Rapp connects with audiences as he recalls the grief of losing his dear friend Jonathan Larson and his mom being diagnosed with cancer, all while starring in one of the biggest Broadway hits of all time.”
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Dozier added in the statement that the stage production has been in the works sinceRent’s 25th anniversary in Jan. 2021.
“We all walked through the fire together,” Rapp toldPlaybillin 2014 ofhow the show’s cast banded together after Larson’s deathat age 35 the night beforeRentopened to the public. “Sometimes, in crisis, people can really fall apart or it could really splinter people off… But it was like the opposite thing happened for all of us.”
“It brought us even stronger together, so that foundation is always there,” he added at the time.
Access to pre-sale tickets are available on thenew musical’s websitenow. Tickets are available starting Nov. 3.
Without Youopens at New World Stages beginning Jan. 14, 2023.
source: people.com
