![]() He wanted to write about his own experience, and in 1991, he asked Aronson if he could use the original concept they collaborated on and make Rent his own. The following year, he contacted Larson to collaborate on the project. He wanted to create 'a musical inspired by Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème, in which the luscious splendor of Puccini's world would be replaced with the coarseness and noise of modern New York'. It was in 1988 that playwright Billy Aronson came up with the idea to write a musical update of La Bohème. The show was performed off-Broadway at the Village Gate in Greenwich Village, as well as at the Second Stage Theater, then on the Upper West Side. In it, Larson crooned and brooded as he grappled with turning 30 and the harsh reality of life as a struggling artist. ![]() His next work, Tick, tick.Boom! documented his feelings of rejection caused by the disappointment of Superbia. However, despite some successful performances, it was never fully produced. It was a difficult period for Larson, who attempted to write several theatre shows, with varying success.īetween 19, Larson wrote Superbia, intended as a futuristic rock retelling of George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four. ![]()
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