NEW YORK — “Rent” alum Anthony Rapp is giving fans of the iconic musical — about friends contending with life amid the AIDS epidemic in early 1990s New York City — a peek behind the curtain.
“Without You,” based off Rapp’s one-man musical and memoir of the same name, will have its opening night at New World Stages on Jan. 25, 2023, marking exactly 27 years since the first public performance of “Rent” at New York Theatre Workshop. The limited run, whose public performances kick off Jan. 14, will take its final bow on April 30.
“In 1994, Anthony Rapp was 22, out of money and working at a Starbucks, about to audition for a new musical by a young writer named Jonathan Larson. The musical? The global phenomenon Rent,” reads a synopsis from the show’s official site.
“Anthony shares his unimaginable real-life story during the early years of ‘Rent’ in this intimate evening of unsurpassed joy and unspeakable loss.”
The production, which borrows the title of a song in “Rent,” will include “beloved songs from Rent alongside Anthony’s original music” and “asks us the universal question of how to crack our hearts open and allow us to heal.”
Rapp originated the role of Mark Cohen for the Broadway run of “Rent” and reprised the part in the 2005 big-screen adaptation.
Representatives for Rapp did not immediately respond to the Daily News’ request for comment.
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