He eventually attended Adelphi University to study acting and also began creating his own music.
In the beginning of the film, Larson’s family paint a picture of his childhood growing up in White Plains, New York, where he was in the school band and chorus and starred in his high school productions. In 2006, a documentary about the making of Rent titled No Day But Today: The Story of ‘Rent’was released, featuring interviews with Larson’s parents, sister, cousins, friends, and former co-workers. Below, more about the legendary playwright, including what happened in those final days of his life. Now with tick, tick.Boom!, Miranda helps Larson’s legacy live on.
“I grew up in a predominantly Spanish-speaking neighborhood in Upper Manhattan that burst with music and characters, and ‘Rent’ whispered to me, ‘Your stories are just as valid as the ones in the shows you’ve seen.’” Then when he saw tick, tick.Boom! a few years later, the show “grabbed the 21-year old me and refused to let go,” he wrote.īut Miranda was never able to meet Larson, who tragically passed away in 1996 the night before the first public performance of Rent at the New York Theatre Workshop. “More than anything, it gave me permission to write about my community,” Miranda wrote in the New York Timesin 2014. Miranda has long been a fan of Larson’s work, telling publications over the years that seeing Rent on his 17th birthday was a life-changing moment for him as an artist.
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