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“It Feels Like We’re Lost in the East Village and Can’t Find a Way Out”
Jeffrey Seller, co-producer of ‘Rent,’ on Jonathan Larson and his show’s bumpy road to success.
In this excerpt, adapted from Seller’s memoir, Theater Kid(out on May 6 from Simon & Schuster), the producer lays out the musical’s long road from dispiriting workshop to its simultaneously triumphant and tragic first preview performance. Then a young Latina woman — small, sexy, with overflowing brown hair and a curvy catlike face — sings a rock song called “Out Tonight.” Her name is Daphne Rubin-Vega and her deep voice growls with gravel and gold. Clad in jeans, tennis shoes, and a baggy black sweater, he has a face that’s defined by the kind of round glasses that Harry Potter, still in the imagination of J. K. Rowling, will popularize in another two years.
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