Without You - A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical RENT

Anthony Rapp

Simon & Schuster

2006

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780743269766

As Rent hits the big screen, Rapp, who appeared in the film and the original cast of the Broadway hit, has written a sensitive, heartfelt memoir chronicling his life on and off stage. The actor who played video artist Mark Cohen pulls back the curtains to show the musical's genesis, which involved endless rehearsals and false starts. He lauds the genius of Jonathan Larson, its creator, and the supportive New York Theatre Workshop, which lent its facilities to the exuberant troupe and director. Rapp writes most movingly of his friends who lost their battle with AIDS [...] as well as the long, painful demise of his mother from cancer. While the book sometimes plunges too deeply into its twin themes of love and loss, Rapp recognizes the healing power of drama and theater, writing that acting is "an escape of sorts." Absorbing, warm and hopeful, the book celebrates a man, his work and a generation struggling with AIDS but determined to survive.

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Que livro difícil. São assuntos que mexem muito comigo, morte, luto, perdas no geral…
Achei que ele fosse falar mais sobre Rent e sobre o Jonathan, mas na verdade o livro é sobre a vida pessoal dele. De qualquer forma, foi bom conhecer um pouco mais da história e das memórias do Anthony.