Personal favorites: Jim Carrey, Liza Minnelli, Demi Moore let me rub her bald head when she was shooting G.I. It was amazing to meet so many notable actors, artists and celebrities that loved the show. We walked onstage to our starting positions and received a standing ovation from the audience before Anthony spoke his first words. One of my favorite onstage moments is after the show won the Tony for Best Musical. There are too many funny mishaps to mention, but the most notable for me is losing my wig in the middle of “La Vie Boheme.” I hadn’t done many musical theatre auditions ’til then, so I sang “Great Balls of Fire” and “Amazing Grace”. Wilson Jermaine Heredia (Angel Schunard) I remember it being uncharted territory for me. I watch what’s going on with Hamilton now, and I’m like, “Yeah, I know what that’s like. That alley out there… Some amazing things happened out there, and I met some amazing people in that alley, from Robert De Niro to Tom Cruise to Jim Carrey to Prince to Roger Daltrey to Billy Joel, Steven Spielberg… Everyone you can think of, I met in that alley after the show. I think I'd only seen two Broadway musicals by that point in my life. Even the times I was in the theatre with the show going on were extremely rare. It was my first show, and so everything was such a new experience to me, even being in a theatre without a show being performed was so exciting to me because I had never been in a theatre with the lights on, where there wasn't a show going on onstage. And, I had nothing to compare it to because I had never done anything like that before. I can’t remember a time where I ever sat out here alone. We need to have his story be told.Īnthony Rapp and Adam Pascal in Rent Joan MarcusĪdam Pascal (Roger Davis) We were such a family, so all 15 of us were always together, so wherever we went, it was all of us. It felt right because yes, this story-all of this needs to be talked about, and all of this deserves to be seen and told and heard because something really important and vital and incredible is happening, and Jonathan is not here, so yes, we will do anything… I mean, I can’t speak for everyone. The thing I always remember feeling is that everything felt so appropriate. When we show up at the New York Theatre Workshop, and Vanity Fair is coming to do a photo shoot, it’s this surreal thing happening at the center of what is also happening, which is this personal grief. All of it is so vivid, partly because of trauma. They reminisce on backstage shenanigans (including the time Taye Digg’s went streaking after he was cast in How Stella Got Her Groove Back), onstage mishaps and, of course, Jonathan Larson.Ĭlick here for more on the cast’s relationship with Larson.Īnthony Rapp (Mark Cohen) It became a whirlwind, but always at the center of it was that fact, that event-that terrible event -so it felt like both whirlwind and slow motion for me. Now, 20 years later, members of the original Broadway cast share details from the audition room and their fondest memories from the Rent experience. On April 29, 1996, Rent opened on Broadway. Read more about the musical’s creation here. After Rent made its debut at Off-Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop in January 1996, the musical quickly took off-garnering national press and critical acclaim before it was decided that it would transfer to Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre.
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