The Jonathan Larson Project is slated to begin performances at the Orpheum Theatre on February 14, with an official opening on Monday, March 10.
Ahead of the first performance of The Jonathan Larson Project on February 14, watch the cast perform two songs in rehearsal! In new videos, the cast performs "SOS" and "One of These Days."
The Jonathan Larson Project will star Adam Chanler-Berat, Lauren Marcus, Andy Mientus, Taylor Iman-Jones, and Jason Tam. It is slated to begin performances at the Orpheum Theatre on February 14, with an official opening on Monday, March 10. It will play a limited engagement for 16 weeks only.
Adam Chanler-Berat, Lauren Marcus, Andy Mientus, Taylor Iman-Jones, and Jason Tam perform "One of These Days," which Larson had written for his un-produced Superbia musical.
Andy Mientus and the cast perform "SOS," which Larson had written for a musical adaptation of 1984, which never came to fruition.
The Jonathan Larson Project is a new musical that celebrates the dozens of unheard songs, unfinished and unproduced musicals, and pop songs found in files and boxes when the visionary writer of RENT died suddenly at the age of 35 in 1996. The five-person cast will feature Broadway stars Adam Chanler-Berat, Taylor Iman Jones, Lauren Marcus, Andy Mientus, and Jason Tam.
Conceived by Jennifer Ashley Tepper and directed by John Simpkins, The Jonathan Larson Project features more than 20 undiscovered songs by the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning writer. It was originally presented as a concert at 54 Below in Fall 2018 and was released as an album on Ghostlight Records in 2019.
With Music Supervision and Orchestrations by Charlie Rosen and Co-Arrangements by Charlie Rosen and Natalie Tenenbaum, The Jonathan Larson Project also features Choreography by Byron Easley and Music Direction by Cynthia Meng. Casting is by The Telsey Office/Rachel Hoffman with General Management by Evan Bernardin Productions.