Under the Knife by Diane Fanning

Author:Diane Fanning
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2007-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

JASON OPSAHL’S CANCER RETURNED AGAIN—SHOWING UP soon after closing night for The Full Monty. He went into New York Weill Cornell Medical Center for his third brain surgery. His heart arrested during the procedure and Jason Opsahl died on October 25, 2002. Rosie O’Donnell, a friend to the end, flew to Florida. She sat with the family during the funeral service.

A distraught Broadway packed the John Houseman Theatre on 42nd Street on November 5 to bid farewell to the blonde actor with the baby face whom all the theater community had come to know and love. Technical show people assembled a moving media presentation of film footage and still shots. Among the attendees were Greg Bach and Dean Faiello.

Jerry Mitchell was there, too. In his twenty-five years in New York, he’d lost many friends to HIV/AIDS and was sorrowfully prepared for that eventuality. Now, though, he was devastated. He never thought he’d lose a good friend to cancer so young.

As he thought back on Jason, he remembered that when Jason was there with you, he was always totally present in the moment. “Jason taught me that quantity and quality are two completely different things,” Jerry said. “None of us knows the quantity of time we will have, but we all can determine the quality.”

Jason Opsahl was only 39 years old—the light of his talent, energy and generosity blinked out, no longer adding to the brilliance along the Great White Way.

Dean had no time to grieve the passing of his former lover. His own pile of problems continued to stack higher, threatening to bury him in an avalanche of self-created debris.

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