Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent by Rapp Anthony

Author:Rapp, Anthony [Rapp, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2006-10-31T04:00:00+00:00

Falling

and Spinning

The next time I saw Mom was two months later, on July 1st. I only had one day off a week, but now that I could afford it with my Broadway salary, I planned to visit her as often as I could; I didn’t know how much longer she would be around, so I wanted to make the most of the time she and I had left. I booked myself on an early-morning flight on Monday, with my return scheduled for Tuesday morning, getting me back into New York just in time for that evening’s performance.

In the preceding two months, the show had continued its meteoric rise. We were nominated for ten Tony Awards and won four, including two for Jonathan. We won three OBIE Awards, including one for Michael Greif’s direction and one that the entire cast shared for Outstanding Ensemble. Jonathan and the show won Best Musical from the New York Drama Critics Circle, the Outer Critics Circle, the Drama League, and the Drama Desk. We consistently sold out every seat and every standing room ticket at every performance. We sang “Seasons of Love” on The Rosie O’Donnell Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, and the Today show. Jonathan and our show were the subjects of segments on Primetime Live, CBS News Sunday Morning, and 48 Hours. And in May we went into the Right Track Studios to record the cast album for DreamWorks Records, which had won the rights to our show after what was reportedly an intense bidding war among several labels. During the first month of our Broadway run, we didn’t have one full day or night off, and yet no one in the cast had missed any performances.

And, as if that wasn’t enough to keep my head from spinning off its axis, I had fallen in love. His name was Todd. When I met him, the day after opening night, he was just finishing up his senior year in NYU’s Dramatic Writing Program where he was taking a playwrighting class with John Guare, the writer of Six Degrees of Separation. John had discussed Rent with his class (he was a big fan, having written about us in Vogue) and had encouraged Todd to get in touch with me, thinking we’d hit it off. I don’t know if John was trying to set us up romantically, but midway through my first conversation with Todd, which began on AOL, moved to the phone, and lasted for hours, I was already smitten. His fierce intellect, his barbed sense of humor, his self-deprecating sweetness all came through loud and clear on the computer, and even more so on the phone. I just hoped he was cute. The next night I was going to find out; we’d arranged a date for after the show. Coincidentally, we lived a block and a half from each other in the East Village, so our rendezvous point was on the corner of Second Avenue and Tenth Street. He obviously knew what

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