The world-premiere musical, which celebrates the dozens of unheard songs of the "Rent" creator, will play its final performance next Sunday, March 30.
The labor-of-love production began previews on Feb. 14 with a March 10 debut. It garnered solid reviews, though it apparently didn't pack the house.
Show creator Jennifer Ashley Tepper shared this in an Instagram post:
It's no secret that it’s incredibly difficult to hit the numbers needed in order to run a commercial off-Broadway musical in the current theatrical climate. I am deeply proud of the valiant efforts our team made to try to do that because we believed in 'The Jonathan Larson Project." I am deeply proud of the passionate reactions we've received from audiences every night. And I am deeply proud of our beautiful show and everyone who made it.
Larson died of an aortic dissection on Jan. 25, 1996, the scheduled day of the first preview performance of "Rent" Off-Broadway. He was 35.
In the early 1990s, Larson frequented the Life Cafe (which closed in 2011) on the NW corner of Avenue B and 10th Street. There, he worked on treatments for what would become "Rent," also set in this neighborhood.
The post-"Stomp" life of the Orpheum has included shows by Rachel Bloom and Eddie Izzard, which saw the theater return to its roots in the 1980s and early 1990s when it hosted Off-Broadway productions like Sandra Bernhard's "Without You I'm Nothing," Eric Bogosian's "Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll" and John Leguizamo's "Mambo Mouth."
This will be the third show in the past two years to end its run early at the Orpheum — joining the "Star Wars" parody "The Empire Strips Back" and "The Big Gay Jamboree."
H/T Bayou!
2 comments:
Have no fear, rather than attend cultural events there is a line at the new bakery 6 blocks south. For shame.
The dream of the 90's is still alive....in Portland.
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