![]() Both followed mostly queer people living in the East Village in the early '90s, when AIDS was ravaging the artists community, except the central character in Rent, Mark, was a straight white guy (like Larson himself). ![]() But Larson (a straight white cis man) had a brain aneurysm, and his unexpected death led to a heightened sense of meaning to his new musical about living (at least, if you're a straight white guy).Īs Schulman watched the musical that would eventually become the precursor to Hamilton, she writes about the experience watching scenes from her real life - and her subsequent novel - on stage. ![]() Schulman says that she, like many others, assumed he'd died of AIDS. Jonathan Larson, the musical’s creator, had died the night before the show's first preview at only 35 years old. Seven years after the novel’s release, Schulman saw Rent for the first and last time. Every attempt to bring People in Trouble to the stage or screen was thwarted, and so Schulman moved on to keep writing more plays and publish more books. ![]() ![]() But from the beginning, directors and producers were not thrilled about the major relationship being between two women even gay men within the theater industry made misogynistic and lesphobic remarks. ![]()
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