The
New York Times
bestselling memoir of Anthony Rapp, star of Broadway's Pulitzer Prize–winning musical
Rent
.
Anthony Rapp had a special feeling about Jonathan Larson's rock musical
as early as his first audition, which won him a starring role as the video artist Mark Cohen.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning
opened to thunderous acclaim off-Broadway—but even as friends and family were celebrating the show's first success, they were also mourning Jonathan Larson's sudden death from an aortic aneurysm. And when Anthony's mom began to lose her battle with cancer, Anthony found himself struggling to balance his life in the theater with his responsibility to his family.
In
Without You,
Anthony tells of his exhilarating journey with the cast and crew of Rent as well as the intimacies of his personal life behind the curtain. Marked by fledgling love and devastating loss,
Without You
is an exceptional memoir of the world of theater, the love of a son for his mother, and maturity won far too early.