![]() His goal was to get it produced in the year 1984 itself. “SOS” ( 1984), 1982 The first full book musical Jonathan wrote was an adaptation of the book 1984 by George Orwell. I've been obsessed with Superbia lately and devouring the book Boho days which I highly recommend.Jonathan Larson’s copy of 1984. ![]() I can also talk a little bit more about the context of each song that I've mentioned. I've also found on tumblr a demo of the full song Sextet with Marin Mazzie and Jonathan Larson as Elizabeth and Studd Star and it's fascinating to understand the whole song after listening to the montage on the movie. English is not my first language and I have bad earing so I can't catch all the lyrics.) (If any kind soul after listening to Pale blue square and I wont close my eyes can transcribe the lyrics I would be forever grateful. Cassie Levy (original Elsa on Frozen the musical) did beautifully this song as a guest on one of the Jonathan Larson Project shows and I wish they had included on the album or released it somehow. Lastly, it's "Pale blue square" which is now my favorite Larson song and was sung by Elizabeth in the second version of Superbia after Josh leaves her. Marin also sings Come to your sense in the concert. I've put a list of the songs with the time in the comments to better find them. These performances are part of the show Today 4 U: Unsung Jonathan Larson that is now available on youtube. As unoficial audios, there's recordings of "I won't close my eyes" (the song that replaced come to your senses once it got cut) sung by Sarah Jessica Parker and "Ever After" (a duet sung by Josh and Elizabeth on the first version of Superbia) sung by THE Marin Mazzie and Scott Burkell. In speaking of the songs from Superbia, we have "LCD readout" in the Jonathan sings Larson album, "Come to your senses" in both Tick tick boom albuns (and the sextet montage in the movie version), "One of these days" in both The Jonathan Larson Project and Jonathan sings Larson albuns as official recordings. The book "Boho days" has a sumary of the plot for both versions of Superbia, it's not the whole script but it helps us understand the story and the changes. Still it was nice to see it and understand better the context of the songs based on which characters sung them. Netflix recently released a tour of the set of tick tick boom which had a photo of the songlist of Superbia and the characters, although is not the version of the movie since it has "I won't close my eyes", the song that replaced "Come to your senses". I'm also pretty confident that if there was an easily salvageable Larson musical from all of the drafts it would have been made already- particularly once Rent became a monster hit and producers were looking for "the next Rent" everywhere they could find it. You would need the blessing of the Larson estate and a lot of industry pull to make it happen. It's a number of fragments from many different workshops that don't really work together and it would be a huge undertaking to piece it together. I've heard that the problem with Superbia is that it's not like there's a finished vision for the show sitting in a vault somewhere. Unless you mean "working on it" in a more hands-off sense. Sondheim was apparently working on bringing the musical to fruitionĭo you have any source on this? Sondheim was an amazing man, but trying to piece together fragments of someone else's musical in his last weeks, particularly while he was involved with so many other projects including his own new musical, feels doubtful to me. We need to do something to see this happen. I so desperately want to see the Larson trilogy completed in some way.Īre there any writers or Washington DC bros who could go to the Library of Congress and watch/listen to the workshop recording or read the scripts and take notes? Larson only worked on 3 musicals, and despite spending nearly a decade on Superbia, there's not even a concept album. Is it possible for us, as a community, to bring some form of the musical to fruition? Whether as an unofficial reading on YouTube or as a second workshop? Sondheim was apparently working on bringing the musical to fruition, but unfortunately passed away last week before finishing it. They have a full recording of the workshop, as well as various drafts of the script and sheet music.Īside from this, the only Superbia content available to the public are the two songs seen in Tick Tick Boom, as well as 3 songs from The Jonathan Larson Project, an album from 2019. Turns out, the only way to see or read anything from the musical is through the Library of Congress. ![]() With the release of "Tick Tick Boom!" last week, I've been scouring the internet to find anything I can on Jonathan Larson's first musical, "Superbia". ![]()
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