Anthony Rapp: Without You – COMPACT DISCS

Title: Without You
Artist: Anthony Rapp
Label: P.S. Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 803607121020
Genre: Cast Recordings
Release Date: 2012-12-11
Number of Discs: 1

2012 release from the stage and film actor/singer. Anthony Rapp’s New York Times best-selling memoir becomes a stunning one-man show about grief, hope and triumph. Without You begins in 1994, with Rapp, then working at Starbucks, about to audition for a new musical called Rent. From there, Rapp movingly intertwines two stories: his experience as part of the original production of Rent (in which he created the role of Mark Cohen) – his audition, the casting process, rehearsals and the shared grief when it’s young composer Jonathan Larson died suddenly the night before the musical’s off-Broadway premiere – and Rapp’s achingly beautiful relationship with his mother, who was battling cancer during this turbulent time. Backed by a five-piece band, Rapp fuses a mix of original music and songs by Jonathan Larson and REM into a evening the London Times hailed, in a five-star review, as “transfixing in it’s truthfulness, an honest portrait of grief and growing up.”

Tracks:
1.1 Losing My Religion
1.2 Rent
1.3 The Next Day, I Got the Good News
1.4 Carry Me Home
1.5 Seasons of Love
1.6 La Vie Bohme
1.7 Mom Had Always Loved Country Life
1.8 Wild Bill
1.9 And for the Next Two Years
1.10 Back in New York
1.11 Another Day
1.12 Nothing Left Unfinished
1.13 A Couple Weeks Into Rehearsals
1.14 What You Own
1.15 The Next Morning, January 25th
1.16 One Song Glory/Halloween
1.17 We Were Moving to Broadway
1.18 On My Next Visit Home
1.19 Visits to You
1.20 I Found My Baby Book
1.21 Always
1.22 On the Morning of May 22nd
1.23 That Is Not You
1.24 The Perfect Setting for Her Memorial
1.25 Without You
1.26 Seasons of Love (Finale)