Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cast of Rent performing on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' in November 1996 Tim Weil, the original music director of Rent, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Weil, 67, worked closely with Larson, who wrote the book, script and lyrics for the 1996 Broadway show. However, Larson died on ...

Larson died the day before the first Off-Broadway preview performance of the acclaimed rock musical Larson's untimely death highlighted the dangers of undiagnosed Marfan syndrome and raised awareness ...

Rent's opening scene almost looked — and sounded — completely different. Tim Weil, the original music director of Rent, tells PEOPLE there was one song Jonathan Larson really wanted to open the show, ...