Still Waiting For Godot

“Jonathan Larson is regarded as a great composer yet it’s really a disservice to the wider lesson of his brief life,” says Ethan Putterman, “beyond amazing scores and lyrics is a tale of do-or-die perseverance for the benefit of art.”    The creator of the blockbuster musical, ‘Rent’, Larson, who passed away at the premature age of 35 from an undiagnosed heart condition in 1995, is finding renewed celebrity in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Tick, Tick, Boom!,’ starring Andrew Garfield on Netflix.    The story of Larson’s frustrating and futile efforts to get an earlier musical produced, ‘Superbia’, when the late composer was still an undiscovered, struggling twentysomething in New York City in the 90’s, it is an enchanting blurring of facts and fiction originally staged as a one man show.    With just Larson with a supporting band, ‘Tick, Tick, Boom!,’ arrived and disappeared with little fanfare until the marathon success of ‘Rent’ ushered forth a new generation of theatregoers -‘Rentheads’- hu