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Nixon vs. Kennedy
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Larson lived in poverty, waited tables, and worked seven years to bring his rock opera “Rent” to the stage — only to collapse and die the night before previews were to open at the Off-Broadway New York Theater Workshop. The show’s initial five-week run sold out within 24 hours of opening night, and the play became an enormous critical and popular success.
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Born in White Plains, New York
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was born in white planes new york.
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Volks wagon cars, impalas, and hippy times were in the '70s.
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Americans celebrated the first Earth Day in 1970, and Congress passed the National Environmental Policy Act that same year. The Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act followed two years later. The oil crisis of the late 1970s drew further attention to the issue of conservation.
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Jonathan David Larson died on opening night
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He starts high school
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White Plains High School. After high school, Larson attended Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.
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1979 - 1982
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During the 1980s, conservative politics and Reaganomics held sway as the Berlin Wall crumbled, new computer technologies emerged, and blockbuster movies and MTV reshaped pop culture.
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Aids/HIV epidemic of1981 A person can live with HIV and Aids. but they will eventually die from it.
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premiere, of cats the musical
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He graduates with a bachelors of arts degree
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From 1993 till his death, Larson was working on his most famous play, called Rent. It started as a staged reading in 1993 at the New York Theatre Workshop, followed by a studio production that played a three-week run a year later. However, the version that is now known worldwide, the result of a three-year-long collaborative and editing process between Larson and the producers and director, was not publicly performed before Larson's death.
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Rent was written and published
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Died of an aortic aneurysm, at his home in Manhattan. An aortic aneurysm is a balloon-like bulge in the aorta, the large artery that carries blood from the heart through the chest and torso. Aortic aneurysms can dissect or rupture: The force of blood pumping can split the layers of the artery wall, allowing blood to leak in between them
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Instead of doing TB, aka Tuberculosis, they do HIV / Aids
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His famous works were published a year after he died
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Rent
Rent: Easy Piano 1997 -
