Rent saved my life” reads one scrawled message on a white-board full of similar sentiments, some quoting the legendary 1996 musical: “There’s only this!” “No day but today.” The white-boards—with markers provided—are in the entrance of the Orpheum Theatre in New York’s East Village for those coming to see The Jonathan Larson Project (booking to June 1),

The Jonathan Larson Project is open now at at the Orpheum Theatre for a 16 week limited engagement. The musical is a world premiere that celebrates the dozens of unheard songs, unfinished and unproduced musicals,

Jonathan Larson, the cheerily boyish composer of “Rent,” died in 1993 at the age of 35 and thus “The Jonathan Larson Project,” the new Off-Broadway collection of his unheard songs, is a bit like