Before he wrote the musical Rent, Jonathan Larson collaborated with another songwriter, Bob Golden, on Away We Go!, a children’s video about transportation. I had met Jonathan through New York Theater Workshop, and he called on me to operate the newt puppet that you see here. I also had a cameo as a bus passenger. Jonathan himself appeared in another cameo, as an elevator passenger. We filmed this strictly on the cheap, at one point having a rather unpleasant altercation with a cop who disapproved of us filming at the airport without a permit. The video was released two weeks before Jonathan died, in 1996.