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Away We Go!

November 12th, 2011 · No Comments

 

 

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.

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