Is it true that the guy who wrote RENT, the musical, died before it opened on Broadway?
552041
YES, I think like 2 days before it opened.
325403
Yes I have on Broadway It was great!
204435
I did hear that awhile ago, but I' not sure. He was crazy the things he did, I'm surprised he isn't already dead.
133649
"A short" life?  I believe he died at 33, right?
204393
He just died actually...\n\nhere:\nhttp://www.makem.com/wwwboard/read.php?f=1&i=527&t=526
712193
The "Broadway" you are referring to is probably the one in New York City, although I am sure every town in America has a street called Broadway.  We have Broadway Avenue where I live.
438797
He died in 2003. I couldn't find a picture or bio of him though.Sorry
524576
Yes and there is a new production on Broadway now with Harry Connick Jr. as the male lead.  The musical originally debuted on Broadway in 1954 and was made in to a motion picture starring Doris Day in 1958.
1164559
Here's some more.\n\nhttp://www.yuppiepunk.org/2005/03/rock-stars-dead-at-27.html
445277
sry he died by over doss of drugs...very sad story. I love his music...he is a legend for life!
146698
He was very funny. In his younger life he worked with Andy Griffith and later he worked in three's company. He worked in many movies also. \n\nIn one movie he had just voice over. His character was a fish that finds German boats for US. I forgot the name of that movie.\n\nHe will surely be missed. RIP Don Knotts.
877503
My friend had that. \n\nI'd ask him, but he died.\n\n:)
490537
In Woody Allen's film, yes. It was the Duncan Donuts man who recently passed away.
108872
Theatre.  My favorite teacher was Thurston James who was technical director when I went to college.  He died this last September.  He loved what he did and combined work and play into the most wonderful life possible.  We all miss him.
276800
it was stated in an interview that he requested it.\nHe thought it was funnier.\nHe was on a soap opera  during the same time.\nSadly I heard that he died awhile back..
528554
I once read a statement that he and Valens were 'made', like studio bands..I think this is utter and total crap. I know he made a huge impact, and it was terrible that he died at 22. I think he would have continued with a rockabilly sound, he wasn't an activist, he just loved music. Good question!
716056
It's listed on his personal website:\nHere's his "blurb" on it.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCharles Busch and Ed Taussig\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \nI wrote this one-act during my senior year at college.  I wanted the experience of writing, directing and starring in a play and so I wrote myself a vehicle.  Actually, it was a vehicle for my best friend, Ed Taussig and I.  We had become so extraordinarily close.  We were known on campus as "Chuck 'n Ed."  I wasn't even aware that "Sister Act," a play about a pair of Siamese twin showgirls in conflict about whether or not to separate, was frankly autobiographical.  The play takes place in the dressing room of a traveling freak show.  The star attraction, the twins Hester and Esther, work out their personal and professional dilemma with the help of their colleagues, the fat woman, the bearded lady and a Swedish masseuse.\n\nWe put the play on as a midnight show in a slot where they usually showed cult movies.  Earlier in the week, Ed and I gave our first interview to a young reporter from The Daily Northwestern.  The day of the show, the campus paper came out with a lurid photo of Ed and I in our Hester and Esther drag with the headline "Decadence Reigns at Midnight Madness."  Needless to say, we were sold out.  I don't know if the play or the performance was any good but it was a watershed experience for me.  It was my first time as drag star and playwright and it felt really good.  I came away from the night with the sense that perhaps there might be a place for me in the theatre.\n\nNo rights available."