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ANTHONY RAPP'S
WITHOUT YOU

Written and performed by Anthony Rapp
Directed by Steven Maler
Music Direction by Daniel A. Weiss
Lighting & Scene Design by Eric Southern
Costume Design by Angela Vesco
Sound Design by Elisabeth Weidner
Projection Design by David Bengali 
Production Stage Manager Denise Savas

Produced by Lisa Dozier Shacket, in association with Royal Family Productions.

SONG LIST 

“Losing My Religion”
“Rent”
“Carry Me Home”
“Seasons of Love”
“La Vie Boheme”
“Wild Bill”
“What You Own”
“Another Day”
“Will I”
“Rent Medley: Tune Up A/Rent/One Song Glory/La Vie Boheme/Seasons Of Love/Halloween/Finale B”
“Visits To You”
“Visits Playoff”
“That Is Not You”
“Without You”
“Seasons Of Love (Finale)” 

BIOGRAPHIES

ANTHONY RAPP (Writer/Actor) has been acting and singing professionally since he was nine years old. He is best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in Jonathan Larson's Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Rent, for which he shared an OBIE Award with the rest of the cast. He reprised his role in Chris Columbus's film version opposite other members of the original cast. Other Broadway credits include the revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation; and If/ Then; and his Broadway debut was in Precious Sons with Judith Ivey and Ed Harris, for which he received an Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama Desk nomination. Film credits include Adventures in Babysitting, School Ties, Dazed and Confused, Six Degrees of Separation, Man of the Century, Road Trip, A Beautiful Mind, bwoy, and Scrap. TV appearances include "The X-Files," "Law & Order: SVU," and "Psych." He currently plays the role of Commander Paul Stamets on the Paramount + television series "Star Trek: Discovery". In 2000, he released his debut album, Look Around, and in 2006, his NY Times-bestselling book Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent – on which this show was based – was published by Simon & Schuster.

STEVEN MALER (Director) is the Founding Artistic Director of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (CSC), where he has directed over 20 productions of Free Shakespeare on the Boston Common since 1996. Other CSC works include Naomi Wallace's Birdy, Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden, and the world premieres of Jake Broder's Our American Hamlet and Robert Brustein's The Last Will. For CSC he has directed readings of plays featuring Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Paul Rudd, Blair Brown, Anthony Mackie, Tony Shalhoub, Leslie Uggams, David Morse, and Jeffrey Donovan among many others. He conceived and directed an evening of Shakespeare scenes, songs, and soliloquies performed at Boston's iconic Fenway Park, featuring Mike O'Malley, Neal McDonough, Maryann Plunkett, Jay O. Sanders, Seth Gilliam, Zuzanna Szadkowski, and Jason Butler Harner. His feature film The Autumn Heart, starring Tyne Daly and Ally Sheedy was featured at the Sundance Film Festival.

DANIEL A. WEISS (Musical Director & Orchestration) was the associate conductor for the original Broadway productions of Rent, Taboo (Boy George), Brooklyn, Hair (Assistant Conductor), and Music Director for Duncan Sheik's Whisper House, Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown at London's The Other Palace, Let It Be (Touring Production), and Skates The Musical (Studebaker Theater, Chicago 2022). Weiss is a member of the touring group Disney On Broadway. He has composed and arranged music for Genya Ravan's Rock and Roll Refugee, Happily After Tonight (Mateo Moreno), and together with Anthony Rapp wrote and arranged songs for the show Dedalus Lounge by playwright Gary Duggan. Artist Tours include Let It Be, Joan Osborne, Disney On Broadway, Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Jeffrey Gaines, Alexis P Suter, and Slam Alan. Most recently he recorded Hammond organ for the Goo Goo Dolls upcoming album release and scored two movies: the romcom Ageless Love and a documentary featuring photography by Bev Grant.

DENISE SAVAS (Production Stage Manager) Off-Broadway: White Rose: The Musical, Without You. Circus: Teatro Zinzanni, Cabaret Zazou. Regional companies: Theatre Wit, Northbrook Theatre, Shattered Globe, terraNOVA Collective, Emerald City Theatre, Provisions Theatre and Collaboraction. Recently: Denise produced a feature documentary for Springhill Company and assisted on the Lollapalooza 2023 Hulu livestream. She also produces podcasts for Pinterest and Bridgespan and uses her creative skill as an art director and production stylist for brands like Live Nation and Showtime.

LISA DOZIER SHACKET (Producer) founded the theatrical general management firm LDK Productions in 2007. Current/recent: The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers, White Rose: The Musical, Anthony Rapp’s Without You, Emergence: Things Are Not As They Seem, The Night of the Iguana, Eisenhower, Little Girl Blue, Katsura Sunshine’s Rakugo, Be More Chill, the immersive theatrical adaptation of the film Sideways, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, A Letter to Harvey Milk. Lisa was the general manager of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals for 11 years and was also the founding producing director of the regional theatre Miami New Drama. She is currently the professor of theatre management at the University of Florida. Love to her husband Mark & the 5: Hana, Noah, Maddy, Cole & Emmy.

ROYAL FAMILY PRODUCTIONS (Producer). Established in 2007. Highlights include Genya Ravan’s Rock and Roll Refugee; John Cariani’s Love/Sick (premiere); Anne of Green Gables: Part 1 starring Ali Ewoldt; Sean Cullen’s Safe Home (world premiere); Women on Fire: Stories From the Frontlines and Scorching the Dividing Lines featuring Kathleen Chalfant, Maddie Corman, Andréa Burns, Adriane Lenox, Julie Halston, Stephanie J. Block, Adrienne C. Moore, Mary Testa, Maryann Plunkett, Ashley Williams, etc. Development productions include Keenan Scott II’s Thoughts of a Colored Man, Ayodele Casel’s Diary of a Tap Dancer V.4 and Anthony Rapp’s Without You (NYMF). IG: RoyalFamilyProductions

LDK PRODUCTIONS (General Manager) is an NYC-based theatrical general management and producing firm founded in 2007. Select recent/ upcoming credits: The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers, White Rose: The Musical, The Night of the Iguana directed by Emily Mann, Patrick Olson Emergence: Things Are Not As They Seem, Anthony Rapp’s Without You, Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground, Little Girl Blue, Katsura Sunshine’s Rakugo, Be More Chill, the immersive theatrical adaptation of the film Sideways, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, A Letter to Harvey Milk. LDKProductions.com

ADDITIONAL CREDITS

Select photographs provided by Joan Marcus and Victoria Leacock Hoffman.

 

MUSIC CREDITS

“ANOTHER DAY” written by Jonathan Larson. Rights controlled by Universal. “ANOTHER DAY REPRISE (UNDERSCORE)”  written by Jonathan Larson. Rights controlled by Universal. “BREATHE” written by Jonathan Larson, orchestration and arrangement by Daniel A. Weiss. “CARRY ME HOME” music by Anthony Rapp and David Matos, lyrics by Anthony Rapp. “CARRY ME HOME (UNDERSCORE)”  written by Anthony Rapp, orchestration and arrangement by Daniel A. Weiss. “COUNTRY LIFE A” written by Daniel A. Weiss and Tom Kit. “DEAR MOTHER” written by Daniel A. Weiss. “DEAR MOTHER C” written by Daniel A. Weiss and Tom Kit. “GREATEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE” music by Daniel A. Weiss. “HALLOWEEN” written by Jonathan Larson, orchestration and arrangement by Daniel A. Weiss. “INTRO TO RELIGION” written by Jonathan Larson, orchestration and arrangement by Daniel A. Weiss. “LA VIE BOHEME” written by Jonathan Larson. Rights controlled by Universal. “LEAVE THE PAST BEHIND” written by Jonathan Larson, orchestration and arrangement by Daniel A. Weiss. “LOSING MY RELIGION” written by REM. Rights controlled by Universal. “RENT MEDLEY” written by Jonathan Larson. Rights controlled by Universal. Arrangement by Daniel A. Weiss and Tom Kit. “PHONE CALL” written by Daniel A. Weiss. “RENT REHEARSAL” written by Jonathan Larson,orchestration and arrangement by Daniel A.Weiss. “SEASONS INTRO” written by Jonathan Larson, orchestration and arrangement by Daniel A. Weiss. “SEASONS OF LOVE” written by Jonathan Larson. Rights controlled by Universal. “SEASONS REHEARSAL” written by Jonathan Larson, orchestration and arrangement by Daniel A. Weiss. “SPANGLES OF LIGHT” music by Anthony Rapp and Daniel A. Weiss, Adapted from a letter by Mary Rapp. “THAT IS NOT YOU” music by Anthony Rapp and David Matos, lyrics by Anthony Rapp. “TIME FLIES” written by Jonathan Larson, orchestration and arrangement by Daniel A. Weiss. “VISITS SCENE MUSIC” music by Anthony Rapp and David Matos,orchestration and arrangement by Daniel A. Weiss. “VISITS TO YOU” music by Anthony Rapp and Joe Pisapia, lyrics by Anthony Rapp. “WE’LL DO OUR BEST” written by Daniel A. Weiss. “WHAT YOU OWN” written by Jonathan Larson. Rights controlled by Universal. “WHAT YOU OWN A”  written by Jonathan Larson, orchestration and arrangement by Daniel A. Weiss. “WHAT YOU OWN B” written by Jonathan Larson, orchestration and arrangement by Daniel A. Weiss. “WHAT YOU OWN C” written by Jonathan Larson, orchestration and arrangement by Daniel A. Weiss. “WILD BILL” music by Anthony Rapp and David Matos, lyrics by Anthony Rapp. “WILL I” written by Jonathan Larson. Rights controlled by Universal. “WITHOUT YOU” written by Jonathan Larson. Rights controlled by Universal.