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Start of Collaboration with Bill Aronson
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End of Collaboration with Bill Aronson
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New York Theatre Workshop
- draft script
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(Spring) $45, 000 Richard Rogers Development Grant + Michael Grief on director
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(September) Casting for the first workshop begins
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(Fall) Tim Weil hired as artistic director
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(Fall) First NYTW Workshop
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Larson writes eight new songs, revises others
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(May) Lynn Thompson hired as Daramaturg
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(October) Script Finalised
Script finalised, now structured so the show is flashbacks from Angel’s funeral -
(December) Reschedule
Rent was scheduled to open but had to be pushed back to January 1996 -
(August) Casting for the production begins
Casting for the production begins lasting four months and with almost a thousand actors auditioning