(Book Review)
Without You
By: Anthony Rapp
The book Without You is an amazing if you want to say memoir. It’s the life of one main guy by the name of Anthony Rapp. Anthony Rapp born and raised in Joliet, Illinois. Anthony moved to New York with his brother Adam to pursue his acting career. He has been acting since he was very young, he was in a movie called The Adventures of Babysitting, also when he got a bit older he was in a movie called Dazed and Confused. His work has made him quite famous his most acknowledgeable work was in a little Broadway show called RENT and also in the movie adaptation of the musical. He out of about five people was the original cast members I meaning before RENT was on Broadway when it was a workshop.
Why I picked this book well because I am so interested in the musical RENT and I finally get to hear the background of how it became so huge that it became a movie. I never knew that it was a struggle to get the musical on Broadway. It’s a book that goes into life and struggle and heartbreak, I love those kinds of books even though and can make you a bit sad at times. I found this book one day at a book store and the Anthony’s Rapp was one of my favorite actors in the movie that I had to read it and I finally got it on Christmas I was really excited.
What I liked about the book was that he went back and forth from his family to living in New York and being broke and cannot afford a lot of things. He does the transition of being a working man to being a family man very well especially when his sick and dying mother lives about a thousand miles away its cool that he shows that he can still be an actor but also when his family comes knocking he runs and tries to help them. What I don’t like is that he goes into so much detail about his private life, I mean its cool to say personal stuff but I mean going full on detail is pretty over exempt. He is an amazing writer but he really doesn’t have to go into full detail about his sexuality, it’s cool to know about someone who you are so interested in but you don’t want to know everything about that person. The book is also very sad a lot of people that he was close to die in this book.
The book goes on about how life is in a city called New York. It also goes back to his hometown of Joliet, Illinois. Anthony struggles to live and build his acting career he makes a living to go and audition for many different plays and musicals. His biggest break was when he got casted for the off Broadway more like a workshop RENT. He finally gets into some plays but his mother falls very ill again and he has to basically stop everything and fly back to Joliet and help his mother out and take care of her. He finds himself looking into himself by looking at his mother he feels that he can show emotion for the first time in his life after a family member dies. I don’t want to go on and explain the book without spoiling it. If anyone is a huge fan of RENT this is the book for you.
By: Anthony Rapp
The book Without You is an amazing if you want to say memoir. It’s the life of one main guy by the name of Anthony Rapp. Anthony Rapp born and raised in Joliet, Illinois. Anthony moved to New York with his brother Adam to pursue his acting career. He has been acting since he was very young, he was in a movie called The Adventures of Babysitting, also when he got a bit older he was in a movie called Dazed and Confused. His work has made him quite famous his most acknowledgeable work was in a little Broadway show called RENT and also in the movie adaptation of the musical. He out of about five people was the original cast members I meaning before RENT was on Broadway when it was a workshop.
Why I picked this book well because I am so interested in the musical RENT and I finally get to hear the background of how it became so huge that it became a movie. I never knew that it was a struggle to get the musical on Broadway. It’s a book that goes into life and struggle and heartbreak, I love those kinds of books even though and can make you a bit sad at times. I found this book one day at a book store and the Anthony’s Rapp was one of my favorite actors in the movie that I had to read it and I finally got it on Christmas I was really excited.
What I liked about the book was that he went back and forth from his family to living in New York and being broke and cannot afford a lot of things. He does the transition of being a working man to being a family man very well especially when his sick and dying mother lives about a thousand miles away its cool that he shows that he can still be an actor but also when his family comes knocking he runs and tries to help them. What I don’t like is that he goes into so much detail about his private life, I mean its cool to say personal stuff but I mean going full on detail is pretty over exempt. He is an amazing writer but he really doesn’t have to go into full detail about his sexuality, it’s cool to know about someone who you are so interested in but you don’t want to know everything about that person. The book is also very sad a lot of people that he was close to die in this book.
The book goes on about how life is in a city called New York. It also goes back to his hometown of Joliet, Illinois. Anthony struggles to live and build his acting career he makes a living to go and audition for many different plays and musicals. His biggest break was when he got casted for the off Broadway more like a workshop RENT. He finally gets into some plays but his mother falls very ill again and he has to basically stop everything and fly back to Joliet and help his mother out and take care of her. He finds himself looking into himself by looking at his mother he feels that he can show emotion for the first time in his life after a family member dies. I don’t want to go on and explain the book without spoiling it. If anyone is a huge fan of RENT this is the book for you.
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