Jeffrey Seller

And I had given huge praise to Jonathan after the show, saying, you did it.

You made the show.

It's great.

He was happy to hear that praise, and he described that he wasn't feeling well to me.

But that morning after, so I woke up, I was like, you know, I was picking out what sweater do I want to wear tonight, what clothes.

And after I went to my own therapy appointment, I took the R train to the office.

And when I got there, everybody's head was down.

And my own general manager said, Jeffrey, I have something terrible to tell you.

Jonathan Larson died last night.

And I...

I was in shock, and then I was immediately struck by the fact that, holy, he wrote his own life and he wrote his own death.

This is a man who wrote the song for Roger, One Song Glory, One Song Before I Go.

And I thought, did he know he was going to die?

I thought, did he know he was going to die?

I was... Maybe I wasn't shocked.

Maybe it all made its own dramatic sense.

But I was sad.

And I was crushed.

And I also somehow knew in that moment he would become a legend.

Yeah.