A review by kerryanndunn
Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent by Anthony Rapp

3.0

I'd give the first half of this book 5 stars. In that half of the book, Anthony Rapp, as an original original original cast member of Rent, chronicles that wonderful piece of theater from workshop beginnings to Broadway success. That part of the book soars. But once the focus leaves Rent and he begins to instead chronicle every sexual encounter and boyfriend he's had since adolescence, this memoir becomes tedious. Then it devolves further in his inability to handle his mother's death and his many irrational fights with his then boyfriend. In fact he comes off as an asshole. I'm glad he eventually started seeing a therapist because he needed it. That lackluster second half is what caused this book to end up as just 3 stars for me.