Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about the future paths of musical theater so you don't have to.

I'm Renata.

And I'm Kate.

And for this episode, we read, Without You, a memoir of

Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent by Anthony Rapp. Joining us to discuss this messy memoir is

the spectral presence of Jonathan Larson. No day but today. Yeah. Oh, and also Dorda is here, of course. Yes, yes. Uh, okay, so for starters,

I guess content warning for like cancer, death of a parent, sexual assault, questionable sexual things?

I don't even know.

Yeah.

We'll go at that.

I think that's it.

And then just a general warning.

Kay and I are having a rough time right now for separate reasons. We're just, we're just having a tough time. And we were like, maybe we could take a break and

like skip an episode. And oh my God'rarte and dorte was like no

you can't skip an episode you have to podcast mother and so we were like okay what if we what if we

like sort of cheat and just read this book but use it mostly as an excuse to just, like, talk about rent

and, like, our memories of the 90s. And then we were like, yeah, no one, no one can stop us

from doing that, except maybe, but we're trying very hard.

Oh, my God. You a little rascal.

Anyway, so if you don't care about running, you don't care about musical theater, like,

just let us have this one.

Just move on.

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