Editing Jonathan Larson (section)

==Personal life==
In college, Larson dated Victoria Leacock.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.marieclaire.com.au/tick-tick-boom-netflix-true-story | title=The Tragic True Story Behind Netflix's New Musical, 'Tick Tick... Boom!' | first=Jess | last=Pullar | work=[[Marie Claire]] | date=November 22, 2021 | access-date=April 2, 2022 | archive-date=April 22, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422051527/https://www.marieclaire.com.au/tick-tick-boom-netflix-true-story | url-status=live }}</ref> He also dated a dancer for four years who sometimes left him for other men, though she eventually left him for a woman. These experiences influenced the autobiographical aspects of ''Rent''.

Larson lived and died in a [[loft]] with no heat on the fourth floor of 508 Greenwich Street, on the corner of [[Greenwich Street]] and [[Spring Street (Manhattan)|Spring Street]] in [[Lower Manhattan]]. He lived with various roommates over the years, including Greg Beals, a journalist for ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine and the brother of actress [[Jennifer Beals]]. For a while, he and his roommates kept an illegal [[wood-burning stove]] because of lack of heat in their building.

From the spring of 1985, when he was 25 years old, until October 21, 1995, when he quit since ''Rent'' was being produced by the [[New York Theatre Workshop]], Larson worked as a waiter at the [[Moondance Diner]] on the weekends and worked on composing and writing musicals during the week. Many people came to the diner to meet Larson. He was involved in writing the employee manual.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2021/11/waiting-with-jonathan-larson/ | title=Waiting with Jonathan Larson | first=Morgen | last=Stevens-Garmon | work=[[Library of Congress]] | date=November 23, 2021 | access-date=April 2, 2022 | archive-date=May 22, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522102939/https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2021/11/waiting-with-jonathan-larson/ | url-status=live }}</ref> At the diner, Larson met [[Jesse L. Martin]], who was his waiting trainee and later performed the role of Tom Collins in the original cast of Larson's ''Rent''.