A new musical revue, The Jonathan Larson Project, at the Orpheum Theater on Second Avenue is proof of a simple fact: there’s never enough Jonathan Larson. Sure, opening night was a fan fest, with many having sampled the work the writer/ composer left behind after his truly untimely death on the eve of his Rent’s downtown debut. Now assembled for its own entertaining evening, conceived by Jennifer Ashley Tepper, his compositions remind us all of his awesome talent.

“Not a word has been changed,” says the program. His lyrics remain topical, whimsical, pure joy. A standout was Lauren Marcus’ hilarious romp around the stage, hose in hand for “Hosing the Furniture.” Larson had contributed the song for a 1989 revue about the 1939 World’s Fair, imagining the future. According to the notes, Larson knew Stephen Sondheim would be there at the premiere. Working hard, he won the Stephen Sondheim Award. The number comes close to a forgotten American musical genre, the art song. Silly and fun, it hearkens back to an era, to a lyric like Paul Bowles’ “the best part of a picnic are the napkins.”

Larson’s “Casual Sex, Pizza, and Beer” had been written on “a junky spinet piano with missing keys that he found on the street and rolled into his first apartment.” In performance, the ensemble featuring Adam Chanler-Berat, Taylor Iman Jones, Andy Mientus, Jason Tam, and Marcus makes the song a youthful, raucous anthem. Echoes of Rent abound. Bittersweet hints of the show’s various permutations, making it to Broadway and beyond were noted, all limned in the hit 2021 movie, “Tick Tick . . . Boom” with Andrew Garfield as Larson.

Larson’s family, sister Julie, and her sons, Mike and Dylan who both have musical theater careers, came in from California for opening night. As her brother was coming-of-age, Julie said, the family recognized how good his lyrics were and hoped that he would get the recognition. At Downtown Social, Adam Rapp, who performed in the original Rent and the movie, and Roger Bart, longtime Larson pal back in the day, posed for pictures as the roomful of producers—many were devotees of 54 Below who contributed– snacked on the comforts of chicken skewers, cocktail franks, latkes. And immense nostalgia loomed for Jonathan Larson as his work returns downtown to where his fame began.