Rent
Musical
Dinner With Rapp and Pascal? Rent Tour Begins Auction for BC/EFAAnthony Rapp and Adam Pascal in Rent. The touring company of Rent is offering fans a chance to bid on show-related items in an online auction that will raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Up for auction are dinner with... In this article: Rent, Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, AIDS, EBay, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Orlando, FL, Actors' Fund, Twitter, and Facebook |
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PR Newswire | 3 days ago
BET.com Launches Its First Web Series 'BUPPIES' Starring Tatyana Ali on Tuesday November 24th
...acting career straddles television and theater starting with recurring roles on NBC's hit A Different World and the Broadway production of Rent. She was most recently been seen in the San Diego Musical Theater production of Dreamgirls. About...
In this article: Tatyana Ali, BET, The Young and the Restless, HBO, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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The Australian | 4 days ago
RENT is Coming to Auckland
...running musicals on Broadway and now it's coming to Auckland. Bookings: THE EDGE 09) 357 3355 or 0800 BUY TICKETS (0800 289 842) RENT is a revolutionary modern rock opera, updating Puccini's classic "La Boheme", and is widely...
In this article: Auckland, The Edge, La boheme, Rolling Stone magazine, and New York City
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Las Vegas Review Journal | 6 days ago
Reporter's Notebook
...50-Foot Woman." ALAN CHOATE TALK ABOUT ADULT THEMES. A hearing on whether Green Valley High School students could perform the plays "Rent" and "The Laramie Project" featured a reference to a pornographic "classic." District Judge David...
In this article: Aesthetics, Green Valley High School, Clark High School, American Civil Liberties Union, The Laramie Project, and Debbie Does Dallas
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Las Vegas Review Journal | November 12, 2009
CORRECTIONS
...name as the District Court judge who denied a request for a preliminary injunction to stop Green Valley High School's productions of "Rent" and "The Laramie Project," which contain content some parents found objectionable. The Saluting...
In this article: Preliminary injunction, Green Valley High School, The Laramie Project, and Nevada
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San Diego Union-Tribune | November 10, 2009
Judge refuses to block school theater productions
...judge has refused to block a Henderson high school theater class from performing "The Laramie Project" this weekend and the musical "Rent" early next year. Clark County District Court Judge David Wall ruled Tuesday that participation and...
In this article: University of Connecticut football, Green Valley High School, AIDS, Fitch Ratings, Sun Microsystems Inc., and Oracle Corp
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washingtonpost.com | November 08, 2009
NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman's Peoria arts adventure
Peoria artist Lonnie Stewart's model of a sculptural slave memorial? "Powerful!" And how about those plucky kids in the production of "Rent" over at Eastlight Theatre? "I'm having a good time!" Landesman reports at intermission in the...
In this article: St. Louis, New York City, East Peoria High School, and Bye Bye Birdie
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Denver Post Entertainment | November 06, 2009
Review: Fort Collins' Carousel rocks an intimate Rent
Review: Fort Collins' Carousel rocks an intimate "Rent" Images from the Carousel Dinner Theatre's "Rent." Photos courtesy Ryane Nicole Studivant. The Carousel Dinner Theatre has done some capable work in its 15 years. But there is nothing...
In this article: AIDS, Fort Collins, Boulder, and Colorado
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The Salt Lake Tribune | November 02, 2009
Take 'Rent' to heart
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Winston-Salem Journal | October 24, 2009
Theatre Alliance's fine production of Rent will bring joy, lift spirits
...disease and artistic pursuits that touch the lives of this band of nonconformers who can't or won't pay their rent. Set in the 1990s, Rent mirrors the times when AIDS ravaged the city. Heroes were frequently found among the dying, and the...
In this article: Broadway, New York, AIDS, La boheme, and Jonathan Larson
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The O.C. Register | October 21, 2009
Instructor calls retaliation after 'Rent' lawsuit settlement
The cast in Corona del Mar High School's production of "Rent" sing during a rehearsal at the school earlier this year. LEONARD ORTIZ, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER NEWPORT BEACH A drama instructor who accused his school's principal of...
In this article: Corona del Mar High School, Plaintiff, E mail, and American Civil Liberties Union
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Rent is a rock musical, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of the Bohemian East Village, under the shadow of AIDS.
Rent won a Tony Award for Best Musical and a Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. In addition, its cast was unusually ethnically diverse. Rent brought controversial topics to a traditionally conservative medium, and it helped to increase the popularity of musical theater amongst the younger generation. "Rent speaks to Generation X the way that the musical Hair spoke to the baby boomers or those who grew up in the 1960s, calling it "a rock opera for our time, a Hair for the 90s."
The musical was first seen in a limited two-week workshop run at the New York Theatre Workshop in 1994. This same New York City off-Broadway theatre was also the initial home following its official January 26, 1996 opening, before a move to Broadway's larger Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996. Rent has been successful on Broadway, where it had critical acclaim and word-of-mouth popularity. The Broadway production of Rent closed on September 7, 2008 after a 12 year run and 5,124 performances, making it the seventh-longest-running Broadway show. The production has grossed over $280 million. At the time of its closing, it was the second-longest-running musical currently on Broadway, eight years behind The Phantom of the Opera.
- Name:
- Rent
- Music By:
- Jonathan Larson
- Productions:
- 1998 Australian
- Awards:
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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