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Rent (get Rent theater tickets) is a rock musical, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. After previews that began on January 26, 1996, Rent (get Rent theater tickets) opened in New York City on February 13, 1996, at the New York Theatre Workshop before moving to Broadway, opening at the Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996 and was an instant success. It was one of the first musicals to feature bisexual, homosexual and trans-gender characters and center its plot on a hushed-up and controversial topic.
In 2005, Rent (get Rent theater tickets) was adapted into a full-length motion picture, which featured most of the original cast members. It has been revived numerous times and the music has become one of the best selling albums of all times.
Synopsis of Rent
Rent (get Rent theater tickets) is divided into 2 Acts and details the story of 8 characters struggling with the stresses of living life in a big city. A group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggle to survive and make a mark for themselves in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of the Bohemian East Village, under the shadow of AIDS.
Characters in Rent:
- Mimi Marquez - an exotic dancer with HIV
- Roger Davis - a musician who is HIV+
- Mark Cohen - a filmmaker
- Maureen Johnson - a performance artist
- Angel Dumott Schunard - a cross-dressing percussionist with AIDS
- Tom Collins - a philosophy professor and Anarchist philosopher with AIDS
- Joanne Jefferson - a lawyer
- Benjamin Coffin III - a landlord
Rent Awards
Rent has been honored with a total of 17 Awards some of which are:
- Drama Desk Award Outstanding Book
- Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
- Drama Desk Award Outstanding Orchestrations
- Drama Desk Award Outstanding Lyrics
- Drama Desk Award Outstanding Music
- Theater World Award for Outstanding New Talent
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