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| Rent | |
| Original Broadway Windowcard | |
|---|---|
| Music | Jonathan Larson |
| Lyrics | Jonathan Larson |
| Book | Jonathan Larson |
| Based upon | Giacomo Puccini's Opera La bohème |
| Productions | 1996 New York Theatre Workshop 1996 Broadway 1996 U.S. tour 1997 North American tour 1998 West End 1998 Australian 2001 U.K. Tour 2003 U.K. Tour 2003 West End 2007 South African tour 2007 West End 2007 Australia Major productions worldwide |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Drama Tony Award for Best Musical Tony Award for Best Book Tony Award for Best Score Drama Desk Outstanding Musical Drama Desk for Outstanding Book |
Rent is a rock musical, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. The musical tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Alphabet City in the thriving days of the Bohemian East Village, under the shadow of AIDS.
Rent, which won an American Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize, was one of the first Broadway musicals to feature lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender characters. In addition, its cast was noticeably 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."
After previews that began on January 26, 1996, Rent 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. The cast album includes both a double-disc "complete recording" collection with a remixed version of the song "Seasons of Love" featuring Stevie Wonder and a single-disc "best of" highlights.
Rent has been successful on Broadway, where it had critical acclaim and word-of-mouth popularity. The Original Broadway Cast reunited at the Nederlander Theatre on April 24, 2006, to stage a performance for the rock opera's tenth anniversary. With more than 4,300 performances and still running, it is the seventh-longest-running Broadway show. It became the second-longest-running musical currently on Broadway when Beauty and the Beast ended its run on July 29, 2007. It is still eight years behind The Phantom of the Opera, the longest-running musical in Broadway history, which is still running.
In 2005, the rock opera was also adapted into a full-length motion picture, which features most of the original cast members. Certain plot elements were changed slightly and some of the songs were changed to spoken dialogue, so the movie version is more of a musical film than rock opera.