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Rent (stylized in all caps) is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson. Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa, it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village, in the thriving days of the bohemian culture of Alphabet City ...
- Jonathan Larson
- Jonathan Larson
- Jonathan Larson
- January 25, 1996: New York Theatre Workshop, New York City
Jan 25, 2021 · On Jan. 25, 1996, a new rock musical by a little-known writer, Jonathan Larson, gave its first performance. Friends and family filed into a small off-Broadway theater to see Rent.The show was a ...
Nov 23, 2005 · Rent is a rock opera about a group of bohemians struggling with poverty, illness and AIDS in New York City. The film features the original Broadway cast and songs, and was directed by Chris Columbus.
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- Drama, Musical, Romance
- Chris Columbus
- 2005-11-23
Rent is a Pulitzer Prize-winning musical based on Puccini's La Boheme, set in the East Village of New York City. Find out how to license, perform and customize this show with MTI's innovative production resources and materials.
Rent is a 2005 American musical drama film directed by Chris Columbus. It is an adaptation of Jonathan Larson 's 1996 Broadway musical of the same name , in turn based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini , Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa , which is itself based on the 1851 novel Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henri Murger .
- $31.7 million
- Jonathan Larson
- $40 million
Rent is a Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical about friends and artists struggling in New York City's East Village. The show closed in 2012, but you can find tickets, news, photos and videos on Broadway.com.
Rent has become a part of us forever. The show received its world premiere off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop on February 13, 1996 to ecstatic reviews and transferred to Broadway on April 29, 1996. Rent won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Whether you’ve never seen Rent or have completely ...
