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Rent (stylized in all caps) is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson. [1] 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 ...
"Seasons of Love" is a song from the 1996 Broadway musical Rent, written and composed by Jonathan Larson. The song starts with an ostinato piano motif, which provides the harmonic framework for the cast to sing "Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes" (the number of minutes in a common year). The main instruments used throughout ...
"Take Me or Leave Me" is a song from the musical Rent, written by American composer Jonathan Larson. In the original 1996 Broadway production, the song was performed by Idina Menzel as Maureen and Fredi Walker as Joanne.
NEW YORK — “Rent” alum Anthony Rapp is giving fans of the iconic musical — about friends contending with life amid the AIDS epidemic in early 1990s New York City — a peek behind the curtain.
"La Vie Bohème" (French: The Bohemian Life) is a song from the 1996 musical Rent. It is a celebration of bohemianism, especially the type present in 1980s Alphabet City, Manhattan, which begins with a mocking of the character Benny's statement that "Bohemia is dead". [1]
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Rent was covered by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine and was included as a B-side for their single R.u.b.b.i.s.h, and was later included in their compilation album This is the Sound of an Electric Guitar. The song is also featured as a live version by Suede, as a B-side on their single "Filmstar" from 1997 (Nude Records - NUD 30CD2), with ...
The documentary "Revolution Rent" currently on HBO Max explores director Andy Señor's historic production of the Broadway musical "Rent" in Cuba in 2014.