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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 ...
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.
Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway is a 2008 film of the final performance of the original Broadway production of the musical Rent on September 7, 2008, with some footage of the closing night celebration. The film had a limited theatrical release between September 24 and 28, 2008, in more than 500 theaters with high definition digital projection ...
Rent: Live is an American television special that was broadcast by Fox on January 27, 2019. It is a partially live [a] production of the 1996 Tony Award-winning musical Rent, which 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 Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
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.
Less than three years after Rent closed on Broadway, the show was revived Off-Broadway at Stage 1 of New World Stages just outside the Theater District. The show was directed by Michael Greif, who had directed the original productions. The show began previews on July 14, 2011, and opened August 11, 2011.
The following is a list of works of musical theatre that have been notably filmed live on stage, also known as professionally shot musicals or, colloquially, proshot musicals. [1] Musicals are listed by the year they were filmed, not necessarily by the year they were first broadcast or released to the public.
In the original 1996 Broadway production, the song was performed by Idina Menzel as Maureen and Fredi Walker as Joanne. [1] Rent is inspired by the opera La Boheme, and the lyrics of the first verse of "Take Me or Leave Me" are based on that of the La Boheme aria "Quando m'en vo'". [2] [3]