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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 .
After Larson's death in 1996, Leacock asked David Auburn, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof, to reconfigure Tick, Tick... Boom! . He restructured the monologue into a three-actor musical, [ 3 ] with one actor playing Jon and the other two actors playing Michael and Susan, as well as all the other roles in the show.
Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown.The musical is a dramatization of the 1913 trial and imprisonment, and 1915 lynching, of Jewish American Leo Frank in Georgia.
In 1899, Christian arrives at the Montmartre district of Paris from Lima, Ohio, where he meets bohemians Toulouse-Lautrec and Santiago, who are attempting to create a play with songs in it. The two are impressed by Christian's musical and songwriting talents and ask for help to get their work produced at the Moulin Rouge.
A Strange Loop is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson, and winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [1] First produced off-Broadway in 2019, then staged in Washington, D.C. in 2021, [2] A Strange Loop premiered on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre in April 2022.
Veronica's Room is a theatrical play by Ira Levin (an author best known for Rosemary's Baby), originally mounted in 1973.Because identifying the characters by name would spoil the plot of the play for audience members, printed programs normally identify the four characters as Woman, Man, Girl, and Young Man, [1] which are also the names used for them in the script.
A Broadway transfer of the 2018 West End revival opened December 9, 2021, to broad acclaim. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] [ 61 ] Marianne Elliott once again directed, [ 58 ] and Patti LuPone reprised her role as Joanne, with Katrina Lenk as Bobbie, [ 62 ] choreography by Liam Steel, music supervision and direction by Joel Fram, scenic and costume designs by ...