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RENT is a rock musical based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La boheme. It tells the story of a group of impoverished artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York City's
Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
The musical was first seen in a limited three-week workshop production at New York Theatre Workshop in 1994. This same off-Broadway theater was also the musical's initial home, following its official January 25, 1996, opening. The show's creator, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly the night before the off-Broadway premiere. The show won a Pulitzer Prize, and the production was a hit. The musical moved to Broadway's larger Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996. The Broadway production closed on September 7, 2008, after a 12-year run of 5,123 performances, the ninth longest-running Broadway show at the time. In 2005, it was adapted into a motion picture that features most of the original cast members.
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RENT
is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International(MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
423 West 55th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684
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