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It is a rare treat to see a major Broadway performer in concert during a pandemic, and in Layton, Utah, no less. Original RENT and AIDA star Adam Pascal appeared at Layton High School on Sat. Jan. 23, 2021 to provide increasingly important aid for live theatre and education in a fundraising concert for On Pitch Performing Arts (OPPA!) and the high school s Drama Department.
Adam Pascal s powerful pipes and unique rock sound rang through the rafters, proving why there is no one else like him. He accompanied himself on electric or acoustic guitar throughout the two-act set, in which he provided an intimate, introspective look at his career.
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Into Broadway s creative vacuum of revivals, movie adaptations, and Hollywood star vehicles comes Rent, the story of squatters, junkies, performance artists, struggling musicians, drag queens, aspiring filmmakers, and HIV-positives (and you thought Miss Saigon s helicopter landing was cool). Undoubtedly among the defining pop cultural events of 1996, Rent has already won four Tony awards and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. More importantly, it threatens to bring substance back to the Great White Way. Transposing Puccini s 100-year-old opera La Bohème into modern day Bohemia (19th-century Paris s Left Bank becomes late-20th-century New York s East Village where the scourge of tuberculosis becomes the plague of AIDS) Rent celebrates life among the young, sick, and unconventional. While Broadway shows are hardly the place for authentic portrayals of the latest marginalized hipsters, composer Jonathan Larson (who died at age 36, days before his musical opened) managed to sculpt
Broadway s Rent Premiered 25 Years Ago Today, Hours After Its Creator Jonathan Larson s Sudden Death
One of the most beloved musicals in Broadway history,
Rent, premiered to a small group of theatergoers in the East Village of New York City 25 years ago today, the opening performance coming just hours after its creator Jonathan Larson s tragic death from an aortic aneurysm.
Rent would go on to win both a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, reported
NPR. It was the brainchild of Larson, who created the score for a play that would become a touchstone for a generation that dealt with the onset of the AIDS epidemic. It also displayed loving relationships between same-sex couples and how friends can become one s chosen family, all set to a rock n roll score.
On Jan. 25, 1996, a new rock musical by a little-known writer, Jonathan Larson, gave its first performance. But that show almost didn t happen: Larson died of an aortic aneurysm early that morning.