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Amazon.com 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-cent...

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 onse...