'Rent' Musical Celebrates Its 30th Broadway Anniversary with a Starry Show: 'No Day but Today'
Original cast members and Broadway stars reunite for a benefit performance, with $30 livestream tickets supporting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
- On Monday, the landmark rock musical Rent celebrated its 30th anniversary with a star-studded benefit performance at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York.
- Created by Jonathan Larson, the show drew inspiration from Puccini's Boheme to depict life in the AIDS-plagued East Village of the early 1990s.
- Original cast members including Anthony Rapp, Tony-winner Idina Menzel, and Tony-nominee Adam Pascal returned to their roles, joining an ensemble of Broadway stars.
- Proceeds from the event support Broadway Cares and Equity Fights AIDS, while $30 livestream tickets remain available for 24 hours following the performance.
- After running for 12 years and more than 5,000 performances, Rapp noted the show broke down barriers for contemporary musicals like Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen.
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‘Rent’ musical celebrates its 30th Broadway anniversary with a starry show: ‘No day but today’ – WTOP News
NEW YORK (AP) — Jordan Fisher was in middle school when he first heard it. He was at his first cast party, gathering with fellow performers around his drama teacher’s piano after some community theater. The song everyone was singing was about living life and measuring life, and there were a bunch of weird numbers — like 525,600. He wouldn’t be the same after hearing it. “I was like, ‘What is this?’” recalls Fisher. “That shifted things for me. I…
'Rent' musical celebrates its 30th Broadway anniversary with
FILE - The cast of the film Rent, from left, Taye Diggs, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Jesse Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Anthony Rapp, Idina Menzel, and Tracie Thoms, pose for a on a film set in San Francisco on May 27, 2005. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
New York Series: “La Vie Bohème” from ‘RENT’
Thirty years ago, playwright and composer Jonathan Larson’s magnum opus RENT debuted at the Nederlander Theatre just weeks after his untimely death. Inspired by Giacomo Puccini’s opera La bohème, the musical tells the story of struggling artists living in Manhattan’s East Village during the AIDS epidemic. The emotional story contains many outstanding songs, but “La […]
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