Rent Musical - Mahalo

Rent is a rock musical written by Jonathan Larson and based on Giacomo Puccini's Opera [[La bohème]].
Since opening in 1996, it has had several West End productions, U.K. and North American tours and was adapted into a feature length film in 2005. Rent is one of the longest-running shows in Broadway history.
1. Music: Jonathan Larson
2. Lyrics: Jonathan Larson
3. Book: Jonathan Larson
4. Based upon Giacomo Puccini's Opera [[La bohème]]
5. Fans who are obsessed with the musical are called RENT-heads
Characters
- Mimi Marquez: an exotic dancer with HIV
- Roger Davis: a musician who is HIV positive
- Mark Cohen: a filmmaker
- Maureen Johnson: a bisexual performance artist
- Angel Dumott Schunard: a cross-dressing percussionist with AIDS
- Tom Collins: a homosexual philosophy professor and Anarchist philosopher with AIDS
- Joanne Jefferson: a lawyer and a lesbian (Also partially based on Marcello)
- Benjamin 'Benny' Coffin III: the landlord
Productions
- 1996: New York Theatre Workshop
- 1996: Broadway
- 1996 and 1997: North American Tours
- 1998: West End
- 1998: Australian
- 2001: U.K. Tour
- 2003: U.K. Tour
- 2003: West End
- 2007: South African Tour
- 2007: West End
Awards
- Tony Awards in 1996 (4): Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score and Best Performance by a Featured Actor
- Pulitzer Prize (1996) for Drama

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