Rent (musical) Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Rent is a Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock opera, based upon the opera "La Bohème". Rent opened in New York City on April 29, 1996 at the Nederlander Theater. The musical centers around a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive in New York's Alphabet City neighborhood under the shadow of AIDS. (In the opera, the disease was tuberculosis).

The score included the songs "Seasons of Love", "Rent", "One Song Glory", "Light My Candle", "Tango: Maureen", "I'll Cover You", "Without You", "La Vie Boheme" and "Santa Fe." The resulting cast album from the show was the most successful recording of an American musical in almost 30 years.

The musical was conceived by Jonathan Larson, a 35-year-old composer who died from an undiagnosed dissecting aortic aneurysm on January 25, 1996, just nineteen days before the musical made its debut at the New York Theatre Workshop. It is believed that the defect resulted from Marfan syndrome.

The original cast, as appeared in the Broadway production from April 16, 1996 through opening night and a little after, and the album recording, was as follows:

• Taye Diggs - Benjamin "Benny" Coffin III
• Wilson Jermaine Heredia - Angel Dumott Schunard
• Jesse L. Martin - Tom Collins
• Idina Menzel - Maureen Johnson
• Adam Pascal - Roger Davis
• Anthony Rapp - Mark Cohen
• Daphne Rubin-Vega - Mimi Marquez
• Fredi Walker - Joanne Jefferson
• Gilles Chiasson - Steve and others, Mark and Roger understudy
• Rodney Hicks - Paul and others, Benny understudy
• Kristen Lee Kelly - Mark's mom and others, Maureen understudy
• Aiko Nakasone - Alexi Darling and others
• Timothy Britten Parker - Gordon and others
• Gwen Stewart - Mrs. Jefferson and others
• Byron Utley - Mr. Jefferson and others, Collins understudy
• Yassmin Alers (Maureen and Mimi understudy), Darius de Haas (Angel, Collins, and Benny understudy), Shelley Dickinson (Joanne understudy), David Driver (Mark and Roger understudy), Mark Setlock (Angel understudy), Simone (Joanne and Mimi understudy) - swings

The musical Rent was parodied in the 2004 movie . At the time he was recruited to join Team America, the protagonist in that movie was starring in a musical called Lease. The chorus of Lease's grand finale was "Everyone Has AIDS!"

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