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10:45 pm - 01/15/2008
more (but not much more) on rent closing
Broadway's Rent Will Close in June
By Andrew Gans
16 Jan 2008
Original Rent stars Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal (seen here in their recent return engagement).
photo by Joan Marcus
The Broadway production of Rent will end its award-winning run at the Nederlander Theatre in June.
The Jonathan Larson musical will play its final performance June 1, according to The New York Times. The musical is the seventh-longest-running show in Broadway history.
Rent, written by Jonathan Larson and directed by Michael Greif, opened at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996, following a sold out, extended limited engagement at Off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop.
Lyricist-librettist-composer Larson died of an undiagnosed heart ailment on the eve of the first downtown performance. He would not see the musical go on to win every major best musical award, including the Tony Award, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
The production launched the careers of Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp and Daphne Rubin-Vega.
The original cast members also included Gilles Chiasson, Rodney Hicks, Kristen Lee Kelly, Aiko Nakasone, Timothy Britten Parker, Gwen Stewart, Byron Utley and Fredi Walker-Browne.
The Nederlander Theatre is located at 208 West 41st Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Performances play Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday at 8 PM, Saturday at 2 PM & 8 PM, and Sunday at 2 PM & 7 PM.
Tickets may be purchased by visiting ticketmaster.com or by phoning TicketMaster at (212) 307-4100.
Source.
By Andrew Gans
16 Jan 2008
Original Rent stars Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal (seen here in their recent return engagement).
photo by Joan Marcus
The Broadway production of Rent will end its award-winning run at the Nederlander Theatre in June.
The Jonathan Larson musical will play its final performance June 1, according to The New York Times. The musical is the seventh-longest-running show in Broadway history.
Rent, written by Jonathan Larson and directed by Michael Greif, opened at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996, following a sold out, extended limited engagement at Off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop.
Lyricist-librettist-composer Larson died of an undiagnosed heart ailment on the eve of the first downtown performance. He would not see the musical go on to win every major best musical award, including the Tony Award, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
The production launched the careers of Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp and Daphne Rubin-Vega.
The original cast members also included Gilles Chiasson, Rodney Hicks, Kristen Lee Kelly, Aiko Nakasone, Timothy Britten Parker, Gwen Stewart, Byron Utley and Fredi Walker-Browne.
The Nederlander Theatre is located at 208 West 41st Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Performances play Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday at 8 PM, Saturday at 2 PM & 8 PM, and Sunday at 2 PM & 7 PM.
Tickets may be purchased by visiting ticketmaster.com or by phoning TicketMaster at (212) 307-4100.
Source.
December 24th, 9PM Eastern Standard Time.
I'm just bitter. Everyone at my school lives by this thing.
I never saw the play, but it took me three nights to get through the movie.
They're all defiantly singing cuz they're BOHEMIAN, and the BIG BAD MAN is making them PAY THEIR RENT, and I'm all like, FUCK YOU. GET A REAL JOB INSTEAD OF SINGING ABOUT YOUR INDIVIDUALITY. PAY YOUR GODDAMN RENT. IT'S WHAT PEOPLE HAVE TO DO. Jeez.
I dunno. Maybe something was lost in translation. But I seriously doubt it.
Even so, whenever I'm channel-surfing, and the movie is on Starz, I always have to stop and watch five minutes of it. It's like a trainwreck.
That being said, Mark does try to get a job when Benny makes them pay.
If you can please see the play, it's MUCH better than the movie.
I don't know if it's just nostalgia, or that whole mythical aspect surrounding the creation of Rent, but the music just speaks to me. It's so New York City and so high energy and moving. If you've sat in the theatre and listed to One Song Glory with Roger's shadow cast on the back wall of the sparse/metallic set and you DIDN'T get goosebumps, surely you are not human! Who hasn't fallen in love with Rent just a wee bit after Light My Candle? La Vie Boheme is a pure masterpiece. Out Tonight is just the epitome of NYC, to me. And Seasons of Love, of course.
Anyway, I'm sad it'll just fade into Broadway history and community theatre now. I would've loved to see it one more time on Broadway.
rent is not "so" NYC. it's "so" 1990s, incredibly outdated.
i wish they would bring cats back. isnt that closed? that is something i would want to see.
maybe equus will take its place at that theatre!
Rent >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
BTW, saw cats when it was at it's peak....it sucked!
Ugh, watching Adam Pascal (who was my first Broadway crush, btw) skip through the desert with Bon Jovi hair was definitely not one of the high points of his career.
20-year-old bohemians are understandable. They're young and naive.
But when you're 35 and still bitching because someone asked you to actually pay rent, you need to STFU.