![]() ![]() With more than 4,300 performances, it is the seventh longest-running Broadway show, and the production has grossed over $280 million. Rent has been successful on Broadway, where it had critical acclaim and word-of-mouth popularity. ![]() ![]() On January 26, 1996, Rent opened in New York City off-broadway before moving to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996. The musical was first seen at the New York Theatre Workshop in 1994. Rent brought controversial topics to a traditionally conservative medium, and it helped to increase the popularity of musical theater among the younger generation. In addition, its cast was very ethnically diverse. Rent, which won a Tony Award for Best Musical and a Pulitzer Prize, among other awards, was one of the first Broadway musicals to feature bisexual and transgender characters. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of the Bohemian East Village, under the shadow of AIDS. Rent is a romance musical, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. This article is about the 1996 Broadway rock opera. ![]()
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