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  2. Rent (musical) - Wikipedia

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    Rent (stylized in all caps) is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson. [1] Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa, it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village, in the thriving days of the bohemian culture of Alphabet City ...

  3. Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway - Wikipedia

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    Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway is a 2008 film of the final performance of the original Broadway production of the musical Rent on September 7, 2008, with some footage of the closing night celebration. The film had a limited theatrical release between September 24 and 28, 2008, in more than 500 theaters with high definition digital projection ...

  4. Rent (albums) - Wikipedia

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    Rent (Original Broadway Cast Recording) is an album of music from the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning 1996 musical Rent. It is produced by DreamWorks with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson. The album is a 2-disc (in its CD format) collection of every song from the musical; some small segments of narration and spoken dialogue from the ...

  5. Daphne Rubin-Vega - Wikipedia

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    Daphne Rubin-Vega (née Vega; born November 18, 1969) is an Panamanian-American actress, dancer, and singer-songwriter. She is best known for originating the roles of Mimi Marquez in the 1996 premiere of the Broadway musical Rent and Lucy in the 2007 premiere of the Off-Broadway play Jack Goes Boating.

  6. Jesse L. Martin - Wikipedia

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    Ally McBeal ' s creator, David E. Kelley, attended Rent ' s Broadway premiere and remembered Martin when the show needed a new boyfriend for the title character. His performance as Dr. Greg Butters on Ally McBeal caught the attention of David Duchovny , who cast Martin as a baseball-playing alien in a 1999 episode of The X-Files titled " The ...

  7. Rent (film) - Wikipedia

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    Rent is a 2005 American musical drama film directed by Chris Columbus. It is an adaptation of Jonathan Larson 's 1996 Broadway musical of the same name , in turn based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini , Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa , which is itself based on the 1851 novel Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henri Murger .

  8. Idina Menzel on screen and stage - Wikipedia

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    She rose to prominence for playing Maureen Johnson in the Broadway production of Rent. She also originated the role of Elphaba in Wicked and later had a cameo in the motion picture adaptation. [1] [2] [3] Apart from musical theatre, Menzel has appeared in motion pictures and television shows.

  9. Renée Elise Goldsberry - Wikipedia

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    Her other Broadway credits include Mimi Marquez in Rent (1996), Nettie Harris in the original cast of The Color Purple (2005), and Kate in the David Lindsay-Abaire play Good People (2011). On television, she portrayed Evangeline Williamson on One Life to Live , for which she received two nominations for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding ...