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Poindexter "Fool" Williams is a resident of a Los Angeles ghetto.He and his family are being evicted from their apartment by their landlords, the Robesons. The Robesons, believed to be a married couple, call themselves Mommy and Daddy, and buy poorly maintained apartment buildings, purposefully raising the rent to evict the occupants so they can sell the buildings to gentrifiers.
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 .
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.
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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 ...
Rent: Live is an American television special that was broadcast by Fox on January 27, 2019. It is a partially live [a] production of the 1996 Tony Award-winning musical Rent, which 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 Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
As income inequality grows and affluent renters spread into previously marginal neighborhoods, the poor are being pushed out. Radical opponents of gentrification are taking to the streets in protest.
Adam Pascal (born October 25, 1970) is an American actor, singer, and musician, known for his performance as Roger Davis in the original 1996 cast of Jonathan Larson's musical Rent on Broadway, the 2005 movie version of the musical, and the Broadway tour of Rent in 2009.