Rent

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In these pages, Rent offers what most theater books can’t: an opportunity to step at the back of the curtain and feel the electricity of a stage phenomenon as it unfolds.

Rent has single-handedly reinvigorated Broadway and taken The usa by storm. Sweeping all major theater awards, including the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama, in addition to four 1996 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score for a Musical, Rent captures the heart and spirit of a generation, refleting it onstage through the emotion of its stirring words and music, and the energy of its young cast. Now, for the first time, Rent comes to life on the page — through vivid color photographs, the full libretto, and an utterly compelling at the back of-the-scenes oral history of the show’s creation. Here is the exclusive and absolutely complete companion to Rent, told in the voices of the ordinary talent at the back of its success: the actors, the director, the producers, and the librettist and composer himself, Jonathan Larson, whose sudden death, on the eve of the first performance, has made Rent’s life-affirming message all of the more poignant.
This is by far the will have to-get theater book of the year. With dazzling punk graphics as a way to quickly win book industry awards, the volume contains all the libretto of the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning musical about love and loyalty among starving AIDS-stricken artists in New York’s East Village. But editors Evelyn McDonnell and Katherine Silberger wisely remember the fact that the story of the show’s creation is as compelling as the musical itself–so more than half of this volume is devoted to an oral history of the composer/lyricist/librettist Jonathan Larson, who came to New York hoping to revolutionize musical theater–then died of an aortic aneurysm the night of the show’s final preview. It’s an event book for an event musical.


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