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Highlights
- In these pages, Rent offers what most theater books can't: a chance to step behind the curtain and feel the electricity of a stage phenomenon as it unfolds.Rent has single-handedly reinvigorated Broadway and taken America by storm.
- Pulitzer Prize (Drama/Theater) 1996 1st Winner, Lambda Literary Awards (Drama/Theater) 1997 4th Winner
- Author(s): Jonathan Larson
- 160 Pages
- Performing Arts, Theater
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About the Book
Sweeping all major theater awards, including the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and four 1996 Tony Awards, "Rent" captures the heart and spirit of a generation, reflecting it onstage through the emotion of its stirring lyrics and the energy of its young cast. Here, in vivid color photos, the complete libretto, original artwork, show artifacts, and oral history, "Rent" comes to life with the behind-the-scenes story of the show's creation.Book Synopsis
In these pages, Rent offers what most theater books can't: a chance to step behind the curtain and feel the electricity of a stage phenomenon as it unfolds.Rent has single-handedly reinvigorated Broadway and taken America by storm. Sweeping all major theater awards, including the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama, as well as 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 behind-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 extraordinary talent behind 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 the more poignant.
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In these pages, Rent offers what most theater books can't: a chance to step behind the curtain and feel the electricity of a stage phenomenon as it unfolds. Rent captures the heart and spirit of a generation, reflecting 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 a behind-the-scenes oral history of the show's creation.Review Quotes
"The most exuberant and original American musical to come along this decade."-- "Time"Rent is the breakthrough musical for the 90's."-- "Newsweek