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Description edit
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... read more
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Characters edit
- Mark Cohen: Narrator of this Rock Opera, Mark is the filmmaker wanna-be. He is Maureen's ex.
- Roger Davis: Roger is a songwriter who is HIV positive. He goes into withdrawal after his previous girlfriend, April, died. He comes out of withdrawal when he meets his new love interest, Mimi.
- Mimi Márquez: Mimi is an exotic dancer who is HIV positive due to drug addiction. She helps Roger come back into the real world, and begins to fall in love with him.
- Tom Collins: Known as Collins, he is also HIV positive. He is gay and the love interest of Angel.
- Angel Dumott Schunard: An HIV positive drag queen, Angel is who keeps the group together.
- Maureen Johnson: Maureen is Mark's ex, because she leaves him "for a lawyer named Joanne." Maureen is a performance artist.
- Joanne Jefferson: A lesbian lawyer, Joanne is Maureen's love interest. Joanne can sometimes be uptight.
- Benny Coffin: The partial antagonist, Benny wants to remove the lot where Mark and Roger live to create a cyber studio.
- Jonathan Larson: Add a description of this character.
- Jeffrey Seller
- Michael Greif
- Anthony Rapp
- Jonathan Burkhart
- Matthew O'grady
- Eddie Rosenstein
- Daphne Rubin-vega
- Julie Larson Mccollum
- Bernard Telsey
- Jim Nicola
- Gilles Chiasson
- Allan Gordon
- Wilson Jermaine Heredia
- Menzel
- Steve Skinner
- Jesse L. Martin
- Billy Aronson
- Adam Pascal
- Fredi Walker
- Kevin Mccollum
- Taye Diggs
- Marlies Yearby
- Stephen Sondheim
- Gwen Stewart
- Tim Weil
- Pam
- Paul Clay
- Anthony Tommasini
- Tony
Quotes edit
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“Oh lover, I'll cover you!”
Collins & Angel
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
"How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day" Mark, the filmmaker narrator of Rent, asks at the start of the show's title song.
Authors & Contributors edit
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First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0688154379
Page Count: 160
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0688154379
Page Count: 160
Awards edit
- Pulitzer Prize (1996: Drama)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 782.14
Subjects edit
- Books › Entertainment › Music › Theory, Composition & Performance › Songbooks › Opera
- Books › Entertainment › Music › Musical Genres › Opera
- Books › Arts & Photography › Performing Arts › Theater › History & Criticism
- Books › Arts & Photography › Performing Arts › Theater › Broadway & Musicals
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Drama › United States
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