Rent (edit title)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Rent Friday, October 30 2009.

• "How"How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day"day" Mark, the filmmaker narrator of Rent, asks at the start of the show's title song.

Amanda approved 85% of Timothy Gray’s request to combine 7 books, including Rent, Friday, October 30 2009. (show what wasn’t approved) (hide what wasn’t approved)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the contributors of Rent Thursday, October 22 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Edited a contributor: Evelyn McDonnell: (Primary Author)
• Edited a contributor: Kathy Silberger: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Larry Fink: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Stewart Ferebee: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Kate Giel: (Primary None)

Timothy Gray edited the awards of Rent Thursday, October 22 2009.

• Added an award: Pulitzer Prize
• Added category of an award: Pulitzer Prize Drama
• Added year of an award: Pulitzer Prize 1996

Timothy Gray edited the contributors of Rent Thursday, October 22 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Edited a contributor: Evelyn McDonnell: (Primary Author)
• Edited a contributor: Kathy Silberger: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Larry Fink: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Stewart Ferebee: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Kate Giel: (Primary None)

Timothy Gray submitted a request to combine 7 books, including Rent, Thursday, October 22 2009.

|THEbutler| edited the quotations of Rent Sunday, August 9 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “"OhOh lover, I'll cover you!"you!”Collins & Angel

|THEbutler| edited the quotations of Rent Sunday, August 9 2009.

• Added a quotation: “"Oh lover, I'll cover you!"”Collins & Angel

|THEbutler| edited the characters of Rent Sunday, August 9 2009.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters
• Added the description of Mark Cohen: Narrator of this Rock Opera, Mark is the filmmaker wanna-be. He is Maureen's ex.
• marked the description of Mark Cohen as not a spoiler
• Added the description of 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.
• marked the description of Roger Davis as not a spoiler
• Added the description of 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.
• marked the description of Mimi Márquez as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Tom Collins: Known as Collins, he is also HIV positive. He is gay and the love interest of Angel.
• marked the description of Tom Collins as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Angel Dumott Schunard: An HIV positive drag queen, Angel is who keeps the group together. After he (she) dies, the group begins to fall apart.
• Added the spoiler-free description of Angel Dumott Schunard: An HIV positive drag queen, Angel is who keeps the group together.
• marked the description of Angel Dumott Schunard as a spoiler
• Added the description of Maureen Johnson: Maureen is Mark's ex, because she leaves him "for a lawyer named Joanne." Maureen is a performance artist.
• marked the description of Maureen Johnson as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Joanne Jefferson: A lesbian lawyer, Joanne is Maureen's love interest. Joanne can sometimes be uptight.
• marked the description of Joanne Jefferson as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Benny Coffin: The partial antagonist, Benny wants to remove the lot where Mark and Roger live to create a cyber studio.
• marked the description of Benny Coffin as not a spoiler

Shelfari edited the description of Rent Tuesday, August 4 2009.

• 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.