Rent

The Resource Rent
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Rent
Statement of responsibility
Sony Pictures ; The Hot Ticket presents ; a @radical.media production ; book, music & lyrics by Jonathan Larson ; directed by Michael John Warren ; produced by Jon Kamen and Justin Wilkes
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  • Rent filmed live on Broadway
  • Rent filmed live on Broadway : the final performance
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  • eng
  • eng
  • fre
  • eng
Summary
This film captures the last Broadway performance of the long running rock musical RENT. Loosely based on Puccini's opera "La Bohème," it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Roommates, friends, lovers, at times enemies, the struggles of documentary filmmaker Mark, musician Roger, dancer Mimi, performance artist Maureen, public interest lawyer Joanne, teacher/anarchist Tom Collins and his drag queen lover Angel, with their sell-out landlord Benjamin "Benny" Coffin III revolve around the rent. As a year unfolds, they face a host of personal trials and begin coming to terms with the limits of their aspirations and relationships
Awards note
Tony Award winner, 2006: Best Actor (Wilson Jermaine Heredia) ; Best Musical ; Best Original Musical Score (Jonathan Heredia).
Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Originally directed for the stage by Michael Greif ; originally produced for the stage by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. Gordon, and New York Theatre Workshop ; director of photography, Declan Quinn ; edited by Edward Bishop, Josh Pearson, Adam "Zuk" Zuckerman ; musicians, David Truskinoff, Steve Mack, Bobby Baxmeyer, Jeff Potter, John Korba ; choreographed by Marlies Yearby ; set designer, Paul Clay ; costume designer, Angela Wendt ; lighting designer, Blake Burba
Date time place
Taped at the Nederlander Theatre, NYC; originally produced as a recorded performance in 2008
Intended audience
MPAA Rating: Not rated ; Canadian Home Video Rating: PG
Language note
In English with optional subtitles in English or French
PerformerNote
Will Chase (Roger Davis), Adam Kantor (Mark Cohen), Michael McElroy (Tom Collins), Rodney Hicks (Benjamin Coffin III), Tracie Thoms (Joanne Jefferson), Justin Johnston (Angel Schunard), Renèe Elise Goldsberry (Mimi Marquez), Eden Espinosa (Maureen Johnson), Tracy McDowell, Marcus Paul James, Gwen Stewart, Jay Wilkinson, Telly Leung, Shaun Earl, Andrea Goss
Runtime
152
Technique
live action
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