No experience quite matches the thrill of a live Broadway
spectacular seen up close and in person. Now, this stunning
performance in High Definition puts you in the front row as
the smash hit RENT brings down the curtain on its history-making,
12-year run! You've never had seats this great...never seen and
heard each character so ly...never shared every emotion
in such a personal way! After winning four Tony Awards® and the
Pulitzer Prize, Jonathan Larson's powerhouse musical tour de
force entered the record books as the 7th-longest-running show in
all Broadway history. In this unforgettable theatrical experience
- made possible by special arrangement with the Broadway
producers and Actors Equity Association - take an
journey through a single year in the lives of a small circle of
friends and artists living their dreams, battling their demons
and celebrating life on the streets of New York City's East
Village. Meet would-be filmmaker Mark, sweet transvestite Angel
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For passionate fans of Rent--the popular Broadway rock musical
that updated La Boheme with electric guitars, steel drums,
strippers, and drag queens--Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway is a
must-have.Written and composed by Jonathan Larson (who died
suddenly of an aortic aneurysm just before the show premiered),
Rent follows an absurdly clean-cut gaggle of hipster artists who,
after having been squatting in a run-down building for a year,
are now being told they have to pay that rent by the building's
owner, a former friend. At least, that's the plot point that
launches everything; really, the musical is about modern romance,
grappling with AIDS, and celebrating the creative spirit. This
film documents the last performance of the Broadway production,
which ran for 12 years. Though the aggressive camera moves and
sometimes frenetic editing seem intended to make the film feel
less stagebound, this Rent first and foremost captures the stage
experience. The production's raw set and self-conscious
theatricality (which highfalutin' theater folk might call
"Brechtian") creates genuine show-biz razzle-dazzle and helps
distract from some of the cliches in the musical itself. There
are no famous faces (the closest is Tracie Thoms, who played the
same role, the lesbian lover of a performance artist, in the
movie version), but the cast is solid and exuberant, throwing
themselves wholeheartedly into the show's unapologetically
sincere paeans to life and love. --Bret Fetzer
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