The original Broadway production of "Rent" opened at the Nederlander Theater 10 years ago this Saturday.
Chelsea Piers, which currently pays $3.5 million a year in rent, opened in 1995, three years before the State Legislature created the Hudson River Park.
'RENT' In the 11 years since "Rent" opened on Broadway, much has changed in the world that its writer, Jonathan Larson, described.
Given that he died of an aortic aneurysm at 35 (shortly before "Rent" opened), you might expect a slightly prurient morbidity.
Given that the composer died of an aortic aneurysm at 35 (shortly before "Rent" opened), you might expect a slightly prurient morbidity.
(It was a job he kept for several months after "Rent" opened, fearing that, as he put it, the "whole thing might burst").
No casting has been set for the Broadway run but executives involved with the production said they believe that Mr. Chanler-Berat, at least, is likely to return as Peter ("Rent" opened in August).
Today's Blakes and Penns, born in the late 1980s, had not hit puberty when "Rent" opened on Broadway in 1996, after it scorched its way into history at its Off Broadway premiere at the New York Theater Workshop.
When "Rent" opened at New York Theater Workshop, the director, Michael Greif, the band and the cast, though anguished by Larson's death, had nearly achieved that difficult balance; the show had plenty of power, but you could hear almost all the lyrics.
Rent opened up my heart, my senses.
