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 | Title : Rent (1996 Original Broadway Cast)
Author : Larson, Jonathan
Release Date : 19960827
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $32.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Into Broadway's creative vacuum of revivals, movie adaptations, and Hollywood star vehicles comes Rent, the story of squatters, junkies, performance artists, struggling musicians, drag queens, aspiring filmmakers, and HIV-positives (and you thought Miss Saigon's helicopter landing was cool). Undoubtedly among the defining pop cultural events of 1996, Rent has already won four Tony awards and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. More importantly, it threatens to bring substance back to the Great White Way.
Transposing Puccini's 100-year-old opera La Bohème into modern day Bohemia (19th-century Paris's Left Bank becomes late-20th-century New York's East Village where the scourge of tuberculosis becomes the plague of AIDS) Rent celebrates life among the young, sick, and unconventional. While Broadway shows are hardly the place for authentic portrayals of the latest marginalized hipsters, composer Jonathan Larson (who died at age 36, days before his musical opened) managed to sculpt vivid characters and scenes that bring Avenue A as close as it will ever come to 42nd Street. And by telling a socially relevant story of living without the guarantee of a future (renting, that is), Larson does his own little bit to define an X'ed generation. At worst, Rent is the Hair of the '90s.
For the majority of us who won't be seeing Rent anytime soon, the Original Cast Recording is more than just an after-show souvenir. Well-packaged with a complete libretto, the two-CD set is a worthwhile album separate of live performance. Full of songs that are funny and catchy, inspiring and touching, smart and hip and not overly sentimental, Rent mixes showtune pop with elements of rock, R&B, dance, gospel, and tango to make one of the best albums of the year--certainly the best rock opera in decades. La vie bohème, indeed.
Buyer Reviews :
RENT!!! What can I say about this musical that hasn't already been said. It really is a masterpiece. It's seems that some people feel you can either like this or you can like an Andrew L. Webber type musical. That's wrong. 'The Phantom of the Opera' and 'Les Misrables' are two of my favorite musiclas. RENT is another one. It is so different. The way Jonathan Larson was able to convay pure emotion so clearly just blows my mind. You don't have to have AIDS or be struggling with sexuality. Or be a struggling artist to get it or even identify with it. And the vocals on this album are astounding. Adam Pascal (roger), Anthony Rapp (mark), Fredi Walker (joanne), Taye Diggs (benny), Daphne Rubin-Vega (mimi), Idina Menzel (maureen), Wilson Heredia (angel), and Jesse Martin (collins) Have the best voices ever. You really believe they are these people. My God. It brings tears to my eyes everytime I listen to it. I could go on and on about the sheer perfection of this album but I would still not be able to come close to explaining how wonderful this album really is. It's impossable to listen too without feeling a tide of emotion. 'Measure Your Life In Love'
(by A music fan)
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