RENT

Rent
Broadway promotional poster
Music	Jonathan Larson
Lyrics	Jonathan Larson
Book	Jonathan Larson
Basis	La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
Productions	1993 Workshop 1996 Off-Broadway 1996 Broadway 1996 Angel Tour 1997 Benny Tour 1997 Collins Tour 1998 West End 1998 Tokyo 1998 Sydney 1999 Mexico City 1999 São Paulo 1999 Barcelona 2000 Dublin 2001 UK Tour 2001 Non-Equity Tour 2001 West End 2002 Gothenburg 2005 International Tour 2005 Film 2007 West End 2008 Buenos Aires 2009 US Tour 2010 Hollywood Bowl 2011 Off-Broadway 2016 Barcelona 2016 20th-Anniversary US Tour 2016 20th-Anniversary UK Tour 2016 São Paulo 2016 London
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for Drama Tony Award for Best Musical Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical Tony Award for Best Original Score Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics

Rent is a rock musical with music, lyrics and book by Jonathan Larson, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.

The musical was first seen in a workshop production at New York Theatre Workshop in 1993. This same Off-Broadway theatre was also the musical's initial home following its official 1996 opening. The show's creator, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly of an aortic dissection, believed to have been caused by undiagnosed Marfan syndrome, the night before the Off-Broadway premiere. The show won a Pulitzer Prize, and the production was a hit. The musical moved to Broadway's larger Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996.

On Broadway, Rent gained critical acclaim and won a Tony Award for Best Musical among other awards. The Broadway production closed on September 7, 2008 after a 12-year run of 5,123 performances. On February 14, 2016, the musical Wicked surpassed Rent's number of performances with a 2pm matinee, pushing Rent from the tenth- to eleventh-longest-running Broadway show. The production grossed over $280 million.

The success of the show led to several national tours and numerous foreign productions. In 2005, it was adapted into a motion picture featuring most of the original cast members.