Aronson and Larson made an agreement that if the show went to Broadway, Aronson would share in the proceeds. In 1991, he asked Aronson if he could use Aronson's original concept and make Rent his own. Larson made the suggestion to set the play in Greenwich Village, the artsy avant-garde neighborhood of Manhattan where he lived, and also came up with the show's ultimate title (a decision that Aronson was unhappy with, at least until Larson pointed out that "rent" also means torn apart). In 1988, playwright Billy Aronson wanted to create "a musical based on Puccini's La Bohème, in which the luscious splendor of Puccini's world would be replaced with the coarseness and noise of modern New York." In 1989 Jonathan Larson, a 29-year-old composer, began collaborating with Aronson on this project, and the two composed a few songs together, including "Santa Fe", "Rent", and "I Should Tell You". Certain plot elements were changed slightly, and some of the songs were changed to spoken dialogue. In 2005, Rent was also adapted into a motion picture that features most of the original cast members. After a 12 year run, the Broadway production of Rent will close on June 1, 2008. It became the second longest-running musical currently on Broadway, eight years behind The Phantom of the Opera, when Beauty and the Beast ended its run on July 29, 2007. With more than 4,300 performances, it is the seventh longest-running Broadway show, and the production has grossed over $280 million.
Rent has been successful on Broadway, where it had critical acclaim and word-of-mouth popularity. On January 26, 1996, Rent opened in New York City off-broadway before moving to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996. The musical was first seen at the New York Theatre Workshop in 1994.
Rent brought controversial topics to a traditionally conservative medium, and it helped to increase the popularity of musical theater among the younger generation. In addition, its cast was very ethnically diverse. Rent, which won a Tony Award for Best Musical and a Pulitzer Prize, among other awards, was one of the first Broadway musicals to feature bisexual and transgender characters. 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 the Bohemian East Village, under the shadow of AIDS. Rent is a romance musical, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. This article is about the 1996 Broadway rock opera.
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