Rent: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical (85 page)

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(As the finale grows, the entire COMPANY makes its way onstage.)

(Mark's film resumes, along with two more films projecting on the back wall, "Scenes from Rent ...")

 

Biographies

JONATHAN LARSON (book, music, and lyrics) received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Rent. He also won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 1994 Richard Rodgers Award for Rent and twice received The Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation's Commendation Award. In 1988, he won the Richard Rodgers Development Grant for his rock musical Superbia, which was staged at Playwrights Horizon. In 1989, he was granted the Stephen Sondheim Award from the American Music Theatre Festival, where he contributed to the musical Sitting on the Edge of the Future. He composed the score for the musical J.P. Morgan Saves the Nation, which was presented by En Garde Arts in 1995. Mr. Larson performed his rock monologue tick, tick ... BOOM! at Second Stage Theatre, the Village Gate, and New York Theatre Workshop. In addition to scoring and songwriting for Sesame Street, he created music for a number of children's book-cassettes, including Steven Spielberg's An American Tail and The Land Before Time. Other film scores include work for Rolling Stone magazine publisher Jann Wenner. He conceived, directed, and wrote four original songs for Away We Go!, a musical video for children. Rent, his rock opera based on La Boheme, had its world premiere on February 13, 1996, at New York Theatre Workshop. Mr. Larson died unexpectedly of an aortic aneurysm on January 25, 1996, ten days before his thirty-sixth birthday.

VICTORIA LEACOCK HOFFMAN (Introduction) is a producer, filmmaker, and writer. She collaborated with Jonathan Larson, the creator of Rent, for over a decade. In 2001, she produced Larson's award-winning musical tick, tick ... BOOM! Off-Broadway. She directed the music video "Kiki and Herb: Total Eclipse of the Heart" and is executive producer of the CD Kiki and Herb Will Die for You at Carnegie Hall. Her book Signature Flowers: A Revealing Collection of Celebrity Drawings was released in 1998. She co-founded Love Heals, the Alison Gertz Foundation for AIDS Education and is a founding board member of the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation. She is currently producing the feature film I Heard That by her husband Cal Hoffman.

Table of Contents

The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical

Introduction: Rent Is Real by Victoria Leacock Hoffman .............................................

Cast and Credits (Original Broadway Performance) .........................................xv

Musical Numbers .....................................................................xix

Act One ......................................................................................1

Act Two

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