Night Moves: Rent at the Academy of Music

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Night Moves: Rent at the Academy of Music

POSTED: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 10:23 PM
Filed Under: Arts | Night Moves
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Remember when Jonathan Larson's rock musical Rent was a youthful, fresh take on living with AIDS in New York City? And how innovative it was that Larson based it off of La Bohème, meshing the roughed-up city with Pucinni's flawless opera? Well, the production just turned 15, oldie. (And if that doesn't make you feel old, consider this quote from Larson: "[My dream is] to bring musical theater to the MTV generation." What would that mean today — a Hills musical?) Anyway, it's not on Broadway anymore. Thankfully, though, it's returning to the Academy of Music for five more nights, with three original cast members performing. Check it out before MTV — and Rent, for that matter — become relics of the past.

Tue, Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m., $25-$80, Academy of Music, Broad & Locust sts., 215-893-1930, kimmelcenter.org.

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