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Hello my dear zoners, Just to let you all know that rent will be broadcasting tomorrow on Jammin 85.3. If you have not yet had the opportunity to see this wonderful movie, tune in to watch it tomorrow. The broadcast will start at on ein the afternoon eastern standard time. We invite you to grab a drink and some popcorn and enjoy rent. When you here Seasons of Love, think of our lovely Triplets of love. (grin) Chat soon. And one more thing. After tomorrow, the weekend Jam will go back to normal. Starting next Saturday, the Jammin crew will be back on air. If you would like the remaining Potter books that have not been broadcast, please ask a jammin staff member for them.
Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning revolutionary rock opera Rent tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to express themselves through
their art and “measuring their lives in love.” Against the gritty backdrop of New York’s East Village, these friends strive for success and acceptance
while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
Rent’s diverse and unconventional community is made up of impassioned and defiant individuals. Roger (ADAM PASCAL) is an aspiring songwriter who has emotionally
shut down after his girlfriend’s suicide. Despite his attraction, he is reluctant to start a new romance with his downstairs neighbor Mimi Marquez (ROSARIO
DAWSON), an exotic dancer struggling with “baggage of her own.” Roger’s roommate Mark (ANTHONY RAPP) is a filmmaker trying to balance art and commerce.
His girlfriend Maureen (IDINA MENZEL), a self-indulgent performance artist, recently left him for a lawyer named Joanne (TRACIE THOMS).
Also part of this close-knit circle is Tom Collins (JESSE L. MARTIN), a professor of philosophy who, after being mugged, is rescued by his soul mate, a
high-spirited, street drummer, Angel Shunard (WILSON JERMAINE HEREDIA). Benny, (TAYE DIGGS), who alienated his friends after he married their landlord’s
daughter, has reneged on his promise to provide rent-free artist space to his bohemian friends. Once a close friend, he is now viewed as the enemy, threatening
them with eviction.
Inspired by Puccini’s classic opera “La Boheme,” “Rent” won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award,
four Tony Awards and three Drama Desk awards -- all following the tragic, untimely death of its creator, Jonathan Larson, who passed away of an aortic
aneurysm on the eve of the play’s first preview. The play went on to become a phenomenal success -- launching the careers of its stars and bringing a sense
of excitement back to Broadway by introducing a young and eager audience to a musical theater work that carried with it a message of hope and love.