Rent: The Complete Book And Lyrics Of The Broadway Musical

Rent: The Complete Book And Lyrics Of The Broadway Musical

Finally, an authorized libretto to this modern day classic! Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score for Jonathan Larson. The story of Mark, Roger, Maureen, Tom Collins, Angel, Mimi, JoAnne, and their friends on the Lower East Side of New York City will live on, along with the affirmation that there is ?no day but today.? Includes 16 color photographs of productions of Rent from around the world, plus an introduction (?Rent Is Real?) by Victoria Leacock Hoffman. About the Author Jonathan Larson (1961-1996) died of an aortic aneurysm at the age of thirty-five after attending the final dress rehearsal of Rent at Off Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop on January 25, 1996. The rest is history. He is also the creator of tick, tick... BOOM!