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      • Jonathan Larson’s musical Rent offers a fictional representation of an HIVpositi ve community. Four of the musical’s seven main characters are HIVpositive, and each appears to hold a different life perspective after discovering that he or she has HIV.
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  2. Jan 28, 2019 · Seven years after the novel’s release, Schulman saw Rent for the first and last time. Jonathan Larson, the musical’s creator, had died the night before the show's first preview at only 35 years old. Schulman says that she, like many others, assumed he'd died of AIDS.

  3. Tuberculosis, the plague of Puccini's opera, is replaced by HIV/AIDS in Rent; 1800s Paris is replaced by New York's East Village in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

  4. Jonathon Larsons smash-hit rock musical is back in the UK for 2024. Rent follows a group of young artists living in Manhattan’s East Village as they navigate love, loss, and the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS.

  5. Feb 5, 2019 · HIV/AIDS is an integral part of “Rent” that Larson included in the musical to demand social change. Throughout the play, the audience learns about the characters’ struggle to stay healthy, their lack of resources to get help and how one gets the disease.

  6. Jan 25, 2021 · On Jan. 25, 1996, a new rock musical by a little-known writer, Jonathan Larson, gave its first performance. Friends and family filed into a small off-Broadway theater to see Rent. The show...

  7. Based on Puccini’s beloved opera La Bohème, Rent follows the ups and downs of a year in the life of a group of impoverished, artistic friends living in Manhattan’s East Village. Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, struggles to find his place in the world; his roommate Roger, an HIV-positive musician, wonders how he will leave his mark before he dies.

  8. The 1996 hit musical Rent, written by Jonathan Larson, was a landmark show that brought the stories of queer young people during the AIDS epidemic to the stage, and to the attention of the nation, when it first debuted on Broadway.

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