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Rent [videorecording] / Sony Pictures ; The Hot Ticket presents ; a @radical.media production ; book, music & lyrics by Jonathan Larson ; directed by Michael John Warren ; produced by Jon Kamen and Justin Wilkes.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 29791 | Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Subtitle language: English, French Publication details: Culver City, CA : Columbia Pictures Industries : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2009.Description: 1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1435957679
  • 9781435957671
Other title:
  • Title on disc label and container: Rent : filmed live on Broadway
Contained works:
  • Larson, Jonathan Rent
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Bonus features: "Rent: the final days on Broadway" -- The final curtain call -- The wall -- The final lottery.
Production credits:
  • Originally directed for the stage by Michael Greif ; originally produced for the stage by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. Gordon, and New York Theatre Workshop ; director of photography, Declan Quinn ; edited by Edward Bishop, Josh Pearson, Adam "Zuk" Zuckerman ; musicians, David Truskinoff, Steve Mack, Bobby Baxmeyer, Jeff Potter, John Korba ; choreographed by Marlies Yearby ; set designer, Paul Clay ; costume designer, Angela Wendt ; lighting designer, Blake Burba.
Cast: Will Chase (Roger Davis), Adam Kantor (Mark Cohen), Michael McElroy (Tom Collins), Rodney Hicks (Benjamin Coffin III), Tracie Thoms (Joanne Jefferson), Justin Johnston (Angel Schunard), Renèe Elise Goldsberry (Mimi Marquez), Eden Espinosa (Maureen Johnson), Tracy McDowell, Marcus Paul James, Gwen Stewart, Jay Wilkinson, Telly Leung, Shaun Earl, Andrea Goss.Summary: This film captures the last Broadway performance of the long running rock musical RENT. Loosely based on Puccini's opera "La Bohème," it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Roommates, friends, lovers, at times enemies, the struggles of documentary filmmaker Mark, musician Roger, dancer Mimi, performance artist Maureen, public interest lawyer Joanne, teacher/anarchist Tom Collins and his drag queen lover Angel, with their sell-out land lord Benjamin "Benny" Coffin III revolve around the rent. As a year unfolds, they face a host of personal trials and begin coming to terms with the limits of their aspirations and relationships.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD MUSIC Rent Available 33111007436724
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A group of East Village bohemians struggle to live their lives and pay the rent on time in this filmed performance of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer and Tony award-winning Broadway musical. With success and acceptance always just out of reach, these starving artists must do their best to remain optimistic about the future while contending with such formidable obstacles as poverty and the growing AIDS epidemic. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Bonus features: Featurettes: Rent: the final days on Broadway (37 min.); The final curtain call (8 min.); The wall (6 min.); The final lottery (9 min.); National Marfan Foundation PSA (1 min.); Previews (6 min.).

Taped at the Nederlander Theatre, NYC; originally produced as a recorded performance in 2008.

Bonus features: "Rent: the final days on Broadway" -- The final curtain call -- The wall -- The final lottery.

Originally directed for the stage by Michael Greif ; originally produced for the stage by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. Gordon, and New York Theatre Workshop ; director of photography, Declan Quinn ; edited by Edward Bishop, Josh Pearson, Adam "Zuk" Zuckerman ; musicians, David Truskinoff, Steve Mack, Bobby Baxmeyer, Jeff Potter, John Korba ; choreographed by Marlies Yearby ; set designer, Paul Clay ; costume designer, Angela Wendt ; lighting designer, Blake Burba.

Will Chase (Roger Davis), Adam Kantor (Mark Cohen), Michael McElroy (Tom Collins), Rodney Hicks (Benjamin Coffin III), Tracie Thoms (Joanne Jefferson), Justin Johnston (Angel Schunard), Renèe Elise Goldsberry (Mimi Marquez), Eden Espinosa (Maureen Johnson), Tracy McDowell, Marcus Paul James, Gwen Stewart, Jay Wilkinson, Telly Leung, Shaun Earl, Andrea Goss.

This film captures the last Broadway performance of the long running rock musical RENT. Loosely based on Puccini's opera "La Bohème," it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Roommates, friends, lovers, at times enemies, the struggles of documentary filmmaker Mark, musician Roger, dancer Mimi, performance artist Maureen, public interest lawyer Joanne, teacher/anarchist Tom Collins and his drag queen lover Angel, with their sell-out land lord Benjamin "Benny" Coffin III revolve around the rent. As a year unfolds, they face a host of personal trials and begin coming to terms with the limits of their aspirations and relationships.

MPAA Rating: Not rated ; Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.

DVD; Region 1; 5.1 Dolby digital surround; anamorphic widescreen presentation, 1.78:1 aspect ratio.

In English with optional subtitles in English or French; closed-captioned.

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