
Summary
In these pages, "Rent" offers what most theater books can‘t: a chance to step behind the curtain and feel the electricity of a stage phenomenon as it unfolds.
"Rent" has single-handedly reinvigorated Broadway and taken America by storm. Sweeping all major theater awards, including the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama, as well as four 1996 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score for a Musical, "Rent" captures the …
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9780688154370 |
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ISBN-10: | 0688154379 |
Author: | Jonathan Larson |
Publisher: | It Books |
Imprint: | William Morrow |
Format: | Hardcover |
Number of Pages: | 160 |
Edition: | 1st |
Release Date: | 1 January 1999 |
Weight: | 1.42kg |
Dimensions: | 21mm x 239mm x 352mm |
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“The most exuberant and original American musical to come along this decade.”– “Time”Rent is the breakthrough musical for the 90’s.“– “Newsweek
About The Author
Jonathan Larson
Jonathan Larson won the Pulitzer Prize for “Rent, ” as well as Tony Awards for Best Book, Best Lyrics, and Best Musical, three Drama Desk Awards and numerous others. His “overnight success” came after fifteen years of writing, composing, and performing. He wrote the musical “Superbia” and the rock monologue “tick, tick…BOOM!” and composed a variety of music for children, including songs for “Sesame Street,” audio books, and the video “Away We Go!” Mr. Larson died unexpectedly of an aortic aneurysm on January 25, 1996, the night before “Rent”’s first performance. He was thirty-five.
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