Rent Closes
Rent ClosesIt's not every day I write about a Broadway show that's just closed, but then Rent was not your average Broadway show.
After 5,124 performances, the late Jonathan Larson's little tuner that infused the Main Stem with an amped up downtown mojo finally closed at the Nederlander Theatre Sunday evening. Credit the cast with dedicating their final performance to Larson.
All is not lost for those mourning the loss of Rent from the Great White Way. First, there's the 2005 film version that forever immortalizes most of the original Broadway cast on celluloid. Then, there's a Sony Pictures' The Hot Ticket film version of the final performance that will be shown in select movie theatres for a special limited engagement September 24, 25, 27 and 28.
And then there's the touring production of Rent that begins anew this January in Cleveland. Headlined by Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp in a bit of a farewell victory lap, the tour will crisscross the United States for 30 weeks before heading to Japan's Akasaka Act Theatre and then to South Korea.
The Tony-winning Best Musical of 1996 is now history. But I'm sure it will live again another day.
This is Steve On Broadway (SOB).
Labels: Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Broadway, Closings, Japan, Musical, Rent, South Korea, Touring Production
posted by Steve On Broadway (SOB) @ Tuesday, September 09, 2008
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