Rent (1996 Original Broadway Cast)

Rent (1996 Original Broadway Cast)

Rent (1996 Original Broadway Cast)
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Brand: DreamWorks
Composer: Jonathan Larson
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1996-08-27
Music Label: Dreamworks
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Tune up #1
  2. Voice Mail #1 - Anthony Rapp
  3. Tune up #2
  4. Rent
  5. You Okay Honey?
  6. Tune up #3
  7. One Song Glory
  8. Light My Candle
  9. Voice Mail #2
  10. Today 4 U - Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Daphne Rubin-Vega
  11. You'll See - Aiko Nakasone, Anthony Rapp
  12. Tango: Maureen - Taye Diggs, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp
  13. Life Support
  14. Out Tonight - Idina Menzel, Anthony Rapp
  15. Another Day
  16. Will I? - Adam Pascal, Daphne Rubin-Vega
  17. On the Street - Aiko Nakasone
  18. Santa Fe - Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Daphne Rubin-Vega
  19. I'll Cover You - Jesse L. Martin
  20. We're Okay - Taye Diggs, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Daphne Rubin-Vega
  21. Christmas Bells - Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp
  22. Over the Moon - Aiko Nakasone, Byron Utley
  23. Vie Boheme
  24. I Should Tell You - Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp
  25. Vie Boheme B - Adam Pascal
Music CD 2
  1. Seasons of Love - Jesse L. Martin, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Daphne Rubin-Vega
  2. Happy New Year - Stevie Wonder, Cast
  3. Voice Mail #3
  4. Happy New Year B
  5. Take Me or Leave Me
  6. Seasons of Love B
  7. Without You
  8. Voice Mail #4
  9. Contact
  10. I'll Cover You (Reprise)
  11. Halloween
  12. Goodbye Love
  13. What You Own
  14. Voice Mail #5
  15. Finale
  16. Your Eyes
  17. Finale B
  18. Seasons of Love

Free Music Notes for Rent (1996 Original Broadway Cast)

Free Music Review: RENT
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Into Broadway's creative vacuum of revivals, movie adaptations, and Hollywood star vehicles comes Rent, the story of squatters, junkies, performance artists, struggling musicians, drag queens, aspiring filmmakers, and HIV-positives (and you thought Miss Saigon's helicopter landing was cool). Undoubtedly among the defining pop cultural events of 1996, Rent has already won four Tony awards and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. More importantly, it threatens to bring substance back to the Great White Way.

Transposing Puccini's 100-year-old opera La Boh?me into modern day Bohemia (19th-century Paris's Left Bank becomes late-20th-century New York's East Village where the scourge of tuberculosis becomes the plague of AIDS) Rent celebrates life among the young, sick, and unconventional. While Broadway shows are hardly the place for authentic portrayals of the latest marginalized hipsters, composer Jonathan Larson (who died at age 36, days before his musical opened) managed to sculpt vivid characters and scenes that bring Avenue A as close as it will ever come to 42nd Street. And by telling a socially relevant story of living without the guarantee of a future (renting, that is), Larson does his own little bit to define an X'ed generation. At worst, Rent is the Hair of the '90s.

For the majority of us who won't be seeing Rent anytime soon, the Original Cast Recording is more than just an after-show souvenir. Well-packaged with a complete libretto, the two-CD set is a worthwhile album separate of live performance. Full of songs that are funny and catchy, inspiring and touching, smart and hip and not overly sentimental, Rent mixes showtune pop with elements of rock, R&B, dance, gospel, and tango to make one of the best albums of the year--certainly the best rock opera in decades. La vie boh?me, indeed. --Roni Sarig

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