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Critical Review of Rent.
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Carlos Valcarcel Prof. Shulman DNY 1000C 17 November 2003 Critical Review of Rent Rent, a modern musical about life and death that takes place in New York's East Village, populated by drug dealers and society's forgotten, which is loosely based on Puccini's La Boheme. Rent is part Broadway musical, part performance art, and part rock concert. These three seemingly different elements are entertainingly merged in Rent. Rent chronicles the lives, loves and deaths of its major characters from December 24th through the next Christmas and into the following year. Rent deals with AIDS, drugs, homosexuality, and loss. Loss of innocence, loss of life, loss of work, loss of hope, you name it. Rent is as gritty as its subject matter. It doesn't hide a thing. On November 3rd, 2003 I, along with my fellow classmates, attended the Broadway musical Rent, by Jonathon Larson, at the Nederlander Theatre in New York City, New York. Entering...
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